Design Interface Manager

FITS, LLC; Carolina (PR); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

FITS, LLC is seeking an experienced engineer to lead the design-to-construction interface for large-scale projects in the engineering area. The role requires coordinating interfaces across enabling works, automated storage systems, equipment fit-out, and modular packages while managing deliverables and constructability inputs.

You will chair interface meetings, track design changes, and ensure timely responses to RFIs and field changes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Construction Management.
• PE license (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Manage the design-to-construction interface across all packages (Enabling Works, PC21, PC27 modular ASRS, equipment, fit-out).
• Maintain and enforce the design deliverables schedule; identify and elevate design slippage that threatens construction sequencing.
• Chair the design-construction interface meetings; ensure RFIs, field changes, and vendor-data submissions are turned around within agreed SLAs.
• Coordinate constructability reviews and value-engineering inputs from the field back to designers.
• Manage drawing revision control, IFC release governance, and red-line / as-built feedback loops.
• Interface with the BIM Coordinator/Technical Manager to ensure model coordination supports construction needs.
• Coordinate design inputs from major equipment vendors (ASRS, SDD, OSD, ancillary) into the overall design package.
• Track and report design-driven changes, scope creep, and impact on cost and schedule.

Skills

Leadership

Design management

Project coordination

Quality control

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

PE license

Tools

BIM coordination

Job description

For Design services in the Engineering area

WHAT MAKES YOU A FIT:

The Technical Part:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering , Engineering (Mechanical, Civil, Process), or Construction Management.
• PElicense (preferred).
• Shift: Administrativeand according to business needs.
• Experience in:
  • Capital projects, with significant time in both design and field/construction.
  • Track record managing design deliverables on large-scale projects (>$200M TIC).
  • GMP facility design, cleanroom classifications, and process equipment integration.

The Personality Part:

• If you consider yourself an ingenious and creative problem-solver with an uncanny ability to lead, then this is the job for you! Sprinkle on a love for the scientific method, teamwork, and, above all else, being ethical and you just might have what it takes to take on this new challenge. Bring it on!

AS A PIECE OF FITS, YOU WILL: (The day-to-day on the job)

• Manage the design-to-construction interface across all packages (Enabling Works, PC21, PC27 modular ASRS, equipment, fit-out).
• Maintain and enforce the design deliverables schedule; identify and elevate design slippage that threatens construction sequencing.
• Chair the design-construction interface meetings; ensure RFIs, field changes, and vendor-data submissions are turned around within agreed SLAs.
• Coordinate constructability reviews and value-engineering inputs from the field back to designers.
• Manage drawing revision control, IFC release governance, and red-line / as-built feedback loops.
• Interface with the BIM Coordinator/Technical Manager to ensure model coordination supports construction needs.
• Coordinate design inputs from major equipment vendors (ASRS, SDD, OSD, ancillary) into the overall design package.
• Track and report design-driven changes, scope creep, and impact on cost and schedule.