Senior Design Manager

Overview

Senior Design Manager

As a member of the project leadership team, the Senior Design Manager (SDM) is responsible for the timely development of the project design and its alignment with the project execution plan. The project execution plan includes client expectations, scope of work packaging, delivery methods, cost budget, sequence of work, quality expectations, and planned schedule. The SDM establishes and manages processes on projects to align the design with these project objectives. Design documents are a snapshot in time of particular project design aspects, and the SDM’S key points of interface start with the designers themselves at the outset of the project.

Key Responsibilities :

• Work with the pursuit leader to lead and manage successful competitive Design-Build, and heavyDesign-Assist pursuits (jobs in which we are hired before 50% DD and are expected to participate by 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 tap into GPLA for delegated, means and methods engineering, and modeling / detailing to support SPW and Prefab by implementing preferred details, promoting standard work practices and more predictable outcomes.
• Facilitate integration of Self-Perform Work (SPW), Digital Building Components (DBC), Prefabrication, DPR Technical Design Services, EIG, SurePods and Vueops into the design and fabrication model where value is added to the project.
• Understand ways the design creates opportunity for prefabrication, self-performed work, and modularization to deliver more project value while enabling their successful integration into the design and fabrication process.
• Facilitate a culture that builds and sustains open and honest, trusting relationships with the design team.
• Support or organize and facilitate High Performing Team (HPT) project workshops to create an aligned Vision, Mission, Charter and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure successful outcomes.
• Organize and support cluster group, or similar, formation strategy during the design phase and project workshops. Align and sustain the (OAEC) team in delivering a Design Execution Plan that streamlines design and preconstruction processes.
• Utilize a comprehensive understanding of design scope contract risk to develop a mitigation plan for effectively managing design related project risk.
• Evaluate the project for needed design scope and develop a comprehensive strategy for integrating ALL stakeholder design responsibilities, including design assist, delegated design, and deferred design, into a seamless and complete design scope.
• Understand and use the Owner’s business case and steer the design to meet client expectations.
• Actively engage and coordinate with the DPR team to ensure alignment on key responsibilities in support of the design process.
• Recognize and encourage value enhancing design iteration while driving timely design resolution that supports the project budget, project plan and client expectations.
• Proactively identify gaps between the agreed basis of design and developing scope creep with the capability to mitigate those scope gaps.
• Manage the Program and Concept Design Validation to budget prior to schematic design production, enabling and steering design-to-budget.
• Work with Authorities Having Jurisdiction to establish the appropriate design package permit submittal review process ahead of the start of permitting.
• Lead and facilitate Milestone Alignment Planning (MAP) workshops to align design production with the needs of construction, by identifying design packages (including non-traditional fast-track not supported by traditional SD / DD / CD design package definitions), prescribing design package acceptance criteria (DPAC), and driving timely complete design package delivery that enables a seamless supply-chain aligned with planned construction.
• Schedule and Lead Design Quality & Constructability Reviews aligning the design team with how we present the information and getting items closed through proven integration into the design and continued 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 teams before we accept and distribute drawings / changes to subcontractors. This covers everything up to IFC but also after – bulletin acceptance criteria and coordinating the bulletin review (QC) meetings internally with the DPR team.
• Develop and manage an accountable design change decision-making and change management process that enables timely design production and proactively informs the client of cost and schedule consequences for late decisions.
• Implement DPR’s Design Acceptance Criteria (DAC) process by collaboratively and proactively managing quality into the design with the architect, and into DPR’s Quality Control (QC) plan; creating design acceptance criteria with design teams for Basis of Design (BOD), non-traditional design packages, traditional SD, DD, CD packages, RFIs and supplemental post-Issue For Construction (IFC) Bulletins.

Qualifications :

Anticipated starting pay range : $170,000.00 - $291,000.00

Health and benefits : Nothing is more important than your health and wellness. DPR offers a variety of medical, dental, vision and wellness benefits to keep you healthy. Read more about eligibility and available benefits programs.

for skilled craft and labor or experienced professionals and recent graduates.

DPR Construction is a forward-thinking, self-performing 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, employee-owned company that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar family of companies with offices around the world.

Working at DPR, you\'ll have the chance to try new things, explore unique paths and shape your future. Here, we build opportunity together—by 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.

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