Design Manager

**Requisition ID**:88595

**Job Category**:Engineering

**Location**:Mississauga, ON, Canada

Join a company that is passionately committed to the pursuit of a better world through positive change. With more than 65 years of business and technical expertise in mining, energy, and infrastructure, our 10,000 colleagues in 150 countries tirelessly work toward bettering the industries in which we operate. With practical solutions that are safe, innovative and sustainable, we think globally while acting locally. Are you looking for an opportunity to join a diverse group of professionals who are committed to remaining exceptional? We look forward to hearing from you.

Our expertise in infrastructure includes aviation, highways and bridges, planning and advisory services, ports, rail and transit, tunnels, and water. Want to be part of the creation and construction of our cities? Then the infrastructure team is for you

Hatch is a global community of engineers, scientists, architects, and consultants committed to creating unprecedented outcomes for our clients in the pursuit of a better world through positive change.

As a Canadian company, Hatch has deep roots in the Greater Toronto & Hamilton Area. Hatch’s Transit practice is a leading contributor to the transit renaissance unfolding locally and around the world.

Reporting to Project Director, as
**Design Manager - Stations**, you will lead a multidisciplinary team of engineers and architects to deliver high-quality transit station design for our clients while adhering to technical requirements, schedule and commercial objectives. Our projects involve at-grade and underground transit stations, and intermodal transfer centres. The core responsibilities of the role include design leadership, project management, and client management.

A successful Design Manager will exhibit high emotional aptitude and empathetic leadership characteristics while demonstrating technical expertise.
- Be accountable for developing or verifying technical scope of a project and working with discipline leads to conceptualize technical components.
- Responsible to provide pricing during proposals, and subsequent work planning following project award to initiate design activities.
- Responsible for alignment of scheduled deliverables with Project Management Team and preparation of the design criteria for the discipline leads.
- Lead the design development and manage design teams and designers from feasibility/concept design through detailed design to Issue For Construction (IFC), lead the creation of design work plan and level of effort.
- Lead the detailed design of transit stations delivered under various procurement models including Design-Bid-Build, Design-Build, Construction Manager At Risk, Progressive Design-Build, and Alliance/Integrated Project Delivery (IPD).
- Manage a complete design lifecycle that considers project requirements, stakeholder obligations, client expectations, quality standards, and discipline-specific workflows.
- Develop and implement design management plans and contribute to project-wide management plans.
- Ensure fluid communication between the project management team, design team, partners and stakeholders.
- Chair design review workshops and coordinate associated inter-disciplinary review processes to gather conformance and constructability commentary, bring forward update and any critical issues to project management team.
- Enforce design quality and governance policies and promote best-practices among design team members.
- Coordinate design compliance through verification and validation of performance specifications.
- Identify value added design changes to positively support design-build projects across all disciplines.
- Verify the design schedule and budget matches the progress of professional services throughout execution. Control design budgets and associated scopes of work during the project.
- Coordinate construction phasing and mobility matters requirements with construction advisors to the extent related to design.
- Ensure change management processes are followed and contribute to change management activities including proactive change identification, quantification, impact assessment, and implementation strategies.
- Contribute to the project risk management processes and proactively identify design risks.
- Participate in Hatch’s Global Community of Practice (CoP) for Design Managers, including mentoring of Design Managers and Coordinators within the Transit Business Unit.
- During construction, responsible for liaison between contract administrator and engineering team. Coordinate issue resolution due to non-compliances with the drawings and specifications on site.

**You will bring to the role**:

- Degree in Engineering or Architecture
- P.Eng. or OAA designation
- Minimum 10 years of civil or architectural design lead on major infrastructure projects spanning feasibility/concept through detailed design to IFC, of which at least 5