Senior Design Manager
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Job Description:
Parsons is looking for an experience Senior Design Manager to join our team! In this role you will get to Serves as Lead Designer for all phases of a project. Provides technical guidance to project design and drafting personnel, and functions as liaison with client, suppliers, and contractors regarding design issues.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Coordinates execution of work assignments with respect to design approach, schedules, standards, budgets, and procedures to meet client scope of work requirements. Provides manpower estimates as required.
- Provides technical guidance to project design team in completing the most complex and difficult designs and layouts for complete systems and components of a project. Assignments typically involve design elements for which there may be no clearly established precedents and require anticipation of problems at the outset in order to provide appropriate solutions.
- Ensures compliance with required specifications, tolerances, safety factors, and industry codes, as well as client requirements and company standards.
- Performs specialized design computations and analysis within a given discipline.
- Performs interdisciplinary reviews and provides coordination of data to ensure a compatible design.
- Provides direction to a team of checking personnel, ensuring the mathematical accuracy of the drawings produced. Participates in checking orthographic (2D) and isometric (3D) drawings prepared by others.
- Understands and applies commonly used company design standards and methods. Provides input to the establishment or revision of guidelines and standards.
- Collaborates with Engineers and other engineering disciplines to ensure quality of design.
- Reviews supplier data and supplier/manufacturer drawings, as required.
- May train lower-level Designers in various procedures.
What Required Skills You'll Bring:
- Bachelor's degree in Architectural or Engineering (or related field) with a strong background in managing the technical design process across multiple work packages.
- 10+ years of related work experience, including supervisory/managerial experience
- Robust personality who is able to manage senior stakeholders (internal and external) as well as leading a number of concurrent deliverables and deadlines
- Able to proactively preempt issues as well as being adept in quick problem solving / providing innovative solutions
- Independently taking the lead for all deliverables within their scope of work
- Significant managerial experience across a large team of Engineers, Designers, and technical support personnel - both internal and external - directing work involving complex technical situations
- Experience across multiple disciplines
What Desired Skills You'll Bring:
- Able to thrive in a fast paced environment.
- Professional Engineer registration with active membership in a professional engineering society may be required
- Excellent written and oral communications skills - comfortable presenting technical presentations / solutions to the client
- Thorough knowledge of industry practices and regulations are required
- Must also possess a thorough knowledge of current technology and the capabilities and efficiencies of specific engineering software for use in completing engineering assignments.
- Requirements include knowledge of the capabilities and efficiencies of utilizing specific computer software to complete design assignments.
- Also requires the ability to perform in a lead capacity on a project.
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