Facilities Manager | Aviation

Overview

At Corgan we are passionate about great design but the best thing we build is each other. Here, you’ll find camaraderie and collaboration as abundantly as curiosity and creativity. Corgan is a welcoming and supportive environment that provides significant career advantages. You’ll find room to grow, freedom to explore — and the safety to fail. Thank you for your interest in joining our curious, passionate, hardworking team.

We are actively recruiting a design professional focused on real estate management to join our collaborative and innovative firm in our Aviation market sector. This position is for a very specific opportunity to perform consulting services to an airline client at DFW International airport. This is an amazing opportunity for an experienced designer who is passionate about programming, space planning and focusing on the end goal.

This is an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated, organized designer who wants to assume responsibility and work in a fast-paced environment and adaptable to various scales of project types.

Tackle these responsibilities alongside a team of creative, highly motivated individuals who are passionate about their work and ready to collaborate to achieve outstanding results. Our ideal team member is passionate and progressively seeking more responsibilities to expand their expertise.

This position will be responsible for working with the client and other DFW stakeholders to develop, program and plan space throughout the airport terminals, including both public facing and back-of-house spaces. The ideal candidate must be well-rounded with a flexible attitude, strong leadership and organizational skills, effective communication, a confident presenter, and have a successful record of managing multiple projects and priorities while maintaining client-focus.

Other responsibilities include:

• Anticipate, understand and manage client expectations.
• Define scope of services for self, as well as design service providers, contractors and vendors for client projects
• Establish and manage project schedules.
• Assist in the preparation of project budgets, particularly for FF&E. Aid in the preparation of construction budgets.
• Provide leadership to client’s project team(s). Communicate project goals and expectations; review project team deliverables and provide comment.
• Lead and encourage open dialogue with the client’s project team(s) regarding design and technical ideation and facilitate appropriate solutions.
• Drive each project team to seek innovation in design solutions in an ongoing spirit of curiosity, continuous improvement, and increased project performance.
• Motivate the project team to meet project goals through encouragement and/or course correction
• Oversee the selection of materials, furnishings, fixtures, and equipment. Confirm adherence to the client’s standards where applicable.
• Prepare and conduct project presentations.
• Solicit proposals from vendors.
• Assist in the preparation of bid documents on the client’s behalf for construction, FF&E and move and relocation services as required.
• Assist in the preparation of contracts and/or purchase orders on behalf of the client.
• Oversee project team’s administration of construction phase procedures and documentation (shop drawings/submittals, requests for information, and addenda/clarifications)
• Oversee development and presentation of proposed project solutions to project stakeholders.
• Actively explore and recognize new business opportunities through professional networks
• Develop effective project directives, outlines, projections, schedules, and strategies over the course of the project.
• Oversee development and communication of appropriate project phasing.
• Identify solutions and effectively resolve technical challenges
• Understand and apply appropriate industry standards and construction practices
• Oversees, and is responsible for, the identification, understanding and documentation of regulatory agencies’ requirements, as well as recognizing and resolving code-related design issues
• Demonstrate, share, and appropriately apply, new methodologies, practices, codes, and products
• Assist with invoice review as…