Design Manager

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**Who we are looking for**:
Due to continuing growth in our Water/Wastewater practice, our EDO (Engineering Design Organization) is looking for a dynamic and motivated individual to take on the role of **Design Manager - Water/Wastewater**based out of any of our **GTA**offices - **Waterloo, Toronto, Mississauga, Markham, Whitby**.

Working with an energetic and high performing team, this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in:

- Responsible for managing multi-disciplinary project delivery for municipal water/wastewater projects to produce a compliant, constructible design in accordance with Client requirements, Operation and Maintenance requirements and Construction requirements
- Ensure the design produced follows appropriate engineering processes, including GHD and Project specific processes
- Responsible for coordinating Quality Control of all deliverable submittals in accordance with GHD’s Quality Management System
- Responsible for developing or verifying the technical scope of a project and working with disciplines to provide pricing during proposal, and subsequently work planning following project award to initiate design activities
- Participate actively in the preparation and adherence to a schedule of deliverables in collaboration with the Project Controls team
- Responsible for managing the engineering design budget and providing key inputs to the Project Controls team
- Responsible for implementing and following the project’s Change Control system, including proactive escalation of potential changes
- 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.
- Ensure fluid communication between the project management team, the design team, construction team and the various internal and external stakeholders as engineering elements
- Verifies that the schedule and budget data match the progress of the professional services throughout execution of the project.
- Coordinates the preparation of the design criteria by the team leads
- Lead the creation and execution of design work plan and level of effort (LOE).
- Convenes, chairs and documents interdisciplinary design coordination meetings and brings forward updates and any critical issues that impact external stakeholders to the Project Manager.
- May serve as liaison between the construction contract administrator and engineering team during construction. Coordinates multidisciplinary problem resolution resulting from non-compliance with drawings and specifications at the site.

What you will bring to the team**:

- Bachelor’s (B.Sc.) degree or equivalent from a recognized college or university
- 7+ years of design management experience on large ($25M-$50M+), multi-discipline engineering teams for municipal water/wastewater projects within Canada
- Technical proficiency and previous project design experience in one or more discipline (civil, structural, architectural, process mechanical, building mechanical, electrical, or instrumentation & control) considered an asset
- Knowledge of scheduling software and engineering and capital cost estimating techniques is a definite asset.
- Member of the PEO, an important asset
- Experience with Building Information Modelling (BIM) on multi-discipline projects
- The ability to deal with uncertainty, changing and multiple priorities
- Strong skills in verbal and written communication
- Strong organizational skills

As a diverse and inclusive organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. Upon request, GHD will provide reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process.

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