Design Project Manager

Description

As a Design Project Manager at Metro National, you will deliver innovative design projects through all phases, from concept through completion. This role is responsible for managing internal and external project teams, coordinating consultants, supporting contract documentation, maintaining project schedules, and ensuring projects are delivered with attention to quality, budget, schedule, and client service. The Design Project Manager serves as a primary point of contact for assigned projects and works closely with Development, Design leadership, consultants, contractors, and internal stakeholders to support successful project execution.

As a Design Project Manager at Metro National, you will deliver innovative design projects through all phases, from concept through completion. This role is responsible for managing internal and external project teams, coordinating consultants, supporting contract documentation, maintaining project schedules, and ensuring projects are delivered with attention to quality, budget, schedule, and client service. The Design Project Manager serves as a primary point of contact for assigned projects and works closely with Development, Design leadership, consultants, contractors, and internal stakeholders to support successful project execution.

Reporting to the Director of Design, this position plays an important role in advancing Metro National's design standards, supporting real estate development and renovation initiatives, and helping translate design vision into clear, coordinated, and executable project documentation. The role requires strong project management skills, architectural knowledge, consultant coordination experience, sound judgment, and the ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences.

The Design Project Manager will also assist with consultant procurement, design documentation review, construction administration, jurisdictional coordination, project reporting, change order tracking, and cross-functional communication. This position supports a culture of teamwork, accountability, creativity, professionalism, and continuous improvement while helping Metro National deliver high-quality projects that support long-term value and legacy.

At Metro National, Integrity, Trust, Impact, and Legacy are more than Core Values. They guide how we work, lead, and show up every day. These Values shape our decisions, interactions, and expectations across the organization.

• Integrity:
  We do what's right, the right way, every time.
• Trust:
  People can count on us because we do what we say.
• Impact:
  We are driven to make everything we touch better.
• Legacy:
  Rooted in history, we build with the future in mind.

• Manage assigned design projects from concept through completion, ensuring quality, schedule, and budget expectations are met.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining clear priorities, timelines, documentation, and communication.
• Prepare, maintain, and update project schedules, workplans, and project trackers to support design leadership visibility and weekly staffing discussions.
• Monitor overall project health, including administrative, financial, technical, schedule, consultant, and documentation-related matters.
• Identify changing project conditions, risks, or issues that require escalation to the Director of Design or Executive leadership.
• Support projects through planning, design development, construction documentation, construction administration, and project closeout.
• Help identify and mitigate design, cost, schedule, documentation, and coordination risks throughout the project lifecycle.

• Coordinate with internal design, development, construction, leasing, accounting, and other teams to support successful project execution.
• Coordinate project consultants through all phases of the project, including concept design, schematic design, design development, construction documentation, and construction administration.
• Communicate design intent clearly with architects, structural consultants, MEP consultants, contractors, and other project partners.
• Review design consultant documentation for alignment with project goals, design quality, code considerations, constructability, schedule, and budget.
• Oversee or support the production of high-quality drawing and documentation sets prepared by internal or external resources.
• Prepare, maintain,…