Senior Manager: Design & Interface
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About the Role
What You'll Be Doing; Serve as the primary PMC focal point for design coordination and interface management across the program. Represent the client in high level design, coordi.
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Responsibilities
- Serve as primary PMC focal point for design coordination and interface management across the program
- Lead and manage multi discipline design process from concept to IFC
- Chair design review workshops, value engineering sessions, and constructability reviews
- Establish and manage project wide interface management framework
- Monitor design and interface activities against integrated master program and milestones
- Provide clear reports, dashboards, and presentations for the client
Requirements
- Extensive experience in design management and interface coordination on large infrastructure programs
- Ability to represent client in high level design and interface meetings
- Knowledge of multi discipline design processes (architectural, civil/structural, MEP, rail systems)
- Experience with RAMS, safety cases, and hazard logs
- Strong leadership and mentoring skills
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What You'll Be Doing
- Serve as the primary PMC focal point for design coordination and interface management across the program.
- Represent the client in high level design, coordination, and interface meetings with consultants, contractors, systems integrators, authorities, and third parties.
- Ensure that employer's requirements, technical standards, and safety obligations are clearly communicated, understood, and implemented by all delivery partners.
- Provide independent, objective advice and recommendations to the client leadership on engineering, safety, interface, and program matters.
Design Management
- Lead and manage the overall multi discipline design process (concept, preliminary, detailed, and IFC) across architectural, civil/structural, MEP, rail systems, and other disciplines.
- Review and comment on key design submissions, technical reports, drawings, models, calculations, and specifications to ensure compliance with employer's requirements, local regulations, and international standards.
- Chair and coordinate design review workshops, value engineering sessions, and constructability reviews.
- Oversee requirements management and traceability, ensuring that all technical and safety requirements are properly captured, allocated, and verified.
- Monitor and enforce adherence to the project's technical assurance and design governance processes.
Interface Management
- Establish and manage the project wide interface management framework, including processes, tools, and responsibilities.
- Identify, classify, and maintain a register of all key interfaces (civil systems, stations MEP, systems rolling stock, depots, third party utilities, etc.).
- Chair interface coordination meetings and interface control working groups, driving resolution of interface issues.
- Review and monitor interface control documents, interface matrices, and interface agreements prepared by designers and contractors.
- Escalate critical interface risks and conflicts to the client with options and recommendations.
Safety and Integration
- Oversee, from a PMC perspective, the integration of engineering and safety requirements throughout the design and build phases.
- Review and monitor RAMS documentation, safety cases, hazard logs, and risk assessments prepared by contractors and consultants.
- Ensure that design solutions incorporate safety by design, including construction safety, operational safety, and maintainability considerations.
- Coordinate with independent safety assessors (ISA), regulators, and third party reviewers.
- Verify that all required safety approvals, certifications, and authority clearances are planned, tracked, and obtained in line with project milestones.
Construction and Change Management
- Manage alignment between design deliverables and construction methodology/sequencing, ensuring early identification of constructability issues.
- Support the client in assessing and approving design changes, technical deviations, and value engineering proposals.
- Ensure consistent application of configuration management across design and construction phases.
- Coordinate closure of design related non conformances, technical queries, and RFIs.
Reporting and Stakeholder Management
- Monitor design and interface activities against the integrated master program and key milestones; identify and manage critical path items.
- Maintain and regularly update design and interface risk registers.
- Provide clear, concise reports, dashboards, and presentations for the client.
- Support project controls teams in assessing schedule and cost impacts of design/interface issues and changes.
- Coordinate with internal client stakeholders to ensure that design outcomes meet future operational and business needs.
- Interface with local authorities, utility providers, and other third parties to support approvals, NOCs, permits, and technical agreements.
Team Leadership and Quality
- Lead and mentor a team of design managers, interface engineers, and safety/assurance specialists within the PMC.
- Promote a culture of quality, safety, collaboration, and proactive risk management across all design and interface activities.
- Ensure robust QA/QC processes are applied to design deliverables and interface documentation.
- Capture, document, and disseminate lessons learned in design, interface management, and safety assurance across the program.
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