Design Manager-Rail Transit
Design Manager-Rail Transit
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$ 116840 - 175260
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Job Description
Bring your curiosity and determination to make a positive impact on the future of transport and well help you go all the way.
Join our team of globally connected specialists to help solve complex transport challenges and experience groundbreaking projects from idea to delivery and beyond.
Our pledge to you.
Join GHD.
Who are we looking for
Our Rail & Transit Business Group in the U.S. West is looking for a dynamic and motivated individual to take on the role of Design Manager Rail & Transitbased out ofany of our offices in the San Francisco Bay area (Santa Rosa San Francisco Oakland San Jose or Concord).
You will support our Rail & Transit Business Groups leadership team and oversee rail and transit pursuits and projects across the State of California. The position will include support of business development client relationship management and leading a diversified portfolio of projects. The position may include limited staff management.
Our ideal candidate has strong leadership business development project management and engineering skills. Established client relationships and a consistent record of developing new business opportunities is required. We are seeking selfmotivated and active networkers who value building credible relationships with clients and the community.
In the problemsolving business it helps to be restlessly curious to deliver community change.
Our vision is to ensure energy water and urbanization are made sustainable for generations to come. You can lead the way into a new future for our industry inspiring the next generation of driven and committed people in the process.
Learn about leadership opportunities with GHD.
Working with an energetic and high performing team this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in:
Project Delivery Responsibilities:
- Responsible for leading multidisciplinary project delivery for complex rail & transit designbuild and progressive designbuild projects to produce compliant & constructible designs in accordance with client operations and maintenance and construction requirements
- Ensure that designs follow the appropriate engineering processes including GHD and project specific processes
- Coordinating quality control of all deliverable submittals in accordance with GHDs Quality Management System
- Accountable for developing or verifying the technical scope of a project and working with discipline leads to provide pricing during the proposal phase and work planning following project award to initiate design activities
- Actively participate in the preparation of project delivery schedules in collaboration with the project controls team
- Responsible for managing the engineering design budget and providing key inputs to the project controls team
- Responsible for implementing and following the projects change control system including proactive escalation of potential changes
- Continuously review and improve the overall project strategy to meet design schedule and budget with the ability to support staging and phasing requirements
- Ensure fluid communication between the project management team design team construction team and various internal and external partners
- Verify that the schedule and budget data match the progress of professional services throughout of the project
- Coordinates the preparation of design criteria by the discipline leads
- Lead the creation and of design work plan and level of effort
- Convenes chairs and documents interdisciplinary design coordination meetings and brings forward updates and any critical issues that impact external partners to the Project Manager
- May serve as a liaison between the construction contract administrator and engineering team during construction. Coordinates multidisciplinary problem resolution resulting from noncompliance with drawings and specifications at the site
- Coordinating design compliance through verification and validation of performance specifications
- Identifying value added design changes to positively support designbuild and progressive designbuild projects across all subject areas
Business Development Responsibilities:
- Maintain a forwardlooking perspective on market trends and industry developments as they change through participation in industry groups (e.g. CMAA APTA WTS Beavers etc. reviewing advancements and monitoring other projects and processes and client activity
- Serve as the capture manager for key client pursuits
- Build GHD client relationships through industry knowledge and experience
- Work collaboratively and seamlessly with other GHD business groups within the U.S. West (e.g. transportation environmental and future energy) consulting engineering firms and contractors to win and complete work and service commitments.
- Seek out internal resources wherever they may be to provide efficient project delivery and excellent client satisfaction. This will include active participation in GHDs Rail & Transit service line which includes GHD team members in Australia Canada United Kingdom Middle East and the U.S.
What you will bring to the team:
- Bachelors (B.S. degree from an accredited college or university in Civil or Structural Engineering
- Professional Engineer Civil license in the State of California or the ability to obtain a license within six months of employment
- Design Management experience on commuter rail and/or light rail projects within the U.S. and California
- Alternative project delivery (designbuild progressive designbuild and/or CM/GC) experience leading design team arrangements with contractors and consultants
- 10 years of design management experience on large multidiscipline engineering teams $500M) with experience in complex station and facilities design
- Understanding of rail transit stations (at grade elevated and underground) bridges signals and communication facilities
- Knowledge of scheduling software and engineering and capital cost estimating techniques is a definite asset.
- Experience with Building Information Modelling (BIM) on multidiscipline projects
- The ability to deal with uncertainty and changing & multiple priorities
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with overseeing the development of technical specifications
- Strong organizational skills
Salary Range: $116840 $175260 based on experience.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
