Design Manager, Federal Facilities & A/E Coordination

Procon Consulting; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental insurance

401(k) plan

Salary commensurate with experience

Job summary

Procon Consulting in Washington, DC seeks an experienced Design Manager to support a federal facilities team. You will plan, coordinate, review, and manage design activities across multiple facility and construction projects, serving as a key liaison between stakeholders, Architects/Engineers, and project management to ensure design requirements are clearly defined and carried through each phase.

The role emphasizes coordinating multidisciplinary design teams, developing SOWs, managing design

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, project management, or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of professional design management experience.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary design teams with architectural, structural, mechanical/HVAC, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, controls, and other disciplines.
• Experience coordinating with A/E firms and managing design submissions, stakeholder reviews, comment resolution, and interdisciplinary coordination.
• Strong understanding of design development, construction documents, constructability, and the overall design and construction process.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate design activities across multiple facility and construction projects of varying size, scope, and complexity.
• Work with project stakeholders to identify, develop, confirm, and document project design requirements.
• Develop and/or support the development of Statements of Work (SOWs) for architectural, engineering, and facility projects.
• Serve as a primary coordination point with A/E firms throughout the design process.
• Manage design submission cycles, including distributing design packages, coordinating stakeholder reviews, consolidating comments, and tracking comment resolution.
• Coordinate design meetings and document key decisions, requirements, action items, and outstanding issues.
• Perform multidisciplinary reviews of drawings, specifications, studies, and other technical design documents for coordination, constructability, completeness, and potential impacts to project scope, cost, schedule, and facility operations.
• Identify and coordinate interdisciplinary issues involving architectural, structural, mechanical/HVAC, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, controls, civil/site, and other disciplines.
• Develop and maintain design schedules, milestone trackers, requirements matrices, comment/resolution logs, design deliverable trackers, action-item logs, and risk registers.
• Monitor design progress and proactively identify risks, conflicts, and issues requiring management attention.
• Prepare monthly design status reports summarizing progress, outstanding decisions, design risks, and upcoming milestones.
• Support design acceptance, procurement planning, and the transition of projects from design into construction.
• Provide quality-assurance reviews of A/E deliverables while maintaining the A/E firm's responsibility as Designer of Record for technical accuracy, code compliance, and professional design requirements

Skills

Stakeholder management

Design coordination

Constructability knowledge

Communication skills

Organization

Problem solving

Multidisciplinary coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/architecture/construction management/project management

Job description

Procon Consulting in Washington, DC seeks an experienced Design Manager to support a federal facilities team. You will plan, coordinate, review, and manage design activities across multiple facility and construction projects, serving as a key liaison between stakeholders, Architects/Engineers, and project management to ensure design requirements are clearly defined and carried through each phase.

The role emphasizes coordinating multidisciplinary design teams, developing SOWs, managing design