Director of Design Management

ABOUT GREYSTAR

Greystar is a leading, fully integrated global real estate platform offering expertise in property management, investment management, development, and construction services in institutional-quality rental housing. Headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, Greystar manages and operates over $300 billion of real estate in more than 250 markets globally with offices throughout North America, Europe, South America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Greystar is the largest operator of apartments in the United States, managing over 1,000,000 units/beds globally.

Across its platforms, Greystar has nearly $79 billion of assets under management, including over $35 billion of development assets and over $30 billion of regulatory assets under management. Greystar was founded by Bob Faith in 1993 to become a provider of world-class service in the rental residential real estate business. To learn more, visit

JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

The Director of Design Management (DM) performs a critical role ensuring Development and Construction design requirements are established, incorporated and coordinated in the design process. The DM will work closely with Preconstruction and Development during the initial phases of a project to ensure design requirements and assumptions are established and ensure those requirements are adhered to throughout the design process.

The DM will ensure consistent and robust interim design deliverables throughout the design process ("SD", "DD", and "GMP" or 95% CD, and IFC set of plans) and ensure that national and regional design standards are incorporated within those deliverables. Furthermore, the DM will coordinate pre-Development schedules with Development teams and ensure a smooth transition from design to execution with the Construction teams.

The DM works intimately with the project architect, design teams, and Greystar development, construction and preconstruction teams to manage schedule, drawing quality and design standards. The DM’s success in their role will be measured by the completeness of the plans used to construct the project and the adherence to the established design schedules. DMs must be experienced in multifamily architecture and have extensive knowledge of building and energy codes as well as technical knowledge of building systems and be able to defend a design to code officials if necessary.

JOB DESCRIPTION

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participating in project site planning and visioning meetings to establish the early layout of the project and ensure a consistent vision for the project is applied throughout the design process
• Participating in project Due Diligence meetings to identify and address project design issues and elements
• Establishing and maintaining project pre-development, design and permitting plans and schedules to ensure that all required submissions are complete and submitted on time.
• Communicating effectively with necessary stakeholders (internal and external)
• Coordinating and scheduling the project’s Design Kickoff meeting, including preparing the meeting agenda and providing minutes after the conclusion of the meeting.
• Producing and maintaining a standard list of deliverables for each consultant at each stage of the design process and ensuring that the design teams are consistently designing per those deliverables
• Reviewing all document issuances (including both plans and specifications) to confirm the conformance with the established expectations of quality and scope included in the Design Agreements and Greystar National and Regional Standards including:
  • Conceptual Design
  • Schematic Design
  • Design Development
  • 50% Construction Documents
  • Permit/GMP Documents
  • IFC Construction Documents/Issued For Construction sets
• Scoping and reviewing design consulting agreements
• Ensuring that all 3rd party consultants are engaged by the necessary milestones in the project design schedule
• Ensuring that project architects are distributing the necessary deliverables for review by project subconsultants (including waterproofing, sustainability, accessibility, acoustic, and any other consultant whether under the architect or the owner), engaging the project subconsultants,…