Design Manager Transportation

Mott MacDonald•Westwood, MA

6d•$149,000 - $182,000•Hybrid

About The Position

At Mott MacDonald, we are driven by purpose and powered by brilliant people. As a trusted engineering, management, and development consultancy, we work with clients to solve complex challenges and deliver sustainable outcomes that make a meaningful difference for the communities we serve. When you join us as an experienced professional, you will bring your expertise to work that matters while continuing to grow your career. You will collaborate with talented colleagues across disciplines and geographies, contribute your perspective, and help shape better outcomes through technical excellence, innovation, and integrity. Build on your experience while helping shape what comes next. At Mott MacDonald, you'll work alongside talented people on complex and rewarding projects that make a real difference. We value fresh perspectives, encourage collaboration, and provide opportunities to expand your skills, take on new challenges, and grow your career. Whether you're deepening your technical expertise, broadening your leadership experience, or exploring new opportunities across our business, you'll be supported by a team that is committed to helping you succeed. Our Boston Office is seeking a Senior Design Manager to join our growing and dynamic team. In this position, you will be a key leader and member of project delivery teams working in partnership with project managers to deliver designs of both large, complex and small projects and/or programs located throughout the Northeast. You will be responsible for the technical integrity, coordination and delivery of multidisciplinary design solutions.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering; advanced degree preferred.
Massachusetts Professional Engineer licensure (PE) required or ability to obtain licensure through comity.
10+ years of relevant experience, including experience leading or coordinating multidisciplinary design teams on infrastructure, transportation, or other complex projects.
Demonstrated experience managing design scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, technical coordination and design assurance activities.
Strong understanding of project delivery processes, contractual requirements, stakeholder management, and multidisciplinary design coordination.
Experience mentoring and developing more junior staff and contributing to a collaborative project team environment.
Excellent leadership, communication, and organizational skills with the ability to influence project outcomes, resolve complex issues, and drive technical excellence.

Responsibilities

Prepares the design fee estimate and preliminary design schedule during the proposal phase.
Acts as the single accountable design authority, ensuring multidisciplinary solutions are technically coherent, suitable, contract-compliant, aligned with project objectives, and supported by required design certifications.
Provides the design team with all contract materials, including scope, requirements and technical obligations necessary to deliver the project within budget and schedule.
Establishes and manages interdisciplinary interfaces and coordination matrices, defining clear accountability for design interfaces across disciplines, subconsultants and specialist contributors.
Supports the Project Manager in developing effective Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS) and Organizational Breakdown Structures (OBS) aligned with project delivery requirements and technical assurance activities.
Monitors the design budget and identifies emerging variances and corrective actions.
Enforces quality assurance processes, including discipline peer reviews, design checks, approvals and maintenance of associated records.
Supports Discipline Leads and Package Managers with resource planning, deployment and succession planning activities.
Leads multidisciplinary coordination meetings, Design Review Meetings and Interdisciplinary Design Reviews (IDRs), driving resolution of technical issues and coordination actions.
Manages design standards, technical requirements and approved variances, ensuring requirements are communicated, maintained and properly authorized.
Maintains effective communication with project stakeholders to meet contractual, technical and delivery obligations.
Coordinates the completion, review and issue of technical deliverables across all disciplines.
Supports the identification and management of design-related changes, including preparation of associated cost and schedule impacts.
Identifies, assesses and manages design risks and issues, implementing mitigation and resolution plans as required.