Aptitude Senior Design Manager

Overview

Aptitude Senior Design Manager

Kansas City, MO, US, 64106;
Minneapolis, MN, US, 55401;
Raleigh, NC, US, 27607;
Houston, TX, US, 77057;
Nashville, TN, US, 37210;
Austin, TX, US, 78704;
Atlanta, GA, US, 30339;
Springfield, MO, US, 65810;
Tempe, AZ, US, 85281;
Dallas, TX, US, 75254;
Omaha, NE, US, 68118;
Charlotte, NC, US, 28217;
Oklahoma City, OK, US, 73104;
Savannah, GA, US, 31401;
Des Moines, IA, US, 50389;
Tampa, FL, US, 33609

Best People + Right Culture. These are the driving forces behind JE Dunn’s success.

By hiring inspired people, giving them interesting and challenging work, enabling them with innovative tools, and letting them share in the company’s rewards, we’ve found a sustainable way to grow in our industry for the last 100+ years.

Aptitude, JE Dunn’s strategic partner for technology integration services, was born out of the growing need to meet the increasingly complex demands of modern building projects.

Our diverse teams around the country strive to enrich lives through inspired people and places every day, and we need inspired people like you to join us in our pursuit of building perfection.

The Senior Design Manager is responsible for successful delivery of projects by leading the design participants, process and technology. Participants include the design team(s) and trade partners when projects utilize design-build, design assist or other alternate delivery methods. This position requires proactive leadership of the design process from initial business development phase through project completion. Plays an integral role with project team ensuring project goals are achieved.

All activities will be performed in support of the strategy, vision and values of JE Dunn.

• Autonomy & Decision Making:
  Makes decisions within defined limits of authority and consults supervisor on other decisions
• Career Path:
  Various

DESIGN MANAGEMENT FAMILY – CORE

• Develops turnkey design pricing proposals in response to client RFPs
• Collaborate with estimating preconstruction and interprets formal design build RFPs and business development teams to develop competitive bid strategies
• Ensure designs meet functional, aesthetic, and sustainability goals.
• Integrates structural, mechanical, and electrical considerations into technology plans.
• Manage the creation to completion design packages that include detailed floor plans, elevations, and one-lines.
• Reviews and understands bridging documents for project compliance with RFP including comprehension of Codes and Criteria to meet the technical requirements and design deliverables.
• Supports early phase basic due diligence activities with clients and key stakeholders to ensure professional studies, jurisdictional & permitting requirements are incorporated into design documents.
• Manages design, assuring they meet the technical requirements as well as schedule requirements for design deliverables.
• Manages the design review process with design team and clients to ensure schedules are met and identifies project risks and opportunities throughout the design phase.
• Leverages design experiences and knowledge to work with project teams identifying solutions to project specific challenges while monitoring expectations for design schedules, quality control, and content for design document delivery.
• Generates cost savings and value-added solutions during design phase.
• Monitors and controls our design partner’s and consultant’s cost through the design development, both cost of project and cost of the design services for added scope.
• Reviews design and provides quality control review comments to ensure the program specifications and life-safety requirements are met.
• Coordinates the design document packaging strategies with the project team.
• Manages project documentation such as proposal, drawings, specifications, reports, calculations, and shop drawings using both 3D and 2D file management system.
• Capable of developing sketches and plans to assist preconstruction with pricing of conceptual ideas. Coordinates with project team to develop and implement project(s) as needed.
• Provides technical design guidance throughout entire construction process.
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