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Design Manager

The Whiting-turner Contracting Company 🇺🇸 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Full-time Manager

Lead and coordinate design efforts from project pursuit and inception through construction and closeout, ensuring design decisions meet program, budget, schedule, quality, and sustainability requirements. Facilitate collaboration among clients, designers, builders, and project teams; manage design reviews and decision logs; and support construction-phase design issues and business development.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and coordinate design efforts from project pursuit and inception through construction and closeout, ensuring design decisions meet program, budget, schedule, quality, and sustainability requirements. Facilitate collaboration among clients, designers, builders, and project teams; manage design reviews and decision logs; and support construction-phase design issues and business development.

Requirements

  • Requires a degree in architecture or a related design field and at least five years of post-college experience in design, construction, or project/program management; qualifying graduate architects may be considered with at least three years of design-firm experience. Candidates should have experience taking projects from programming through construction administration, strong design-and-construction coordination and project management skills, and working knowledge of design documentation, codes, permitting, and relevant software; professional licensure is noted as an interest.

Key Skills

Project management Design coordination Construction administration Programming to construction lifecycle Design documentation Building codes knowledge Permitting processes Architectural software proficiency Collaboration with clients and multidisciplinary teams Leadership Decision logging Sustainability considerations Budget management Schedule management Quality assurance Business development support

About The Whiting-turner Contracting Company

“How fortunate we all are to work in an industry that produces such a tangible work product that affects so many profoundly. All of us face difficult obstacles on all of our projects, but at the end of the day, we collectively turn around, look at what we’ve created, and it takes our breath away. It’s why we do it.” - Tim Regan, President and CEO Whiting-Turner provides construction management, general contracting, design-build and integrated project delivery services on projects small and large for a diverse group of customers. Since 1909, the firm has been guided by the principles of integrity, excellence and an unwavering dedication to customer delight. With offices nationwide, the firm’s over 4,000 salaried professionals provide depth of resources to service nationally and to build locally. The mission of Whiting-Turner is to build on our reputation for integrity, excellence, experience and leadership as the nation’s finest construction organization. Our demo

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