Senior Design Manager

Job Description

• Undertakes full day to day Design Management role on more complex projects or on a range of smaller but more challenging projects or running a component of a major project. Technical Excellence
• Delivery of EC Africa Projects, understand status, budget, risks, etc.

Here's what you'll be doing:

• Understands and embrace AECOM PM’s best practices, and AECOM’s PDS and EC GEPs
• Has a solid Technical Background on Multidisciplinary Engineering Projects and can contribute to technical discussions when needed
• Undertakes the full responsibility and tasks of the design management of projects
• Able to analyse all types of projects commercially and advise the Project Delivery Teams of the commercial health of their projects and highlights concerns in advance.
• Prepares and assists in various levels of project reporting. Key contributor in the preparation of the monthly status reports.
• Reviews and approves output from project cost and schedule systems. Prepares or reviews presentations based on system output.
• Delivers effective communication, inclusive of clients and team members, to clarify expectations and requirements
• Prepare cost proposals for projects or programs.
• Prepare project reports, KPIs and ensures that Quality Procedures are followed within EC Africa, and multi-centric Projects that are managed in EC Africa.
• Collaborate and coordinate closely with the Lead Office Project Manager and design teams
• Ensures assigned design teams effectively coordinate with each other
• Responsible for ensuring that any additional work/changes in scope are approved by clients
• Ensures that quality reviews are conducted and that the appropriate Lead Verifiers are assigned to the projects
• Collaborate with the client to confirm the design approach and that it satisfies the client scope of services and expectations
• Supports other Africa EC Lead PMs/DMs in their day to day duties and project discussions.

Qualifications

• Between 8 and 11 years of experience
• Honours degree in built environment field of study with a minimum of eight (8) years' relevant post-graduate experience
• B-Tech degree in built environment field of study with a minimum of nine (9) years’ relevant post-graduate experience
• National Higher Diploma in built environment field of study with a minimum of ten (10) years’ relevant post-graduate experience
• National Diploma in built environment field of study with a minimum of eleven (11) years’ relevant post-graduate experience
• Tertiary qualification in Project Management related field of study, such as procurement, quantity surveying, engineering, architecture, planning, contracting, etc with a minimum of nine (9) years' relevant post-graduate experience

Required:

• Registration as PrEng with ECSA, OR
• Registration as PrArch with SACAP, OR
• Registration as PrCPM with SACPCMP (PrCPM), OR
• Certification as PMP / PgMP / PfMP / PMI-SP / PMI-ACP with PMI