Design Manager
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Job Description
Job Description
Role
As a member of the project leadership team the Design Manager (DM) is responsible for the timely development of the project design and its alignment with the project plan. As the projectexecution plan includes client expectations scope of work packaging delivery methods cost budgetsequence of work quality expectations and planned schedule the Design Manager establishes andmanages processes on their projects to build and maintain alignment between the design and these projectobjectives. As design documents are not the design itself but rather a snapshot in time of particular projectdesign aspects the Design Managers key points of interface start with the designers themselves at theoutset of the project.
Key Responsibilities
Responsibilities may vary depending upon project type location delivery method phase of projectengagement and DPR team experience skills and capacity.
- Work with the pursuit leader to lead and manage successful competitive DesignBuild and heavyDesignAssist pursuits (jobs in which we are hired before 50 DD and are expected to participateby informing the design).
- Facilitate and advise design team selections and teaming agreement negotiations.
- Review and validate A/E scopes and support fair fee negotiations that benefit DPR and A/E team.
- Promote the use of GPLA as SEOR where they can give us a strategic advantage. Otherwise tapinto GPLA for delegated means and methods engineering and modeling/detailing to support SPWand Prefab by implementing preferred details promoting standard work practices and morepredictable outcomes.
- Facilitate integration of SelfPerform Work (SPW) Digital Building Components (DBC)Prefabrication DPR Technical Design Services EIG SurePods and VueOps into the design andfabrication model where value is added to the project.
- Understanding ways the design creates opportunity for prefabrication selfperformed work andmodularization to deliver more project value while enabling their successful integration into thedesign and fabrication process.
- Facilitate a culture that builds and sustains open and honest trusting relationships with the designteam.
- Support or organize and facilitate High Performing Team (HPT) project workshops to create analigned Vision Mission Charter and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure successfuloutcomes.
- Organize and support cluster group or similar formation strategy during the design phase andproject workshops. Align and sustain the (OAEC) team in delivering a Design Plan thatstreamlines design and preconstruction processes.
- Utilize a comprehensive understanding of design scope contract risk to develop a mitigation plan foreffectively managing design related project risk.
- Evaluate the project for needed design scope and develop a comprehensive strategy for integratingALL stakeholder design responsibilities including design assist delegated design and deferreddesign into a seamless and complete design scope.
- Understand and use the Owners business case and steer the design to meet client expectations.
- Actively engage and coordinate with the DPR team to ensure alignment on key responsibilities insupport of the design process.
- Recognize and encourage value enhancing design iteration while driving timely design resolutionthat supports the project budget project plan and client expectations.
- Proactively identify gaps between the agreed basis of design and developing scope creep with thecapability to mitigate those scope gaps.
- Manage the Program and Concept Design Validation to budget prior to schematic designproduction enabling and steering designtobudget.
- Work with Authorities Having Jurisdiction to establish the appropriate design package permitsubmittal review process ahead of the start of permitting.
- Lead and facilitate Milestone Alignment Planning (MAP) workshops to align design production withthe needs of construction by identifying design packages (including nontraditional fasttrack notsupported by traditional SD/DD/CD design package definitions) prescribing design packageacceptance criteria (DPAC) and driving timely complete design package delivery that enables aseamless supplychain aligned with planned construction.
- Schedule and Lead Design Quality & Constructability Reviews aligning the design team with how wepresent the information and getting items closed through proven integration into the design andcontinued tracking of unclosed items for incorporation into the project risk mitigation plan.
- Set up and manage the internal DPR bulletin review process to provide feedback to design teamsbefore we accept and distribute drawings/changes to subcontractors. This is for everything up to IFCbut also after bulletin acceptance criteria and setting up and coordinating the Bulleting review(QC) meetings internally with DPR team.
- Develop and manage an accountable design change decisionmaking and change managementprocess that enables timely design production and proactively informs the client of cost andschedule consequences for late decisions.
- Implement DPRs Design Acceptance Criteria (DAC) process Collaboratively and proactivelymanaging quality into the design with the architect and into DPRs Quality Control (QC) plan;creating design acceptance criteria with design teams for Basis of Design (BOD) nontraditionaldesign packages traditional SD DD CD packages RFIs and supplemental postIssue ForConstruction (IFC) Bulletins.
Experience / Skills
- Proven successful experience in Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR) Design/Build and IntegratedProject Delivery (IPD) in the design and construction phases.
- Leadership and management skills required to create one cohesive team with varying abilities andpriorities.
- Multidisciplinary fluency in architectural design engineering preconstruction and constructionprocesses.
- Ability to influence contractual differences and risks managed by the project team. Fluent in primecontract delivery systems and language with the ability to negotiate optimal deal terms andmitigation strategies leading to successful outcomes.
- Adept at the creative problemsolving of design issues by identifying optimized solutions throughsimultaneous consideration of cost quality constructability supply chain support for constructionand overall customer value.
- This position is salaried.
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DPR Construction is a forwardthinking selfperforming general contractor specializing in technically complex and sustainable projects for the advanced technology life sciences healthcare higher education and commercial markets. Founded in 1990 DPR is a great story of entrepreneurial success as a private employeeowned company that has grown into a multibilliondollar family of companies with offices around the world.
Working at DPR youll have the chance to try new things explore unique paths and shape your future. Here we build opportunity togetherby harnessing our talents enabling curiosity and pursuing our collective ambition to make the best ideas happen. We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work by our talented teammates and leading news organizations like U.S. News and World Report Forbes Fast Company and Newsweek.
Explore our open opportunities atwww.dpr/careers.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
