Design Manager

Description

• Lead and manage meetings as necessary to communicate progress, solicit feedback, and develop design according to agreed schedule. This would include, but not limited to, the following: Owner Meetings with Design Team, User meetings that will be arranged with Owner input, preplanned as needed, Design Coordination Meetings – Weekly to coordinate design, discuss progress issues and alert the team to potential scope creep, Project Management Meetings - Internal (Evans/Designer Management – weekly & bi-weekly with Owner management team, Sustainability meetings: biweekly or monthly as needed depending on project phase.
• Develop and manage design decisions log as a live document outlining issues, identifying risk exposures and actions. Update the log regularly to report on design status, take corrective measures and record decisions.
• Develop a Design Execution Plan that will guide the teams and allow Evans to know when the schedule is slipping or when scope is underdeveloped. The design execution plan will include a live tracking schedule with task dependencies in tandem with a design workplan outlining biweekly measurable activities that are reviewed in Owner/ consultant meetings to obtain Owner feedback and gauge progress.
• Support engagement of design resources through solicitation of proposals for design services. Evaluate proposals and support the development of contract documents for a design agreement.
• Develop and manage design execution plan including, but not limited to, scheduling in Microsoft Project, BIM execution plan, key workflows, RFI’s, submittals, design review, and permit submittal.
• Review project with key stakeholders and work collaboratively to solve issues and clear roadblocks in real time so that the entire team can meet the schedule with an aligned level of completeness.
• Track and report design progress against fee to project stakeholders. Review consultants and subconsultants design hours or fee spent to gauge percent complete on activities and deliverables and track earned value of the design services.
• Prior to kickoff, examine available information from the Owner to identify potential gaps, confirm scope and deliverables, engage the appropriate stakeholders, establish communications, and devise a regular schedule of goal-oriented meetings.
• Lead design kick off meeting to align design resources and engage the Owner group to establish the overarching design principles governing the project as well as critical issues and milestones.

Requirements

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance