Design Specialist
About The Position
Gilbane is seeking a Design Specialist to support the integration of design and construction teams to deliver coordinated, constructible, and cost-effective designs on schedule and within budget by facilitating workflows that integrate the multi-disciplinary team. Gilbane is a family-owned business with 45 offices that has been shaping communities since 1870. Consistently recognized as one of the most reputable construction management firms in the country, Gilbane is committed to delivering projects safely and on-time. You will have the opportunity to build schools, labs, hospitals, corporate offices, sports arenas and more! We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, or related field
- 5+ years of Preconstruction, Operations, Design Management, Architecture/Engineering, or related experience with exposure to alternative delivery models
- Typically assigned to one project or defined design-management workstream
- Willingness to observe and learn the alternative delivery execution and mindset methodologies
- A steward of team collaboration, constantly demonstrating a “Project-first” mentality
- Can execute departmental processes/procedures with limited oversight
- Excellent communication and team-building skills
- Results-oriented and accountable
- Thorough understanding of multiple subject areas or disciplines
- Provides resource management to complex processes
- Regularly operates and communicates with project leadership
- Can prioritize work to meet changing project/deliverable needs
Nice To Haves
- DBIA, LEED, RA, PE, AIA, NCIDQ, or related credentials may be preferred based on project/client requirements
Responsibilities
- Supports scope and services alignment during the design and construction phases as applicable
- Supports one project, a defined workstream or complex alternative delivery projects based on scope, pace, and risk
- Attends all design coordination meetings, records, prepares and distributes meeting minutes
- Understands owner requirements, deliverable lists, design assumptions, and design-change documentation; supports monitoring of the implementation of these requirements in the project documents
- Supports tracking of delegated design, design-assist, and design-build scope interfaces
- Tracks design issues, decisions, owner comments, and incomplete deliverables and flags misalignment to the Design Project Manager or project leadership.
- Maintains the Risk Register, documenting safety concerns identified and managed during design
- Manages the Milestone Design Deliverable process, inclusive of collating all required documents and submitting to the Owner for review
- Manages Document Control in the design phase inclusive of maintaining a library of all Milestone Design Deliverable submissions and an up-to-date coordination set for all parties to reference during the design phase
- Manages the input and execution of Owner RFIs during the design phase.
- Ensures design team responsiveness to field issues and facilitate risk-mitigating solutions
- Coaches and mentors less experienced team members
- Supports a positive and inclusive work environment
Benefits
- competitive health and welfare benefits
- generous profit-sharing/401k plan
- Gilbane University training
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
