Senior Design Manager

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities: The successful candidate must have experience working on building projects in the Middle East Region. Ideally the successful candidate will have been responsible for managing the design process in addition the candidate will support the PM with Client interaction on technical design issues. The Senior Design Manager will oversee the Design Brief and scope of work to ensure the design consultant(s) are delivering to the clients requirements. When necessary the Senior DM will manage develop and assist in the processing of sub consultant RFQs (bid stage or early design stage manage or provide technical support to PM for technical change requests RFIs and Instructions to the sub consultants as well as;Review of Design Consultant/Contractor design proposals and end-of-design-stage submissionsMonitor record and action recovery plans as necessary by regularly monitoring design progress against the project programme. The Senior DM will be responsible for highlighting any Red Flag items to the Regional Director Design Services as soon as these are identified. The Senior DM will also be responsible for ensuring collaboration between all disciplines (internal and external) to ensure the work is fully coordinated across the project and for monitoring the delivery programme.Compile and/or review technical reports for submission.Review all design packages prior to issuing same from the office to an external third party whether this be the Client Authorities or other parties outside of Stantec Provide final QA sign off from a technical perspective against contracted deliverables.Attend and lead regular design coordination meetings related to technical issues and may also be requested to support the PM in weekly Project meetings with the Client especially relating to technical matters.Be responsible for ensuring regular internal coordination meetings are attended by all key disciplines chair these sessions record potential design issues that need to be addressed before the next meeting or record and monitor until these risks are designed out. Maintain an up-to-date Design Issues log and review progress against each issue periodically.Facilitate the technical review of all design submissions and complete a review of related sub-consultant submittals. Prepare review reports as necessary and manage sub-consultant updates/corrections to close out.Support PM and prepare technical responses as required to the Client/Design Sub Consultant/Contractors Request for Information TQs etc.The Senior DM may also be requested to provide support to the Management Team in the bidding cycle and may be asked to review/prepare level of effort estimates for the required resources or provide a similar role for variation orders on live projects. Qualifications: BEng/BArch minimum in Architecture or a relevant engineering fieldMinimum of 10 years of post-graduate experience from an Architectural background or related engineering discipline which includes managing multiple multi-disciplinary design projects at the same time.Ideally trained/registered with UK/US/Australia/Canada Architecture or Engineering related professional body RIBA AIA ICE CIBSE IEE etc.Full Competency in Revit/Navisworks is preferable and any candidate without this skillset must be willing to undertake training or further develop this skillset to ensure multi-disciplinary design proposals can be reviewed in the BIM environment.Preferably from a Top Tier Multi-disciplinary Design Consultancy BackgroundProven Project Delivery history in the Middle East in a similar role/capacityExcellent communication skills both Verbally and in Written Format. Key Skills Lighting Design,FileMaker,Mobile Marketing,Sketchup,Relationship Management,Adobe Photoshop,Autocad,Adobe Illustrator,Team Management,Revit,Experience Design,Grasshopper Employment Type : Full Time Experience: years Vacancy: 1