Position Summary
- The Design Manager is primarily responsible for managing the pre-development process, serves as the primary internal interface between construction and Development, and is the liaison with the external project consultants through the preconstruction phase.
Essential Functions/Responsibilities
- Work with the Development teams from project concept to completed construction documents, and ultimately, construction start.
- Assist the local Development team with zoning, entitlements, permitting, and other related tasks.
- Develop and maintain detailed pre-development schedules to outline and track progress and foster accountability on each project.
- Oversee and push the design process with internal and external consultants to secure complete project documents within the allotted timeframe.
- Work with Development during the contracting phase for the external consultants. This includes defining scopes of work, production schedules, schedule of values, scope of work coordination, etc.
- Coordinate with the in-house estimating team on the scope of work, budget control reports, cost evaluations, value engineering, GMP RFI’s, etc., at the appropriate touchpoints during the pre-development phase of each project.
- Maintain all pre-development logs and correspondence for projects in the pipeline.
- With Development, help create and maintain the project profile for each project.
- Provide guidance to each design team to communicate our design standards and pre-development processes.
- Assist the architect in establishing reoccurring design team meetings for each project. Our goal is, at a minimum, to hold every other meeting in person to push accountability.
- Ensure the architect has an agenda for project meetings and distributes meeting minutes soon after each meeting.
- Ensure that all assigned work, both internally and externally, is complete between each project meeting.
Education and/or Experience
- A bachelor’s degree in construction management, mathematics, architecture, civil engineering, or related business study is required.
- Five years of project and people management. Must have worked in the multifamily construction or development industry
