Design Management Intern: Bridge Design & Construction Teams

The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company; Newport News (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company is seeking a Design Manager to balance design and build, lead a healthy integrated team, and promote idea sharing and professionalism on complex projects.

You will support design management activities, assist with programming, code reviews, constructability, and value engineering while ensuring project goals align with quality, budget, and schedule constraints.

Qualifications

• Exposure to design in a professional setting is recommended but not required.

Responsibilities

• Be an integrated team player and look for new, innovative ways to improve our approach, balancing design and build to benefit our customers.
• Facilitate a healthy integrated team structure and workflow
• Observe day-to-day activities of how a Design Manager builds trust between themselves and every team member, and seeks creating an environment of idea sharing, fairness, and professionalism
• Assist with updating and maintaining WT Design Management tools and resources
• Assist with design team networking and selection
• Attend construction meetings and conduct site walks with the design team
• Help WT project team with design-related issues during construction
• Ensure design team completes their project construction phase and close-out commitments
• Track follow-up items for A/E team action and information needed from WT, subcontractors, vendors, and/or the client to keep the design moving forward

Skills

Team collaboration

Project coordination

Design management

Communication

Meeting facilitation

Construction knowledge

BIM awareness

Education

Architecture or similar design major

Tools

Autodesk Revit

AutoCAD

Navisworks

Primavera P6

MS Office

Job description

The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company is seeking a Design Manager to balance design and build, lead a healthy integrated team, and promote idea sharing and professionalism on complex projects.

You will support design management activities, assist with programming, code reviews, constructability, and value engineering while ensuring project goals align with quality, budget, and schedule constraints.