Design Manager

Graham is an employee-owned construction solutions partner servicing the buildings, industrial, infrastructure, water and project finance sectors. We deliver lasting value for our clients through meticulous planning and scheduling, while upholding rigorous safety and quality standards. With offices throughout North America, our passionate and knowledgeable teams deliver projects that enable communities to thrive and people to live, work, move and grow in a rapidly changing world.

About the Role:

Reporting to the Design Director, the Design Manager is responsible for contributing to the development of the Design team while ensuring procedures and best practices are followed. The incumbent manages and provides input into the design process with respect to initial strategy and developing the overarching design philosophy, and is accountable for ensuring the Design team is meeting compliance and contractual obligations, as well as identifying, managing, and mitigating risk.

As a Design Manager for Graham you will:

• Ensure that design policies and procedures are followed.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the design policy and procedures.
• Ensure the team is meeting the compliance and contractual obligations, and notify the team of any risks relating to this.
• Monitor ongoing design efforts to ensure minimal compliance and most cost-effective design.
• Manage the time of the direct reports.
• Interface with other members of the Bid team or Project Execution team to ensure design effort is coordinated with all other efforts.
• Ensure the Design team is meeting all contractual obligations.
• Monitor for minimal compliance, including area checks, efficiency of the layout (corridors, electrical), and gross up factors.
• Monitor clash-detection processes for design and ensure deliverables are submitted on time both to us and to the client.
• Meet and ensure the quality of the design documents.
• Audit the design documents against the requirements, ensuring they are complete and they meet an industry quality standard.
• Notify the Commercial team of any contract variances to the performance specifications and variances to the original budget.
• Contribute to the Design Management of a project.
• Provide support to the Project Director / Manager and the Project Execution team as required.

• Follow the Graham Management Systems (GMS) for preconstruction activities and the Design Management Plan for project execution, ensuring compliance.
• Ensure noncompliance issues are tracked and provided to the Commercial team.
• Ensure all the Design team is meeting their deliverables on the dates set.
• Ensure that the architects' deliverables meet the definition of that phase of drawings.
• Ensure the quality control plan is followed by the Design team.
• Work collaboratively with the Construction team to ensure constructability concerns are addressed.
• Ensure contractual obligations are met.

• Oversee the design of complex projects.
• Minimize changes to the designers and maintain efficiency in the planning process.
• Ensure proper management of design risk.
• Ensure performance specifications are met.
• Manage the number of hours of the team.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with clients, design consultants, and other stakeholders.

• Negotiate with clients to resolve issues as they arise.
• Manage expectations, educating others on the design process and communicating the highly technical design elements to all levels and understanding.
• Build rapport with the user group members / client representative.

• Demonstrate HSE and Quality behaviours that reflect corporate expectations of Actively Caring and Road to Zero.
• Take responsibility for own health and safety, and that of other workers, visitors to the site(s), the community, and the environment.
• Lead, promote, and maintain a positive safety culture within the team, without compromise.
• Understand and comply with client requirements, Occupational Health and Safety regulations, and all applicable government laws and regulations.
  

Qualifications / Experience:

• Completion of a university program in a technical, business, or scientific field of study; degree in Engineering or Architecture is an asset.
• LEED, PMP, and P.Eng designations are assets.
• Minimum 10 years of construction management experience.
• Minimum 3 years working as a Design Manager on design build projects of similar types.
• Experience working on Level 3 projects at a minimum.
• Experience managing at least 2-3 people.
• Experience with projects in the relevant division.
• Experience working for a design builder on design build procurement methods.
• Strong negotiating skills.
• Proficiency using MS Office Suite and BIM software tools.
• Working knowledge of Navisworks (3D and 4D) and REVIT (extract data, open models).
• Experience with ACONEX and Revizto (Visual collaboration tool) is an asset.

Compensation:

• $126,500 to $173,900 per annum
• Salary will commensurate with education and experience
• Excellent Flexible Health & Dental benefits plan, Life and Disability Insurance
• Pension savings plan with employer match
• 3 to 5 weeks of vacation per year, with credit for prior industry experience
  

If this sounds like you, then Graham may be the right fit. Apply today.

Graham is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and employment selection decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Graham does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by country, regional or local law.

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