Senior Design Project Leader

Haskell; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Haskell is seeking a Senior Project Design Manager in the Jacksonville area to lead design projects from proposal through closeout. You will guide a multidisciplinary team and ensure compliance with contract requirements while maintaining schedules and communicating clearly with clients.

The role emphasizes leadership, advanced design management, and client relationship building, with a focus on safe work practices in field and design environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or architecture preferred.
• Typically 10+ years in a design discipline with progression to independent lead designer and prior design project management experience.

Responsibilities

• Guides career development, monitors workload and conducts regular performance management discussions for assigned team members.
• Ensures 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 affecting 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

Design project management

Leadership

Independent work

Time management

Client relations

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or architecture

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Haskell is seeking a Senior Project Design Manager in the Jacksonville area to lead design projects from proposal through closeout. You will guide a multidisciplinary team and ensure compliance with contract requirements while maintaining schedules and communicating clearly with clients.

The role emphasizes leadership, advanced design management, and client relationship building, with a focus on safe work practices in field and design environments.