Senior Design Manager — Lead Large-Scale Projects

The Haskell Company; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Professional development

Job summary

The Haskell Company in Salt Lake City is seeking a Senior Project Design Manager to lead large design projects from proposal through closeout. You will guide a multidisciplinary team, manage schedules and budgets, and ensure design quality aligns with client needs and contracts.

With 10+ years of design PM experience and a background in engineering or architecture, you will drive performance, mentor staff, and build strong client relationships while upholding safety and excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or architecture preferred.
• 10+ years of experience to include time as lead designer and prior design project management experience.
• PM certification desired (PMP) but not required.

Responsibilities

• Guides career development, monitors workload and conducts regular performance management discussions for assigned team members.
• Ensures the compliance with all Prime Contract requirements.
• Develops, monitors, and updates an efficiently sequenced project design schedule and regularly advises the project team of changes.
• Assures design consultants are prequalified.
• Prepares Professional Service Agreements for design consultants that minimize risk to the Company.
• Evaluates and distributes changes/add services effecting project scope and schedule.
• Prepares clear and concise project communications, oral and written.
• Builds positive working relationships with current clients, internal and external, establishing a relationship of trust.
• Understands the client’s business needs to seek future work.
• Displays a commitment to safe work practices both during design document development and in the field.
• Facilitates and monitors design reviews of documents to ensure project quality objectives are achieved.
• Utilizes standard project management tools and techniques that comply with all company policies from proposal through close-out.
• Forecasts and reports project financial performance and reviews with design business unit leaders and project leaders (for integrated projects).
• Solicits input from practice areas for development of fee proposal or change order requests/add services.

Skills

Project management

Team leadership

Client relations

Scheduling

Communication

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or architecture

Tools

Drawing production software

MS Word

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

The Haskell Company in Salt Lake City is seeking a Senior Project Design Manager to lead large design projects from proposal through closeout. You will guide a multidisciplinary team, manage schedules and budgets, and ensure design quality aligns with client needs and contracts.

With 10+ years of design PM experience and a background in engineering or architecture, you will drive performance, mentor staff, and build strong client relationships while upholding safety and excellence.