Design Manager - Infrastructure
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About the Role
Mace is seeking a Design Manager for a major mixed-use development program in Saudi Arabia. The role involves managing multi-disciplinary design activities, coordinating consultants and stakeholders, and ensuring compliance with standards and budgets.
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Responsibilities
- Manage and coordinate multi disciplinary design activities across project stages, ensuring compliance with approved briefs, standards, budgets, schedules, and delivery requirements.
- Support senior leadership in overseeing design delivery, monitoring progress, maintaining governance processes, and providing regular design status reports.
- Coordinate consultants, technical teams, contractors, and stakeholders to deliver integrated, compliant, and high quality design solutions.
- Review and assess design submissions, consultant deliverables, contractor submittals, and technical documentation to ensure completeness, quality, coordination, and specification compliance.
- Lead the resolution of design clashes, technical queries, constructability challenges, interface issues, and design changes while managing associated risks and mitigation measures.
- Maintain design management systems, including trackers, action logs, approval workflows, technical records, and reporting tools.
- Facilitate effective communication, collaboration, and information distribution among internal teams, consultants, clients, and stakeholders.
- Promote safety, sustainability, and compliance by applying industry standards, safety in design principles, regulations, and organizational values while mentoring junior staff.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline
- 7–10 years’ experience in design coordination or design management roles
- Experience working with multi disciplinary design consultants
- Good understanding of design development stages and coordination requirements
- Strong organizational, communication, and stakeholder coordination skills
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Project Overview
- This is an opportunity to work on one of the largest programmes in Saudi Arabia, a major mixed use development including sports facilities, entertainment, and arts along with all associated infrastructure.
- Mace is one of the delivery partners requiring high calibre and experienced professionals to lead integrated teams throughout each phase of the project.
You’ll Be Responsible For
- Manage and coordinate multi disciplinary design activities across project stages, ensuring compliance with approved briefs, standards, budgets, schedules, and delivery requirements.
- Support senior leadership in overseeing design delivery, monitoring progress, maintaining governance processes, and providing regular design status reports to project stakeholders.
- Coordinate consultants, technical teams, contractors, and stakeholders to deliver integrated, compliant, and high quality design solutions aligned with project objectives and standards.
- Review and assess design submissions, consultant deliverables, contractor submittals, and technical documentation to ensure completeness, quality, coordination, and specification compliance.
- Lead the resolution of design clashes, technical queries, constructability challenges, interface issues, and design changes while managing associated risks and mitigation measures.
- Maintain design management systems, including trackers, action logs, approval workflows, technical records, and reporting tools to support effective project control and decision making.
- Facilitate effective communication, collaboration, and information distribution among internal teams, consultants, clients, and stakeholders to support timely reviews, approvals, and project delivery.
- Promote safety, sustainability, and compliance by applying industry standards, safety in design principles, regulations, and organizational values while mentoring junior staff and supporting continuous improvement initiatives.
You’ll Need To Have
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or related discipline.
- 7–10 years’ experience in design coordination or design management roles.
- Experience working with multi di design consultants.
- Good understanding of design development stages and coordination requirements.
- Strong organizational, communication, and stakeholder coordination skills.
Our Values
- Safety first Going home safe and well: We champion a safe, diverse and inclusive working environment, understanding the importance of wellbeing in every team.
- Client focus Deliver on our promise: We own the quality of deliverables, strategic outcomes and build long term relationships with our clients.
- Integrity Always do the right thing: We influence positive outcomes within our industry, while always aligning with our compliance obligations.
- Create opportunity For our people to excel: We champion a continuous improvement culture throughout all activities, inspiring our people and teams to develop.
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