Are you looking for a highly rewarding opportunity that provides extensive career growth opportunity? Gilbane is seeking an Design Manager - Advanced Deliveryto leadleads the integration of design and construction teams to deliver coordinated, constructible, and cost-effective designs.This role supports advanced delivery models (Design-Build, IPD, P3, EPC), ensuring design intent, risk management, and project readiness for execution.

• Serves as primary liaison between design and construction teams during proposals
• Leads strategy for design services breakdown and integration of specialty consultants or design/build trades
• Defines technical scope, manage RFIs, and ensure comprehensive bridging documents
• Develops and maintains design deliverable schedules aligned with procurement and build phases
• Reviews all scopes of services for all Designers and Consultants; design Teaming Agreements
• Collaborates with estimating to break down RFPs and support subcontractor/vendor pricing
• Assembles and maintains the Endorsed Project Baseline (proposal, estimate, contract, schedule)
• Identifies and communicatesrequirements to clarify RFPs for design and construction
• Oversees design progression to ensure alignment with budget, schedule, and constructability; lead target value design
• Facilitates design charrettes, team chartering, and owner approval processes
• Coordinates permitting process and maintain related schedules
• Monitors and documents design changes, minimizing scope creep
• Leads design risk management, including cost-benefit analyses for RFIs and changes
• Ensures Health & Safety integration: completes Safety Risk Assessments, introduces Hierarchy of Controls, and incorporates logistics planning into design
• Ensures effective coordination between the VDC (Virtual Design & Construction) team and the design team to align digital modeling, clash detection, and constructability reviews with project goals
• Maintains tools for tracking design issues and changes
• Promotes a design-build mindset and collaboration between disciplines
• Oversees and validates design team invoices
• Communicates design scope and intent to construction teams
• Supports development of construction budgets from design estimates
• Assists in trade contractor/supplier scope definition and procurement
• Provides feedback for future bids and risk assessments
• Resolves scope conflicts and develop recovery plans as needed
• Ensures design team responsiveness to field issues and facilitate risk-mitigating solutions
• Oversees design QA/QC for regulatory and standards compliance
• Improves documentation of design basis and assumptions
• Emphasizes the importance of delivering the proposed design and managing scope changes
• May support preconstruction, estimating, or procurement as needed
• Expected to contribute to organizational learning by sharing lessons learned and best practices
• Responsible for the career development and coaching of team members
• Fosters a positive and inclusive work environment to motivate and engage team members
• Interprets and translates the organizational strategy, ensuring team understanding of their role in accomplishing strategic goals

EXPERIENCE/EDUCATION

• Bachelors degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years experience in design/project management for large-scale construction.
• Proven experience with advanced delivery models (Design-Build, IPD, P3, EPC).
• Or equivalent combination of education and experience

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

• Strong understanding of design-to-budget, constructability, and risk management
• Experience establishing and executing departmental processes and procedures
• Experience with Assumptions Management, Change Management, requirement tracking, and Corrective Action Programs
• Excellent communication, leadership, and team-building skills
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and drive consensus
• Proficiency in design and construction management software/tools
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving
• Collaborative leadership and influence
• Risk identification and mitigation
• Innovation and continuous improvement
• Results-oriented and accountable

Salary to be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience of the applicant, as well as the internal equity and alignment with the team.

This ranges from $125,000 - $182,000 plus benefits and retirement program.

Gilbane offers an excellent total compensation package which includes competitive health and welfare benefits and a generous profit-sharing/401k plan. We invest in our employees education and have built Gilbane University into a top training organization in the construction industry. Qualified applicants who are offered a position must pass a pre-employment substance abuse test.