Senior Design Manager

GHD; Whitby; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

GHD is seeking a Senior Design Manager to lead water/wastewater projects in the Greater Toronto Area. This role involves managing project delivery, ensuring compliance with client and engineering standards, and fostering communication across multi-disciplinary teams. Join GHD and contribute to meaningful community changes while advancing your career in an inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of design management experience on large municipal water/wastewater projects.
• Experience with engineering disciplines and project design required.
• Knowledge of scheduling and estimating techniques an asset.

Responsibilities

• Manage multi-disciplinary project delivery for municipal water/wastewater projects.
• Ensure compliance with design processes and quality control.
• Communicate effectively with project teams and stakeholders.

Skills

Verbal Communication

Written Communication

Organizational Skills

Problem Solving

Technical Proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

Scheduling Software

Building Information Modelling (BIM)

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Job Description

Help us build the future and we’ll help you build a rewarding and purposeful career.

Our global network is made up of architects, designers, planners, engineers, and environmental scientists all working towards the same goal.

Job Description

Help us build the future and we’ll help you build a rewarding and purposeful career.

Our global network is made up of architects, designers, planners, engineers, and environmental scientists all working towards the same goal.

Join a team that brings inspirational architecture, landscapes, townscapes and places to our world, and we’ll provide you unlimited space to grow.

Who are we looking for?

Due to continuing growth in our Water/Wastewater practice, our EDO (Engineering Design Organization) is looking for a dynamic and motivated individual to take on the role of Senior Design Manager – Water/Wastewater based out of the GTA or our Waterloo office.

In the problem solving business, it helps to be restlessly curious to deliver community change.

Our vision is to ensure energy, water and urbanization are made sustainable for generations to come. You can lead the way into a new future for our industry, inspiring the next generation of driven and committed people in the process.

Learn About Leadership Opportunities With GHD.

Working with an energetic and high performing team, this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in:

• Responsible for managing multi-disciplinary project delivery for municipal water/wastewater projects to produce a compliant, constructible design in accordance with Client requirements, Operation and Maintenance requirements and Construction requirements
• Ensure the design produced follows appropriate engineering processes, including GHD and Project specific processes
• Responsible for coordinating Quality Control of all deliverable submittals in accordance with GHD’s Quality Management System
• Responsible for developing or verifying the technical scope of a project and working with disciplines to provide pricing during proposal, and subsequently work planning following project award to initiate design activities
• Participate actively in the preparation and adherence to a schedule of deliverables in collaboration with the Project Controls team
• Responsible for managing the engineering design budget and providing key inputs to the Project Controls team
• Responsible for implementing and following the project’s Change Control system, including proactive escalation of potential changes
• Participate to continuously review and improve the overall project strategy to meet design schedule and budget with the ability to support staging and phasing requirements.
• Ensure fluid communication between the project management team, the design team, construction team and the various internal and external stakeholders as engineering elements
• Verifies that the schedule and budget data match the progress of the professional services throughout execution of the project.
• Coordinates the preparation of the design criteria by the team leads
• Lead the creation and execution of design work plan and level of effort (LOE).
• Convenes, chairs and documents interdisciplinary design coordination meetings and brings forward updates and any critical issues that impact external stakeholders to the Project Manager.
• May serve as liaison between the construction contract administrator and engineering team during construction. Coordinates multidisciplinary problem resolution resulting from non-compliance with drawings and specifications at the site.
  
  

What you will bring to the team:

• Bachelor’s (B.Sc.) degree or equivalent from a recognized college or university
• 10+ years of design management experience on large ($50M+), multi-discipline engineering teams for municipal water/wastewater projects within Canada
• Technical proficiency and previous project design experience in one or more discipline (civil, structural, architectural, process mechanical, building mechanical, electrical, or instrumentation & control) considered an asset
• Knowledge of scheduling software and engineering and capital cost estimating techniques is a definite asset.
• Member of the PEO, an important asset
• Experience with Building Information Modelling (BIM) on multi-discipline projects
• The ability to deal with uncertainty, changing and multiple priorities
• Strong skills in verbal and written communication
• Strong organizational skills
  
  

As a diverse and inclusive organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. Upon request, GHD will provide reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management, Consulting, and Engineering

• Industries

  Civil Engineering, Industrial Machinery Manufacturing, and Environmental Services

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