Senior Design Manager

Clark Construction Group, LLC•McLean, VA

5d•$85,000 - $185,000

About The Position

Senior Design Managers are integral members of design-build project teams, providing critical guidance to partnered design firms on one or more projects. They leverage internal resources, creativity, professional relationships, and established processes to manage complex workflows. The role involves delivering quality design within budget and schedule, ensuring contractual and program compliance, leading design coordination and review, collaborating across project teams, resolving design issues, and contributing to business pursuits and talent recruitment. The primary workspace is a professional office, with occasional travel to locations including active construction sites. The role requires extended hours during critical project phases or client deadlines, and responsiveness to time-sensitive business needs or emergencies outside regular working hours. A pre-employment drug fitness-for-duty screening and random quarterly screenings are required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and/or master’s degree in civil, structural, or geotechnical engineering.
At least 8 years of relevant design experience with support of excavation and deep foundation projects, temporary support of facades and utilities, and temporary bridges.
Professional engineering license in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC, or ability to obtain reciprocity within 4 months.
Strong interest in geotechnical construction.
Strong understanding of numerical modeling, BIM modeling, AutoCAD, and Revit.
Strong leadership, communication, and relationship-management skills.
Strong understanding of support-of-excavation and deep-foundation software.
Ability to work extended hours during critical project phases or client deadlines and respond to communications when business needs require it.
Ability to lift and move up to 10 pounds regularly and up to 25 pounds occasionally.
Must complete a pre-employment drug fitness-for-duty screening and participate in random quarterly drug fitness-for-duty tests.

Responsibilities

Deliver high-quality design on budget and on schedule.
Ensure design meets contractual obligations and program requirements.
Lead stakeholder decision meetings, design progress meetings, and design conferences.
Organize the design review process and lead resolution of all comments.
Lead internal collaboration with technical teams, project managers, cost managers, and purchasing agents.
Manage design issue resolution in real time.
Participate in bid submissions and develop RFP and RFQ responses, including providing strategic insights to pursuit strategy.
Recruit top industry talent and identify, hire, and retain outstanding people.
Train, manage, and influence direct reports.