Senior Design Manager
Job Description
Senior Design Manager – Hill International (Middle East) Ltd.
Responsibilities
- Build a team of managers and engineers that can effectively support the business needs and requirements
- Involve all relevant stakeholders in project scope and objective development.
- Set communication strategy and develop communication matrix with all stakeholder's correspondence and documentations.
- Provide guidance to the team to review and critique during each stage of the consultant's strategic masterplan and building designs and ensure coordination Manage the relationship with all stakeholders.
- Constantly monitor and report on progress of the project to stakeholders.
- Implement the communication strategy and matrix
- Ensure resource availability and allocation.
- Assemble and coordinate project staff.
- Manage project resource allocation.
- Provide direction and support to PTS engineers
- Measure technical teams performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques.
- Report and escalate to management as needed
- Able to put together a project budget, managing how the fund is spent and controlling costs.
- Ensure processing the invoices on time after ensuring receiving the project deliverable.
- Perform risk management to minimize project risks
- Ensure Safety compliance.
- Support Assets Briefs development, review and conducting gap analysis on applicable codes and established design criteria
- Review and critique of the Tender Documentation and the various proposals from specialist sub-contractors
- Reviews of the potential innovation and value engineering solutions
- Coordinate with various Sectors and Departments to insure properly integrated plans
- Design review from concept level to the IFC stage including providing technical guidance, review and analysis of designs, studies, sustainability, calculations, drawings, and specifications
Desired Candidate Profile
- 20-25 years of relevant experience in projects management, planning and design management from inception to completion in large scale complex mixed-use masterplans and urban development projects
- Strong skills and knowledge in engineering practices, economic principles, calculation methods, design details and specification
- Familiar with the relevant building codes, standards, permits, sustainability regulations and software applications (including Revit, ArcGIS, SSA etc.
- Track record as a team player with sound multi-disciplinary organisation with design review experience
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, etc.)
- Strong English language communication, presentation and report writing skills