Design Manager
On-siteMiami, Florida, United States
Job Summary
Lead integrated teams through optimized, end-to-end design-build management from inception to completion, ensuring successful realization of client project vision and performance objectives. Manage interfaces with external design professionals, trade partners, and regulatory agencies while maintaining client relationships and driving collaborative workshops. Develop and execute rigorous constructability reviews to validate coordinated, buildable drawings before construction, aligning cost and schedule at key milestones. Track progress, staffing, and financial health while leveraging proprietary databases and automated workflows to refine design-construction processes.
Required Qualifications
- Professional degree in Architecture or Engineering
- 8-10 years' experience in the professional design services industry
- background in design project management
- Proven success working on multiple projects and commercial building types, across all project phases
- Experience managing teams through the duration of the project's design process, including completion of Construction Documentation (Drawing & Specification)
- Substantial hands-on experience through the full Construction Administration cycle on multiple projects
- Proficiency with Building Information Modeling platforms, including the Autodesk Suite and other industry standard 3D modeling and analysis software
- Substantial knowledge of building and zoning codes, entitlement procedures, environmental regulations, and regulatory agency requirements, including those of the Division of the State Architect
- Extensive knowledge of industry standards and resources
- Able to travel, as needed
- Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Must possess Suffolk's Core Values: Passion, Integrity, Hard Work, Professionalism, and Caring
Desired Qualifications
- Certification as licensed architect or professional engineer
- Advanced degree
- Shared enthusiasm for executing the Illuminate vision, with a demonstrated willingness to rethink traditional methodologies and to passionately seek out advancements in project delivery outcomes
- Desire to be part of something bigger than oneself and appreciate the opportunity that Suffolk and Illuminate bring to radically transform the design and construction industry
- Genuinely collaborative and open to the expert opinions of leading construction and technology industry experts, all the while able to confidently bring technical design knowledge to the discussion
- Deep awareness and sensitivity to the workings of the design and construction processes, and the ability to interpret and develop creative, technically competent, and constructible solutions to design challenges
- Demonstrates value-driven design philosophy that incorporates sound business judgement, community benefit and aesthetic excellence
- Strong management capabilities and proactive leadership qualities that allow for systematic and consistent implementation of standard processes, procedures, and systems across Illuminate and Suffolk's broader design-build delivery business
- Self-motivated and able to work as part of a team or independently, depending on the situation
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Inquisitive with a passion for excellence and continual improvement
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