Design Manager - Landscape Architecture

About Omrania

Role Overview

Design Management and Leadership

• Plan, manage, and deliver projects within approved time, fee, and quality parameters.
• Monitor fee utilisation, scope changes, resources, deliverables, risks, and change-control actions.
• Lead and mentor multidisciplinary Landscape, Irrigation, BIM, Visualisation, CAD, and Environmental teams.
• Implement QA/QC, peer review, internal QMS, and ISO 9001 processes.
• Coordinate civil, MEP, infrastructure, architecture, structure, and interior design integration.
• Represent the landscape discipline in client and consultant meetings.
• Contribute to proposals, including scopes, methodologies, management plans, deliverables, and budgets.
• Maintain meeting minutes, design-change logs, coordination trackers, and risk registers.

Design and Technical Expertise

• Oversee landscape reports, drawings, hardscape and softscape packages, irrigation and grading plans, planting strategies, sustainability narratives, and material schedules.
• Ensure tender and IFC documentation meets authority standards including RCRC, MOMRA, SBC, and DM requirements.
• Lead BIM integration using Revit LA, Civil 3D, and Navisworks, including model coordination and LOD compliance.
• Review sub-consultant deliverables and coordinate with Architecture, Structure, MEP, Infrastructure, and ID teams.
• Develop specifications, BOQs, cost schedules, value-engineering inputs, tender evaluations, and site-support inputs.
• Champion digital design, visualisation, sustainable materials, and current design codes and standards.

Communication and Operations

• Lead client presentations, design workshops, and coordination reviews.
• Translate complex technical information into clear visual and verbal narratives.
• Maintain relationships with clients, partners, and authorities.
• Report weekly on schedules, deliverables, resource allocation, programme tracking, and risks.
• Support internal standards, templates, digital workflows, QA reviews, knowledge sharing, and structured CPD.
• Take ownership of assigned projects and contribute to client satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from a recognised university is required.
• Professional accreditation or eligibility such as CMLI, ASLA, or equivalent is preferred.
• Minimum 15 years of total experience, including at least three years in GCC design management.
• Strong knowledge of landscape design principles, construction techniques, and regional authority codes.
• Demonstrated success managing large-scale public-realm projects.
• Proficiency in Revit LA, Civil 3D, AutoCAD, Navisworks, Microsoft Project, and BIM 360.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills.
• Ability to manage budgets, prioritise workloads, and deliver under pressure.
• Fluent written and spoken English; Arabic applies where relevant.