What are the responsibilities and job description for the Design Manager Job at Evans General Contractors in Alpharetta position at Evans General Contractors?
Summary
The Design Manager is a high-profile representative of Evans General Contractors, LLC who is responsible for supporting design-build efforts across all market segments within the business. The Design Manager will manage external and internal design resources and activities to ensure that all aspects of the design progress as planned with no gaps in scope. The Design Manager will hold regular progress check-ins with design resources and other project stakeholders to track progress, identify issues, and manage the execution plan. The Design Manager should foster an environment of collaboration to identify and troubleshoot potential challenges early so that coordination and quality are maintained through the design phase. This position can be based in our Atlanta, Charlotte, or Dallas Office.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Support engagement of design resources through solicitation of proposals for design services. Evaluate proposals and support the development of contract documents for a design agreement.
- Prior to kickoff, examine available information from the Owner to identify potential gaps, confirm scope and deliverables, engage the appropriate stakeholders, establish communications, and devise a regular schedule of goal-oriented meetings.
- Lead design kickoff meeting to align design resources and engage the Owner group to establish the overarching design principles governing the project as well as critical issues and milestones.
- Develop a Design Execution Plan that will guide the teams and allow Evans to know when the schedule is slipping or when scope is underdeveloped. The design execution plan will include a live tracking schedule with task dependencies in tandem with a design workplan outlining biweekly measurable activities that are reviewed in Owner / consultant meetings to obtain Owner feedback and gauge progress.
- Develop and manage a design decisions log as a live document outlining issues, identifying risk exposures and actions. Update the log regularly to report on design status, take corrective measures, and record decisions.
- Track and report design progress against fee to project stakeholders. Review consultants and subconsultants design hours or fee spent to gauge percent complete on activities and deliverables and track earned value of the design services.
- Review project with key stakeholders and work collaboratively to solve issues and clear roadblocks in real-time so that the entire team can meet the schedule with an aligned level of completeness.
Lead and manage meetings as necessary to communicate progress, solicit feedback, and develop design according to the agreed schedule. This would include, but not limited to, the following :
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Evans General Contractors, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.
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