Design Manager-Advanced Delivery

Design Manager-Advanced Delivery

Are you looking for a highly rewarding opportunity that provides extensive career growth opportunity? Gilbane is seeking an Design Manager - Advanced Delivery to lead leads the integration of design and construction teams to deliver coordinated, constructible, and cost-effective designs. This role supports advanced delivery models (Design-Build, IPD, P3, EPC), ensuring design intent, risk management, and project readiness for execution.

As a Top-10 ENR Contractor, Gilbane is a family-owned business with 45 offices that has been shaping communities since 1870. Consistently recognized as one of the most reputable construction management firms in the country, Gilbane is committed to delivering projects safely and on-time. You will have the opportunity to build schools, labs, hospitals, corporate offices, sports arenas and more!

We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

You are a coach/leader who leads with an inclusive and empathetic mindset. You provide feedback and guidance to help others excel in their current or future roles. You determine priorities, delegate work, and effectively communicate progress. You establish measures to assess the impact, quality, and timeliness of results while praising successes and sharing lessons learned. You build high performing teams by attracting, engaging, developing, and retaining talented individuals through motivation and discipline to maximize impact on the organization and the individual.

You leverage business insights by understanding industry trends, local market/economic conditions, and Gilbane's business model to make critical decisions and create competitive advantage. You deploy a strategic mindset when considering solutions to long-term opportunities and risks that may develop in the future.

Your core values match Gilbane's:
Integrity, Caring, Teamwork, Tough mindedness, Dedication to Excellence, Discipline, Loyalty, and Entrepreneurship.

Gilbane offers employees multi-dimensional training opportunities through a number of resources. While managing your responsibilities to projects, you will be able to enroll in trainings through our award-winning Gilbane University to build leadership and technical skills. In addition, you would work with an experienced team which provides you with the opportunity to learn new industry skills every day. You will protect and promote the interests of both Gilbane and the client in all matters as well as demonstrating the personal characteristics of a developing leader.

• Serves as primary liaison between design and construction teams during proposals
• Leads strategy for design services breakdown and integration of specialty consultants or design/build trades
• Defines technical scope, manage RFIs, and ensure comprehensive bridging documents
• Develops and maintains design deliverable schedules aligned with procurement and build phases
• Reviews all scopes of services for all Designers and Consultants; design Teaming Agreements
• Collaborates with estimating to break down RFPs and support subcontractor/vendor pricing
• Assembles and maintains the Endorsed Project Baseline (proposal, estimate, contract, schedule)
• Identifies and communicates requirements to clarify RFPs for design and construction
• Oversees design progression to ensure alignment with budget, schedule, and constructability; lead target value design
• Facilitates design charrettes, team chartering, and owner approval processes
• Coordinates permitting process and maintain related schedules
• Monitors and documents design changes, minimizing scope creep
• Leads design risk management, including cost-benefit analyses for RFIs and changes
• Ensures Health & Safety integration: completes Safety Risk Assessments, introduces Hierarchy of Controls, and incorporates logistics planning into design
• Ensures effective coordination between the VDC (Virtual…