Design Manager - Advanced Delivery

Overview

Leads design-construction integration for advanced delivery projects, ensuring constructability.

Key Responsibilities

• issue tracking
• vdc integration
• risk management
• design qa
• schedule mgmt
• client liaison

Tasks

-Facilitate design charrettes, team chartering, and owner approval processes. -Ensure Health & Safety integration: complete Safety Risk Assessments, introduce Hierarchy of Controls, and incorporate logistics planning into design. -Coordinate permitting process and maintain related schedules. -Oversee design progression to ensure alignment with budget, schedule, and constructability; lead target value design. -Develop and maintain design deliverable schedules aligned with procurement and build phases. -Maintain tools for tracking design issues and changes. -Monitor and document design changes, minimizing scope creep. -Ensure design team responsiveness to field issues and facilitate risk-mitigating solutions. -May support preconstruction, estimating, or procurement as needed. -Ensure effective coordination between the VDC (Virtual Design & Construction) team and the design team to align digital modeling, clash detection, and constructability reviews with project goals. -Collaborate with estimating to break down RFPs and support subcontractor/vendor pricing. -Define technical scope, manage RFIs, and ensure comprehensive bridging documents. -Oversee and validate design team invoices. -Lead design risk management, including cost-benefit analyses for RFIs and changes. -Improve documentation of design basis and assumptions. -Resolve scope conflicts and develop recovery plans as needed. -Validate A/E scope and fee structure; support Teaming Agreements. -Lead strategy for design services breakdown and integration of specialty consultants or design/build trades. -Assist in trade contractor/supplier scope definition and procurement. -Provide feedback for future bids and risk assessments. -Support development of construction budgets from design estimates. -Promote a design-build mindset and collaboration between disciplines. -Oversee design QA/QC for regulatory and standards compliance. -Emphasize the importance of delivering the proposed design and managing scope changes. -Assemble and maintain the Endorsed Project Baseline (proposal, estimate, contract, schedule). -Communicate design scope and intent to construction teams. -Identify and communicate requirements to clarify RFPs for design and construction. -Serve as primary liaison between design and construction teams during proposals.

Requirements

• design software
• 10+ years
• bachelor's
• risk management
• advanced delivery
• leadership

What You Bring

-Experience with Assumptions Management, Change Management, requirement tracking, and Corrective Action Programs. -Proficiency in design and construction management software/tools. -Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, or related field; advanced degree preferred. -10+ years’ experience in design/project management for large-scale construction. -Collaborative leadership and influence -Risk identification and mitigation -Experience establishing and executing departmental processes and procedures. -Proven experience with advanced delivery models (Design-Build, IPD, P3, EPC). -Excellent communication, leadership, and team-building skills. -Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and drive consensus. -Strategic thinking and problem-solving -Strong understanding of design-to-budget, constructability, and risk management.

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Benefits

Gilbane offers an excellent total compensation package which includes competitive health and welfare benefits and a generous profit-sharing/401k plan. We invest in our employees’ education and have built Gilbane University into a top training organization in the construction industry. Qualified applicants who are offered a position must pass a pre-employment substance abuse test. For Baltimore, MD this ranges from $130,000.00 - $175,000.00 plus benefits and retirement program. For Arlington, VA this ranges from $145,000.00 - $195,000.00 plus benefits and retirement program

About Gilbane

-As a family-owned company, Gilbane has built a reputation for excellence and reliability, operating through its two main subsidiaries: Gilbane Building Company and Gilbane Development Company. -The Gilbane Building Company is renowned for its comprehensive construction services, which encompass construction management, preconstruction, and facilities management. -On the real estate front, Gilbane Development Company is dedicated to creating and implementing dynamic real estate programs that cater to public, private, and nonprofit sectors. The company excels in real estate development, investment, and property management, offering a full spectrum of services that include site selection, financing, and project management. -Gilbane's approach is characterized by a client-focused philosophy, where the company adapts its global knowledge to address local challenges effectively.

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Security Clearance

-must pass a pre-employment substance abuse test.