Design Manager - Federal

Procon Consulting is a top-ranked construction management and technology consulting firm with more than 25 years of experience delivering high-impact projects across the U.S. and worldwide. An ENR Top 100 CM/PM firm for five consecutive years, Procon specializes in program management, construction management, project controls, commissioning, and technology solutions.

Procon is seeking an experienced Design Manager to support a federal facilities management team in the planning, coordination, review, and management of design activities across multiple facility and construction projects.

The Design Manager will serve as a key liaison between project stakeholders, architects and engineers (A/E), and project management teams to ensure design requirements are clearly defined, coordinated across disciplines, and successfully carried through each phase of design.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related field.

• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in design management, engineering, architecture, construction, or a related project environment, including demonstrated responsibility for managing the design process.

• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary design teams, including architectural, structural, mechanical/HVAC, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, controls, and other applicable disciplines.

• Demonstrated experience coordinating with A/E firms and managing design submissions, stakeholder reviews, comment resolution, and interdisciplinary coordination.

• Strong understanding of design development, construction documents, constructability, and the overall design and construction process.

• Experience developing and maintaining design management tools such as schedules, milestone trackers, comment logs, requirements matrices, action-item logs, design deliverable trackers, and risk registers.

• Strong written and verbal communication, organization, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.

• Ability to effectively manage multiple concurrent projects, design reviews, priorities, and deliverables.

• Preferred:
  Active Professional Engineer (PE) or Registered Architect (RA) license, or current PMP or CCM certification.

• Preferred:
  Experience supporting projects within occupied federal facilities or similarly secure/controlled environments.

• Familiarity with applicable building and life-safety requirements, including IBC, NFPA standards, ABA Accessibility Standards, and applicable permitting requirements is preferred.

• Manage and coordinate design activities across multiple facility and construction projects of varying size, scope, and complexity.

• Work with project stakeholders to identify, develop, confirm, and document project design requirements.

• Develop and/or support the development of Statements of Work (SOWs) for architectural, engineering, and facility projects.

• Serve as a primary coordination point with A/E firms throughout the design process.

• Manage design submission cycles, including distributing design packages, coordinating stakeholder reviews, consolidating comments, and tracking comment resolution.

• Coordinate design meetings and document key decisions, requirements, action items, and outstanding issues.

• Perform multidisciplinary reviews of drawings, specifications, studies, and other technical design documents for coordination, constructability, completeness, and potential impacts to project scope, cost, schedule, and facility operations.

• Identify and coordinate interdisciplinary issues involving architectural, structural, mechanical/HVAC, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, controls, civil/site, and other disciplines.

• Develop and maintain design schedules, milestone…