Design Manager
Summary
Oversee and manage design approvals, coordination, and compliance for construction projects, ensuring adherence to industry standards and technical requirements.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee all design approvals with contractors and consultants
- Ensure that the designs are in accordance with the industry standards, compliance and contractual requirements
- Manage design development within the project team and external stakeholders
- Review and identify potential risk and/or technical issues
- Provide technical input, support and solutions to design issues to operation team and identify any potential risk or discrepancy on the design
- Review documented technical requirements and project plan to ensure adherence to defined standards
- Confident to present on all disciplines, Structural, Architectural and E&M involved in the design
- Responsible to drive and manage the coordination of all disciplines in the design and manage the information flow to enable timely decisions to be made
- Involve in technical discussions with clients, consultants, contractors, and suppliers
- Manage the design deliverables – work package design submission, drawing & material submission
- Ensure that the overall design progress is in line with the programme
- Input into buildability and value engineering proposals
- Oversee and develop Design Coordinators to manage independently
- Review designs with Design for Safety (DfS) & Design for Maintainability (DfM)
Requirements:
- Degree in Civil & Structural Engineering, recognized by the PEB
- At least 15 years’ experience in the construction industry, Experience in the design of multi-storey bus depot or similar projects
- Highly motivated, self-driven with initiatives to work independently
- Meticulous, eye for details and a good team player
- Ability to multi-task in a fast paced and dynamic environment
- Mindset to work in a digital environment
- Approach with a Design for Safety mindset
- Proficient in project management and understanding of architectural, structural & MEP trades
- An awareness of sustainability initiatives in construction
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