Senior Design Manager

Overview

Lead multi-discipline water/wastewater design projects, managing delivery, budget, and teams.

Key Responsibilities

• design management
• budgeting
• governance
• workforce planning
• technical scope
• project reporting

Tasks

-Project Governance: Clarify roles and responsibilities within the project team and ensure project compliance with the organization's wider program and/or portfolio management decision-making structures and processes. -Budgeting: Responsible for managing the engineering design budget and providing key inputs to the Project Controls team. -Project Delivery: Responsible for managing multi-disciplinary project delivery for municipal water/wastewater projects to produce a compliant, constructible design in accordance with Client requirements, Operation and Maintenance requirements and Construction requirements -Performance Management: Develop and propose own performance objectives; take appropriate actions to ensure achievement of agreed objectives, using the organization's performance management systems to improve personal performance. Or manage and report on team performance; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports or project/account team members and hold people accountable for achieving them, taking appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of team/personal objectives. -Workforce Planning: Manage the preparation of short-term and annual workforce plans, using existing analytical frameworks and tools to identify the number and mix of staff required to meet the demand forecast. -Organizational Capability Building: Use the organization's formal development framework to identify the team's individual development needs. Plan and implement actions to build their capabilities. Provide training or coaching to others throughout the organization in own area of expertise to enable others to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. -Design: Lead the creation and execution of design work plan and level of effort (LOE). Participate to continuously review and improve the overall project strategy to meet design schedule and budget with the ability to support staging and phasing requirements. Coordinate the preparation of the design criteria by the team leads. -Financial Management and Control: Develop and/or deliver a plan for significant aspects of the financial management and/or control process. Participate actively in the preparation and adherence to a schedule of deliverables in collaboration with the Project Controls team. -Technical Scope: Responsible for developing or verifying the technical scope of a project and working with disciplines to provide pricing during proposal, and subsequently work planning following project award to initiate design activities. -Leadership and Direction: Convenes, chairs, and documents interdisciplinary design coordination meetings and brings forward updates and any critical issues that impact external stakeholders to the Project Manager. Serve as liaison between the construction contract administrator and engineering team during construction. Coordinates multidisciplinary problem resolution resulting from non-compliance with drawings and specifications at the site. -Project Reporting and Review: Manage the project review process; provide stakeholders with accurate and relevant information and key recommendations at established review points to enable them to evaluate progress and agree on change.

Requirements

• design experience
• scheduling software
• b.sc.
• adaptability
• bim
• design management

What You Bring

-Technical proficiency and previous project design experience in one or more discipline (civil, structural, architectural, process mechanical, building mechanical, electrical, or instrumentation & control) considered an asset -Knowledge of scheduling software and engineering and capital cost estimating techniques is a definite asset. -Bachelor’s (B.Sc.) degree or equivalent from a recognized college or university -The ability to deal with uncertainty, changing and multiple priorities -Experience with Building Information Modelling (BIM) on multi-discipline projects -10+ years of design management experience on large ($50M+), multi-discipline engineering teams for municipal water/wastewater projects within Canada

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About Ghd

-With a focus on innovation, it integrates expertise across various sectors to deliver world-class solutions. -The organization is known for tackling large and complex projects, such as designing bridges and tunnels and constructing energy-efficient buildings. -Notable projects include infrastructure development for major cities and energy-efficient solutions for industrial facilities. -The organization continues to expand its digital and technological capabilities to ensure solutions are cutting-edge and sustainable.

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