Senior Design Manager, Advanced Industries AFG

Best People + Right Culture. These are the driving forces behind JE Dunn’s success.

By hiring inspired people, giving them interesting and challenging work, enabling them with innovative tools, and letting them share in the company’s rewards, we’ve found a sustainable way to grow in our industry for the last 100+ years.

JE Dunn’s Advanced Facilities Group (AFG) combines Mission Critical, Advanced Industries, and Industrial & Manufacturing into one high-performing team focused on cutting‑edge work to serve innovative clients on large Industrial & Manufacturing, Data Center, and Semiconductor projects. As part of the Advanced Facilities team, you'll work on some of the most advanced construction projects across the country, growing your career alongside our diverse team of industry professionals.

The Senior Design Manager is responsible for successful delivery of projects by leading the design teams, trade partners, process and technology when projects utilize design-build, design assist or other alternate delivery methods. This position requires proactive leadership of the design process from initial business development phase through project completion. The Senior Design Manager plays an integral role with project team ensuring project goals are achieved.

All activities will be performed in support of the strategy, vision and values of JE Dunn.

• Autonomy & Decision Making:
  Makes decisions within defined limits of authority and consults supervisor on other decisions
• Career Path:
  Design Manager Director

• Detail new-project scoping and engineering development:
  Work with engineering design team to fully scope projects before project start, reducing programming effort.
• Conduct reviews and consult with Preconstruction Estimating to establish the project budget and scope.
• Design Engineering Management:
  Lead bid development and award, source engineering services, and maintain adequate engineering-support staffing.
• Design Project Management:
  Maintain deliverable scope, quality, and schedule; review deliverables and manage Bluebeam reviews; manage permitting plan so AHJ (authorities having jurisdiction) issues are addressed and schedule is achieved; incorporate lessons learned and revise processes to respond to client and engineering‑staff changes.
• Operations support:
  Review and lead resolution of engineering‑related RFIs, ensure engineering responses are valid and preserve project scope, schedule, and budget.
• Project risk reduction:
  Maintain engineering‑project and construction‑delivery scope, schedule, and budget; manage the client to maintain scope control; and support and drive long‑lead equipment purchasing on progressive‑build projects.
• Design activity reporting and knowledge support:
  Report on all design activities to the OAC, support owner reporting requirements with owner management team representatives and provide design and engineering knowledge support to the owner and management team.

• Interprets formal design build RFPs and develops internal work plans, collaborating with preconstruction, operations, and other key stakeholders.
• Understands potential client’s business needs and helps create or coordinate conceptual plans, elevations, and 3D models in support of presentations and win strategies.
• Reviews and understands bridging documents for project compliance with RFP, including comprehension of codes and criteria to meet technical requirements and design deliverables.
• Supports early‑phase basic due diligence activities with clients and key stakeholders to ensure professional studies, jurisdictional and permitting requirements are incorporated into design…