Design Technology Manager

Placed at the heart of Gensler’s People + Process + Technology the Design Technology Community drives the firm’s digital transformation of our creative and project delivery practices across the globe. Our ultimate outcome is to co-create a design technology ecosystem that enables our practitioners to leverage the most advanced methodologies and technological solutions reaching a new level of creativity and delivering the most impactful designs to our clients. This is a great opportunity to join a team of innovators at an organization with a global impact, to contribute to world class design, and to help driving our firm’s ambitious commitments to climate resilience.
 

Your Role

Gensler is embarking on a multi-year, large scale, healthcare project with a very collaborative Owner-Architect-Contractor team. We are seeking a Design Technology Manager with in-depth knowledge of the entire design and construction process and a strong sense of innovation to support our Design Technology Leadership in managing a high level, world-class game changing project that will redefine patient care. The Design Technology Manager should exemplify leadership through a diverse portfolio of large-scale collaborative projects, experience with Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and Big Room concept, as well as the proven ability to work with large project teams.

The Design Technology Manager is a multifaceted role that provides project technical leadership, strategic vision and deep tactical expertise in the design technology and digital project delivery space.  As a Design Technology Manager, you will champion the strategy, implementation, and management of all aspects of a long-term, high-profile project delivery, acting as a liaison between internal and external stakeholders, author of critical project related documents / standards, as well as upholding the highest level of design and execution of project.
 

What You Will Do

• Leadership and management in Virtual Design & Construction (VDC) and BIM Implementation / Execution on large complex projects.

• Prioritize and align the project design technology initiatives with the impact of the project delivery needs.

• Understanding the appropriate roles of an Owner-Architect-Contractor (O-A-C) team, and O-A-C collaborative IPD project delivery model.

• Authoring, advisory, and executing BIM and Design Technology Implementation Strategy on large complex projects.

• Ability to articulate and report on key performance indicators of Design Technology practices across all projects involved.

• Lead design teams, as well as construction teams through a properly executed Design Technology Strategy.

• Meet regularly with all project stakeholders including Client, Construction Manager team, and individual BIM Managers.

• Work with Project Teams Leadership to review contracts, BEP, Project Standards, and other documents to address the Digital Design aspect for project delivery.

• Work with the Regional Design Technology Leadership to incorporate workflows, best practices and content shared across the project and firm. 

• Oversee the implementation of training needs within the project team.

• Lead a rigorous implementation of collaboration platforms like Autodesk Construction Cloud.

• Execution of digital fluency between applications to eliminate digital waste.

• Agile production workflows using automation and similar techniques to approach complex tasks and problem solving.
   

Your Qualifications​

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture or equivalent, with 10+ years of experience in design and/or construction practice preferred. Licensed professional preferred.

• 5 years of proven experience in complex project-specific parametric BIM workflow from start to finish in all phases of design and delivery.

• Expert knowledge of, and proven practical background in, Autodesk Revit Architecture and related BIM software (Navisworks, BIM 360/Autodesk Construction Cloud Workflow)

• Knowledge of design applications such as SketchUp, Rhino, Visual Programming (Dynamo / Grasshopper), Project Visualization tools, Generative Design tools and how they may best work together.

• Expert in implementing and supporting design collaboration platforms such as design authoring tools in a virtual environment, Panzura collaboration, AEC cloud-based products (ACC, Docs, Coordinate and Build).

• Articulate communicator, able to convey Design Technology concepts to all levels of design and delivery leadership.

• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to listen and drive consensus through relationship building and ability to