Design Management Lead

Description

The Design Management Lead acts as the client's (owner’s) primary representative for coordinating, managing, and governing the design review process across all project stakeholders. They ensure that the design meets operational, regulatory, safety, budget, schedule, and stakeholder requirements before construction.

All duties shall be carried out in compliance with client policies and procedures, applicable regulations, and company standards.

• ¦ Establish and manage the overall design review framework, procedures, and review schedule.
• ¦ Lead multidisciplinary design reviews and stage-gate approvals.
• ¦ Ensure design submissions meet owner requirements, contractual obligations, and program objectives.
• ¦ Drive timely resolution of review comments, issues, and design decisions.

• ¦ Lead engagement with airport departments, airlines, regulatory agencies, and key project stakeholders.
• ¦ Facilitate alignment of operational, commercial, technical, and customer experience requirements.
• ¦ Resolve conflicting stakeholder inputs and secure consensus on design decisions.
• ¦ Ensure stakeholder feedback is incorporated and tracked throughout the design process.

• ¦ Maintain and govern the Owner's Project Requirements and design criteria.
• ¦ Ensure design solutions align with operational, capacity, passenger experience, and maintenance objectives.
• ¦ Verify traceability of requirements throughout all design phases.
• ¦ Identify and address gaps between project requirements and proposed designs.

• ¦ Coordinate multidisciplinary reviews across architectural, structural, civil, MEP, and airport systems disciplines.
• ¦ Validate design completeness, coordination, and technical compliance.
• ¦ Consolidate review comments and oversee timely closure of design issues.
• ¦ Promote consistency and integration across all design packages.

• ¦ Manage critical interfaces between terminal, airfield, landside, utility, and operational systems.
• ¦ Identify and resolve design conflicts across disciplines and stakeholders.
• ¦ Ensure integration of airport operational, security, baggage, and technology systems.
• ¦ Coordinate design solutions that support uninterrupted airport operations.

• ¦ Implement design quality and assurance processes across all phases.
• ¦ Lead constructability, operability, and maintainability reviews.
• ¦ Verify compliance with airport standards, codes, and owner requirements.
• ¦ Drive continuous improvement in design quality and review effectiveness.

• ¦ Identify, assess, and communicate design-related risks and opportunities.
• ¦ Maintain visibility of critical design risks affecting cost, schedule, operations, and safety.
• ¦ Develop mitigation strategies in collaboration with designers and project teams.
• ¦ Escalate significant issues requiring executive action or decision-making.

• ¦ Ensure design development remains aligned with approved budgets and program objectives.
• ¦ Monitor scope growth and evaluate cost impacts of design decisions.
• ¦ Support value engineering and optimization initiatives.
• ¦ Balance operational requirements, quality, and cost considerations.

• ¦ Ensure compliance with aviation, security, building code, accessibility, and safety requirements.
• ¦ Coordinate regulatory reviews and approval processes.
• ¦ Verify incorporation of permitting and authority requirements into the design.
• ¦ Support resolution of compliance-related issues and design exceptions.

• ¦ Govern the review and approval of design changes, deviations, and…