Design Manager

Responsibilities

• Core Design Management: Responsible for the successful realization of client’s project vision, including performance, programming, cost, and schedule objectives.
• Core Design Management: Lead the interface between the Design team, Suffolk operations, external design and industry professionals, trade partners, regulatory agencies, and other project stakeholders to achieve project goals, all the while embracing culture of authentic collaboration and technical competence.
• Core Design Management: Maintain and support client relationships during all project phases, ensuring a client-first mentality that encourages both active engagement in and ownership of all design decisions.
• Core Design Management: Lead project team meetings, workshops, and other collaborative communications throughout a project’s life cycle.
• Core Design Management: Hold self, and teams, accountable for meeting deadlines and trouble-shoot challenges by leveraging the full capacity of interdisciplinary project teams.
• Design Process Management: Lead the development and management of optimized design processes for each project, supporting the efficient, linear delivery of fully coordinated and buildable drawings prior to the start of construction.
• Design Process Management: Build upon Suffolk’s world-class construction planning and execution capabilities by strategically aligning documentation development with construction sequencing, supporting streamlined workflows.
• Design Process Management: In association with Suffolk preconstruction experts, lead the execution of rigorous, ‘real-time’, project constructability reviews during design process, ensuring that all documentation is complete, coordinated, and buildable prior to the start of construction.
• Design Process Management: At key project design milestones, liaise with preconstruction teams to evaluate and validate that cost and schedule align with project objectives.
• Suffolk Design Operations: Track and report progress towards project milestone completion, staffing allocations, and project financial health.
• Suffolk Design Operations: In collaboration with Design leadership and the project team, analyze, refine, and test design-construction workflow assumptions in real-time to optimize Suffolk Design's process moving forward.
• Suffolk Design Operations: Leverage and grow Suffolk’s proprietary constructability knowledge database, which serves as a critical input to a proactive QA/QC process throughout design.
• Suffolk Design Operations: Support Suffolk's design technology staff in the introduction of automated design and documentation processes and workflows.

Qualifications

• Professional degree in Architecture or Engineering is required.
• 8-10 years’ experience in the professional design services industry, with a background in design project management.
• Proven success working on multiple projects and commercial building types, across all project phases.
• Experience managing teams through the duration of the project’s design process, including completion of Construction Documentation (Drawing & Specification).
• Substantial hands-on experience through the full Construction Administration cycle on multiple projects.
• Proficiency with Building Information Modeling platforms, including the Autodesk Suite and other industry standard 3D modeling and analysis software.
• Substantial knowledge of building and zoning codes, entitlement procedures, environmental regulations, and regulatory agency requirements, including those of the Division of the State Architect
• Extensive knowledge of industry standards and resources.
• Strong management capabilities and proactive leadership qualities that allow for systematic and consistent implementation of standard processes, procedures, and systems across Suffolk Design and Suffolk’s broader design-build delivery business.
• Self-motivated and able to work as part of a team or independently, depending on the situation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certification as licensed architect or professional engineer is strongly preferred.
• Advanced degree preferred.
• Shared enthusiasm for executing the Design vision, with a demonstrated willingness to rethink traditional methodologies and to passionately seek out advancements in project delivery outcomes.
• Desire to be part of something bigger than oneself and appreciate the opportunity that Suffolk and Design bring to radically transform the design and construction industry.
• Genuinely collaborative and open to the expert opinions of leading construction and technology industry experts, all the while able to confidently bring technical design knowledge to the discussion.
• Deep awareness and sensitivity to the workings of the design and construction processes, and the ability to interpret and develop creative, technically competent, and constructible solutions to design challenges.
• Demonstrates value-driven design philosophy that incorporates sound business judgement, community benefit and aesthetic excellence.

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