Sr. Design Manager - Government

Overview

Are you ready to move your career forward, and start the BEST job of your life? Haskell is committed to providing you with the resources to help you grow and discover your potential. We promote an environment that encourages innovative ideas and allows you to develop the best “how” to get the job done. 

Haskell’s Design & Consulting Team unites architecture, engineering, and consulting professionals from across industries and geographies. Our diverse and innovative team allows Haskell to serve our clients with multiple project delivery methods including design-build, engineer-procure-construct, fee-for-service, or consulting services. These services allow our team to form a strong rapport with clients, marshalling them as they grow and helping them address industry and market challenges. The Design & Consulting Team serves a diverse set of markets including food and beverage, consumer products, aviation and aerospace, civil infrastructure, healthcare, and Federal Government projects. As a team member at Haskell, you’ll have the opportunity to work on impactful projects that will challenge your creativity, innovation, and expand your skill set.

 

 

Job Responsibilities:

• Application of Knowledge
  • Directs and is accountable for all aspects of the design effort on a project for the disciplines assigned including conformance of project systems and components with all relevant project criteria
  • Responsible for coordination among disciplines and conformance to corporate standards for design documents (e.g., calculations, drawing, and specification production)
• Client Management
  • Directs and is accountable for criteria acquisition from the client, distribution to the AE team, and communicating appropriate responses following review
  • Operates as primary client interface during design
  • Ensures meeting minutes are produced to document all client meetings
  • Where client needs and services are not defined, seeks to understand client criteria and documents what is needed for effective delivery of the project
  • Directs and is accountable for conformance of project systems and components with project criteria. Negotiates issue resolutions among design disciplines and between design and construction staff
  • Maintains a positive client relationship
  • Develops potential future work opportunities
• Construction Support
  • Monitoring of design team response to Requests for Information and submittal review time
  • Assists in prioritizing critical responses
  • When assigned, track cost, scheduling, and purchasing of equipment and services
  • When assigned, supervise or participate in installations and start-up
• Change Management
  • Responsible for design scope change definition and management and impact to schedule and financial performance
  • Documents all changes in scope by terms of the contract
• Financial
  • Develops design budget, fees, and scopes with input from the project design team and is responsible for design financial performance
  • Utilizes company standard procedures and software to project financial performance monthly
  • Monitors weekly fee burn rate weekly for short-duration projects and proposals
  • Ensures Owner is invoiced by terms of the contract (design only projects)
  • Selects, negotiate with, manages, and directs the work of outside consultants when needed for project expertise or workload
  • Monitors project cash flow
  • Communicates with project manager/project director on financial status as appropriate
• Scheduling
  • Coordinates staff allocation to projects with other design project managers and AE business unit leaders
  • Develops, in conjunction with the overall project schedule, the design schedule
  • Provides regular schedule updates to the design team
  • For proposal efforts, working with the Project Executive determines the schedule for proposal pricing and deliverables
  • Directs and is accountable for design schedule compliance. Negotiates scheduling conflict resolution among design disciplines and between design and construction staff
• Strategy
  • Participates in developing and executing a “win strategy” for proposals
  • Participates in marketing and business development efforts as assigned
  • Seeks innovative ways to provide the design deliverables
  • Directs and is accountable for the development of and compliance with a comprehensive and cohesive drawing and specifications production strategy
  • Participates in the formulation of design project management corporate policies and procedures
• Leadership
  • Supervises personnel as