Senior Design Manager – Dubai Parking & Infrastructure

Mace Group; Abu Dhabi; Hybrid; AED 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Mace Group in the United Arab Emirates is seeking a senior design manager to lead the design development of major car parking structures, taking concepts through detailed design, procurement, and construction.

You will oversee multidisciplinary design teams, establish design programmes, and ensure coordination with procurement, construction, and authorities while maintaining buildability and programme alignment.

Qualifications

• Degree-qualified in architecture or a relevant built-environment discipline.
• Chartered membership with a relevant institution is advantageous.
• Significant experience in design management on major, complex projects.
• Experience taking projects from concept to construction.
• Strong understanding of coordination across disciplines.
• Experience with parking structures or transport facilities is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing design management of major car parking projects from concept through detailed design and construction.
• Managing the transition from concept design into coordinated, procurement- and construction-ready design information.
• Coordinating multidisciplinary design consultants across architecture, structural, civil, MEP, transport, fire and life safety.
• Establishing design programmes, deliverables, responsibilities, and review gateways.
• Driving coordination between disciplines and resolving design clashes and interfaces.
• Ensuring buildability, sequencing, logistics, procurement strategy, and construction methodology.
• Leading design reviews, workshops, constructability reviews and value engineering.
• Coordinating BIM and digital design processes to support coordination and approvals.

Skills

Design management

BIM coordination

Multidisciplinary coordination

Procurement coordination

Constructability reviews

Value engineering

Project leadership

Education

Architecture degree

Chartered membership

Tools

BIM

Job description

Mace Group in the United Arab Emirates is seeking a senior design manager to lead the design development of major car parking structures, taking concepts through detailed design, procurement, and construction.

You will oversee multidisciplinary design teams, establish design programmes, and ensure coordination with procurement, construction, and authorities while maintaining buildability and programme alignment.