OverviewAre you looking for a highly rewarding opportunity that provides extensive career growth opportunity? Gilbane is seeking a Design Specialist to support the integration of design and construction teams to deliverable coordinated, constructible, and cost-effective designs on schedule and within budget by facilitating workflows that integrate the multi-disciplinary team.
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
Qualifications
EXPERIENCE/EDUCATION
- 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
- DBIA, LEED, RA, PE, AIA, NCIDQ, or related credentials may be preferred based on project/client requirements
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES
- 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
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.
For (Newark, NJ) this ranges from $97,000-$121,000 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.
