Overview In this role you will lead the integration of design and construction teams to deliver coordinated, constructible designs on schedule and within budget. You will support advanced delivery models and drive design risk management and project readiness for execution. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain quality, safety, and alignment with program goals. This is a opportunity to shape data center projects at scale within a respected, family-owned firm with strong training resources.
Compensation / Benefits- health and welfare benefits
- generous profit-sharing/401k plan
- Gilbane University training opportunities
- career growth and leadership development
- multidisciplinary project exposure
- competitive compensation
Responsibilities- Serve as primary liaison between design and construction during proposals
- Lead design-services strategy and integration of consultants or design/build trades
- Define technical scope, manage RFIs, and ensure bridging documents
- Develop and maintain design deliverable schedules
- Validate A/E scope and fee structures; support Teaming Agreements
- Coordinate with estimating to break down RFPs and pricing
- Assemble Endorsed Project Baseline (proposal, estimate, contract, schedule)
- Oversee design progression to meet budget, schedule, constructability
- Facilitate design charrettes and owner approvals
- Coordinate permitting and track related schedules
- Monitor design changes to minimize scope creep
- Lead design risk management with cost-benefit analyses for RFIs/changes
- Ensure Health & Safety integration in design and logistics
- Align VDC and design teams for digital modeling and constructability reviews
- Maintain tracking for design issues and changes
- Promote design-build mindset and cross-discipline collaboration
- Oversee and validate design team invoices
- Communicate design scope and intent to construction teams
- Support development of construction budgets from design estimates
- Assist in trade contractor/supplier scope and procurement
- Resolve scope conflicts and develop recovery plans
- Ensure design responsiveness to field issues and risk-mitigation measures
- Oversee design QA/QC for regulatory and standards compliance
- Improve documentation of design basis and assumptions
- Emphasize delivering the proposed design and managing scope changes
Key requirements- Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, or related field; advanced degree preferred
- 10+ years' experience in design/project management for large-scale construction
- Proven experience with advanced delivery models (Design-Build, IPD, P3, EPC)
- Strong understanding of design-to-budget, constructability, and risk management
- Experience establishing and executing departmental processes and procedures
- Experience with Assumptions Management, Change Management, requirement tracking, and Corrective Action Programs
- Excellent communication, leadership, and team-building skills
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and drive consensus
- Proficiency in design and construction management software/tools
- communication
- leadership
- team-building
- design management
- risk management
- constructability review
