Assistant Design Manager

PACT (Pearson Accelerator Construction Team) is a General Partnership of Alberici, Amico, Kenaidan, and Obayashi, supported by design partners Egis, Mott MacDonald, and Weston Williamson + Partners. Together, we are delivering Accelerator, a major program of Pearson LIFT (Long-term Investment in Facilities and Terminals), Toronto Pearson's infrastructure development plan. This multi-year program is designed to address immediate passenger growth demands while preparing Canada’s largest airport for the future of air travel—including critical upgrades to airfield and infrastructure, greenhouse gas reduction initiatives, modernization of Terminals 1 and 3, and the creation of a world-class passenger experience.

JOB SUMMARY The Assistant Design Manager will support the Design Manager in the successful delivery of the Interim Infrastructure Sub-Program within the Accelerator Program. The role will provide day-to-day design management and interdisciplinary coordination support across multiple projects and technical disciplines, ensuring that design activities, stakeholder requirements, constructability considerations, cost inputs, risks, and deliverables are effectively coordinated and aligned with contractual requirements and program priorities.

The Assistant Design Manager will work closely with the Design Managers from the DJV and CJV teams to facilitate timely resolution of issues and maintain alignment between design development and construction delivery.

The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment and has strong experience coordinating complex infrastructure and/or building systems projects. They bring a proactive, positive, and solutions-oriented approach, with the ability to work effectively across large and diverse project teams. They understand that successful project delivery requires more than a technically sound design and are able to take a holistic view of project priorities, including constructability, cost, schedule, stakeholder requirements, risk, quality, and client objectives.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Support the Design Manager in managing interdisciplinary design coordination in accordance with the contract requirements, design management procedures, and project objectives.

Monitor design coordination activities and proactively identify issues, gaps, and interfaces requiring management attention.

Ensure design teams understand and maintain alignment with project priorities, requirements, milestones, and deliverables.

Support the implementation and maintenance of design coordination processes, including action tracking, interface management, design reviews, and issue resolution.

Escalate significant design issues, risks, or potential impacts to the Design Manager in a timely manner.

Support the Design Manager in managing the full lifecycle of design development from concept through Issued for Construction (IFC).

Support effective communication between the design team and project stakeholders to facilitate timely decisions and resolution of outstanding matters.

Monitor design deliverables against established milestones, stage gates, and project schedules.

Facilitate collaboration between design, construction, procurement, project controls, and operations teams.

Assist with management of design interfaces between multiple workstreams, contracts, and sub-programs.

Ensure design changes that may affect construction activities, sequencing, access, phasing, procurement, or cost are appropriately identified and communicated.

Support the construction team in obtaining timely design clarifications and coordinate responses with the appropriate design disciplines.

Identify design risks, conflicts, and constraints and escalates issues to design managers and sub-program leadership.

Support implementation of design assurance and quality management processes.

Participate in value engineering, design optimization, and constructability review initiatives.

Coordinate and track design submissions through all project stages, including concept design, schematic design, design Development, construction documentation, and IFC packages

Follow up with design disciplines to keep deliverables on track and support timely recovery of at-risk activities.

Identify dependencies between design activities, stakeholder decisions, procurement, construction, cost, and other program functions. Assist with preparation of design status reports, dashboards, and management presentations.

Support implementation of the BIM Execution Plan (BEP).

Participate in 3D model integration, clash detection reviews and resolution processes.

Ensure design information is properly managed within project document management systems.

Support digital coordination initiatives that improve design quality