Design Manager

Company Overview Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a “Bridgestone West” strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

This position is responsible for managing the architectural due diligence and design process associated with all Bridgestone Retail Operations LLC formats for new self-development, build to suit, remodeled, and expanded stores. The position is responsible for conducting technical negotiations and construction document reviews with outside developers, architects, and engineers, and building permit officials culminating in the creation of construction, bidding, and contract documents.

This role is also responsible for leading various non-new store projects and initiatives from their inception to construction completion, while managing the activities of internal business partners including the Marketing, Store Operations, Environmental Health and Safety (EHSS) and Real Estate Teams. This position is directly responsible for decisions that impact project budgets through risk management, proper administrative practices, and financial stewardship.

This is a Nashville, TN based role. Relocation is available for the right candidate.

• Manage the A&E (architectural and engineering) conceptual design, due diligence, document development, and jurisdictional approval processes to establish and maintain project schedule integrity.
• Continuously value engineering and monitoring designs and construction activities for conformity to project specifications.
• Manage the flow of all A&E information between BSRO internal departments and various outside agencies, vendors, architects, engineers, developers, and landlords associated with a project.
• Ensure timely and accurate review of documents throughout the planning process for completeness, alignment with approved criteria, cost effectiveness and coordination of the A&E groups associated with each project.
• Review the design and construction activities initiated by third parties (i.e., Developers, Co-Tenants, Sellers, Landlords, etc.) relative to sitework, utility installations, exterior elevation and entrance designs, structural elements, and similar which may affect an existing or proposed BSRO retail location.
• Responsible for ensuring conformance to current minimum site standards, providing creative design solutions, incorporating business and operations criteria into final design.
• Coordinate activities related to jurisdictional code investigations, development of local approval documents, construction drawings and specifications, contractor and vendor bid packages including document management.
• Manage internal development meetings to monitor performance of ongoing projects.
• Select, train, and retain outside consultants and contractors capable of providing design and/or design build services across all Bridgestone Retail Operations LLC formats.
• Coordinate and conduct asset evaluation survey and construction document turnover meetings with Construction Managers to ensure the smooth communication of information they may need to complete design and construction activities.
• Assist in the negotiation of construction issues for the Real Estate…