A. Design Management
• Manage and monitor the overall design development process from concept through detailed
design, tender, construction, and as-built stages.
• Establish and maintain the project design management procedures, workflows, and
responsibilities.
• Monitor the Design Consultant's performance against the approved scope, program,
deliverables, and contractual requirements.
• Review design submissions to ensure compliance with the approved project brief,
employer's requirements, project objectives, and applicable standards.
• Monitor design changes and assess their impact on cost, program, quality, functionality, and
constructability.
• Ensure proper management and documentation of design changes, comments, approvals,
and revisions.
B. Design Coordination
• Coordinate between architectural, structural, MEP, civil, landscape, infrastructure, specialist
systems, and other disciplines.
• Identify and resolve interdisciplinary design conflicts and interface issues.
• Lead design coordination meetings and ensure that agreed actions are properly recorded
and followed up.
• Review and monitor BIM coordination and clash detection processes where applicable.
• Ensure that design interfaces between the Design Consultant and Contractor are clearly
defined and effectively managed.
C. Supervision Consultant and Contractor Coordination
• Act as the Client/PMO's design management focal point with the Design Consultant.
• Coordinate with the Supervision Consultant regarding design-related issues arising during
construction.
• Monitor Contractor design submissions, shop drawings, material proposals, technical
submissions, and design-related RFIs from a design management perspective.
• Monitor the availability and adequacy of approved design information required for
construction activities.
• Ensure that design changes resulting from site conditions, coordination requirements are
properly documented and approved.
• Coordinate the close-out of outstanding design issues and ensure that final/as-built design
documentation is properly compiled.
D. Design Quality and Compliance
• Ensure that designs comply with the approved project brief, applicable local regulations,
international standards, authority requirements, and relevant codes.
• Review design documentation for completeness, consistency, coordination, and
constructability.
• Monitor design quality and identify potential risks or deficiencies at an early stage.
• Ensure that authority requirements and approvals are incorporated into the design
development process.
• Support value engineering initiatives while maintaining the required functionality, quality,
and architectural intent.
• Review proposed alternatives and assess their technical and functional implications.
E. Program and Commercial Coordination
• Monitor design activities against the master project program.
• Identify potential design-related delays and proactively develop mitigation measures.
• Coordinate with the planning team regarding design deliverables, approvals, procurement
requirements, and construction priorities.
• Identify design changes that may have cost or program implications and ensure appropriate
assessment and approval.
• Support the commercial team in assessing the technical implications of design changes and
variations.
Requirements
Bachelor's Degree: Architecture Engineering.
• Minimum 10–15 years of overall professional experience, with substantial experience in
design management and coordination.
• Proven experience in managing multidisciplinary design teams and consultants.
• Previous experience on large-scale educational, university, healthcare, commercial, or
mixed-use projects is preferred.
• Experience working within an Owner/Client, PMO, Project Management Consultant, or
Design Management environment is highly desirable.
• Strong experience coordinating between Client, Design Consultant, Supervision Consultant,
and Contractor.
• Demonstrated experience in managing design during both pre-construction and construction
stages.
• Experience with BIM coordination and multidisciplinary design coordination is preferred