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Assistant Design Manager

Jacobs πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Onsite $85,000 - $125,000 Full-time Mid-level

The Assistant Design Manager supports planning, design coordination, stakeholder engagement, and design administration activities across assigned capital projects. The role assists the Design Manager in maintaining project organization and ensuring design activities remain organized and aligned with project objectives.

Responsibilities

  • Support coordination of planning and design activities throughout project development
  • Assist with scheduling and facilitation of stakeholder meetings, design workshops, and review sessions
  • Track design deliverables, milestone submissions, review comments, and action item resolution
  • Coordinate collection and organization of stakeholder feedback and technical review comments
  • Support review of design documents for compliance with project requirements, district standards, and operational objectives
  • Maintain design logs, decision records, meeting documentation, and project correspondence
  • Assist with coordination of permitting activities, agency reviews, and design-related approvals
  • Support value engineering evaluations, design-to-budget exercises, and design reconciliation activities
  • Coordinate with Project Managers, Program Controls, Estimators, planners, consultants, and district staff
  • Assist with transition of projects from design into procurement and construction

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, or related field
  • 5+ years of design coordination experience
  • Valid driver's license
  • Relevant experience may be substituted for education on a year-for-year basis where permitted by client requirements

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
  • A 401(k) plan
  • The ability to purchase company stock at a discount
  • Eligible employees may also enroll in a deferred compensation plan or the Executive Deferral Plan
  • Unlimited U.S. Personalized Paid Time Off (PPTO) policy for full-time salaried/exempt employees
  • Seven paid holidays
  • Caregiver leave
  • Merit increases, performance discretionary bonus, and stock

Key Skills

Design coordination Stakeholder engagement Design administration Project organization Communication Project management Time management Attention to detail Problem-solving Collaboration Leadership Architecture Engineering Construction Management LEED RA/PE Design-to-budget exercises Value engineering evaluations Design reconciliation activities Permitting activities Agency reviews Design-related approvals

About Jacobs

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow – delivering outcomes and solutions for the world's most complex challenges. With a team of approximately 45,000, we provide end-to-end services in advanced manufacturing, cities & places, energy, environmental, life sciences, transportation and water. From advisory and consulting, feasibility, planning, design, program and lifecycle management, we're creating a more connected and sustainable world.

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