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Design Manager

Barton Malow 🇺🇸 Southfield, Michigan, United States of America

Onsite Full-time Senior

The Design Manager will lead technical matters related to design and engineering for project pursuits and execution, ensuring the design meets the Owner's criteria and the needs of the construction team. This role involves managing design scope, schedule, and quality across projects while collaborating with various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Set expectations and establish project rules of engagement
  • Establish and monitor scope
  • Establish and monitor the design schedule
  • Lead design coordination meetings and communicate design status, recovery plans, and critical path impacts to stakeholders
  • Review, monitor, and report on overall A/E performance, quality, and contract compliance
  • Drive design change management, including scope changes, design clarifications, and RFIs that impact schedule or cost

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in architecture, engineering, construction management, or a related field
  • 5+ years of design management, architectural, or engineering experience within the construction industry
  • Experience managing design efforts on large-scale commercial, industrial, or advanced technology projects
  • Strong working knowledge of architectural and engineering deliverables, design phases, the design review process, and design scope, schedule, and change management
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint

Key Skills

Design management Architecture Engineering Construction management Project management Communication Collaboration Leadership Microsoft Office Suite Bluebeam Autodesk Build Revit Project collaboration platforms

About Barton Malow

For more than a century, Barton Malow has been committed to Building Today for a Better Tomorrow: People, Projects, and Communities. The Barton Malow Enterprise includes five entities and four strategic partners, united by the enterprise’s long-term goal to build innovative and trust-based solutions to overcome the productivity challenges in our industry and deliver value to our clients and communities. We work in a wide range of diverse markets, including automotive, energy, industrial, healthcare, commercial, K12, higher education, mission critical, sports, and entertainment. Visit our website to learn more about Barton Malow, our culture, our people, and how we build projects that positively impact communities and transform the construction industry.

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