Design Manager

2 days ago


Waterloo, Ontario, Canada GHD Full time
Main Responsibilities:

As a Design Manager - Rail and Transit, you will be responsible for leading multi-disciplinary project delivery for complex station DB/P3 projects to produce compliant, constructible designs in accordance with Client requirements, Operation and Maintenance requirements, and Construction requirements.

You will ensure the design produced follows appropriate engineering processes, including GHD and Project specific processes. You will also coordinate Quality Control of all deliverable submittals in accordance with GHD's Quality Management System.

Additionally, you will be accountable for developing or verifying the technical scope of a project and working with subject areas to provide pricing during proposal, and subsequently work planning following project award to initiate design activities.

You will participate actively in the preparation and alignment to a schedule of deliverables in collaboration with the Project Controls team. You will also be responsible for managing the engineering design budget and providing key inputs to the Project Controls team.

Furthermore, you will be responsible for implementing and following the project's Change Control system, including proactive escalation of potential changes. You will participate to continuously review and improve the overall project strategy to meet design schedule and budget with the ability to support staging and phasing requirements.

You will ensure fluid communication between the project management team, the design team, construction team, and the various internal and external partners. You will verify that the schedule and budget data match the progress of the professional services throughout execution of the project.

You will coordinate the preparation of the design criteria by the team leads. You will lead the creation and execution of design work plan and level of effort (LOE). You will convene, chair, and document interdisciplinary design coordination meetings and bring forward updates and any critical issues that impact external partners to the Project Manager.

You may serve as liaison between the construction contract administrator and engineering team during construction. You will coordinate multidisciplinary problem resolution resulting from non-compliance with drawings and specifications at the site.

You will coordinate design compliance through verification and validation of performance specifications. You will identify value-added design changes to positively support design-build projects across all subject areas.

Qualifications:

You will have a Bachelor's degree or equivalent from a recognized college or university in Civil, Structural, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering. You will be a member of the PEO or OAA in Province of Ontario.

You will have design management experience on LRT projects within Canada. You will have project delivery in an alternate project delivery (P3, DB), and experience in leading design team arrangements with contractors and consultants.

You will have 7+ years of design management experience on large multi-discipline engineering teams (500 mil +) with experience in complex station design and transit facilities.

You will have understanding of depots (bus and rail), stations (at grade, elevated, and underground), electrification, and signaling. You will have knowledge of scheduling software and engineering and capital cost estimating techniques.

You will have experience with Building Information Modelling (BIM) on multi-discipline projects. You will have the ability to deal with uncertainty, changing, and multiple priorities.

You will have strong verbal and written communication skills. You will have experience with reviewing, understanding, and challenging Performance Specific Out Specifications.

You will have strong organizational skills.



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