Design Manager, Industrial​/Manufacturing

Design Manager, Industrial/Manufacturing

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• Interprets formal design build RFPs and develops work plans, collaborating with preconstruction, operations, and other key stakeholders.
• Understands potential client’s business needs and helps create conceptual plans, elevations, 3D models for support of presentations and win strategies.
• Reviews and understands bridging documents for project compliance with RFP including comprehension of codes and criteria to meet technical requirements and design deliverables.
• Supports early phase basic due diligence activities with clients and key stakeholders to incorporate professional studies, jurisdictional and permitting requirements into design documents.
• Manages outside design consultants, assuring they meet technical requirements as well as schedule requirements for design deliverables.
• Manages the design review process with design team and clients to ensure schedules are met and identifies project risks and opportunities throughout the design phase.
• Leverages design experiences and knowledge to work with project teams identifying solutions to project specific challenges while monitoring expectations for design schedules, quality control, and content for design document delivery.
• Generates cost savings and value‑added solutions during design phase.
• Monitors and controls our design partner’s and consultant’s cost through the design development, both cost of project and cost of the design services for added scope.
• Reviews design and provides quality control review comments to ensure program specifications and life‑safety requirements are met.
• Coordinates design document packaging strategies with the project team.
• Manages project documentation such as proposal, drawings, specifications, reports, calculations, and shop drawings using both 3D and 2D file management system.
• Capable of developing sketches and plans to assist preconstruction with pricing of conceptual ideas. Coordinates with VDC team to develop and implement project(s) as needed.
• Provides technical design guidance throughout entire construction process.
• Provides design engineering support for the entire life cycle of the project (proposal, site survey, engineering, equipment selection, permitting, training, and construction).
• Understands project budget and steers project accordingly ensuring the design stays in line with contractual details.

• Leads the process to understand potential client’s business needs and helps create conceptual plans, elevations, and 3D models in support of presentations and win strategies.
• Directs the selection of design professionals during the pre‑qualification process to enable Design Build projects by evaluating design partners through RFP and selection process.
• Plays a lead role with the Project Executive to set design budgets, schedules and fees, and influences ongoing decisions throughout the project lifecycle that impacts cost, schedule and budget.
• Functions as key liaison between JE Dunn and design team to ensure architect and design partners are accountable for delivering on project strategy.
• Provides thought leadership and direction to the design process from schematic design through completion.
• Responsible for managing the external design team ensuring they hit their deadlines and deliverables.
• Engages in business, industry and community activities to build and strengthen external relationships.
• Manages change management with internal team and external design partners throughout the duration of the project.

• Ability to perform work accurately and completely, and in a timely manner.
• Communication skills, verbal and written – Intermediate.
• Ability to conduct effective presentations.
• Proficiency in MS Office – Intermediate.
• Thorough knowledge of project processes and how each supports the successful completion of a project.
• Ability to build relationships and collaborate within a team, internally and externally.
• Ability to apply Lean process and philosophy – Intermediate.
• Proficiency with AutoCAD, Revit and/or Google Sketch…