Design Manager

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:
Not Applicable/None
Job Description:
Ready to lead a team that tackles infrastructure challenges? Want to take your
Engineering expertise to the next level to work on tough projects that will
make a huge impact on the community?
POSITION OVERVIEW
The Design Manager is to manage the Design Section for Parsons to ensure
financial, sales, technical, and personnel growth and development, while
maintaining continuous improvement in quality and client service, consistent
with Parsons Mission and good business practice. To accomplish the above by
maintaining and enhancing the quality of our workforce by providing our
employees challenging and interesting work, opportunity for professional
development, a good work environment, and fair personnel policies.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Financial Performance - To meet financial targets, and assist
positioning the Middle East Operations for long term growth.
* Assist the Middle East Region Manager in meeting the financial targets. Assist all design engineers to meet project budgets and assist in project budget control.
* Responsible for developing and implementing operating plans, and preparing departmental budgets, forecasts and other financial reports.
* Responsible for the quality and timeliness of cost estimates, budgets, financial reports and schedules.
Project Execution - Ensure technical reviews and compliance of design
engineering with controls to maintain and improve high quality deliverables to
our clients.
* Ensure that project plans are in place for all jobs within two weeks of project authorization. This is to result in better-planned projects and improved project team understanding of milestones, budget, and deliverables.
* Target meeting or exceeding client expectation. Where non-compliance exists, ensure corrective action implementation occurs within three months of the reported non-compliance.
* Provide direct input to proposals, strategic plans, client presentations and contract negotiations. Makes presentations to management and clients.
Office Planning - To prepare and implement regional growth plans.
* Expand design capabilities to accommodate increased growth in design and support of other Parsons entities.
* Participate in developing company policy.
* Participate in interdepartmental workload and staffing plans.
* Responsible for the results of department procedures used for monitoring and controlling cost and schedule.
Personnel Recruitment and Development of Staff - Focus on key personnel
acquisitions, training and development, which strengthens our capability and
make us more competitive in current and future markets.
* Conduct informal quarterly and formal annual performance reviews with each manager. Assist in implementing a merit plan that retains qualified staff and rewards achievers.
* Maintain staff to have sufficient technical and administrative depth to support the Middle East region.
EDUCATION
The Design Manager shall be a degreed Engineer, with extensive design and
construction experience.
Minimum of ‎8 years experience
Should have outstanding client relationship building skills and shall possess
excellent written and oral communication skills