Assistant Design Manager

Core Responsibilities:

• Assists the Design Manager in engaging consultants to produce initial construction documentation, conceptual framework, and design briefs.
• Coordinates all design disciplines, including Architecture, Structure, MEP, Landscape, Interior Design, and specialist consultants.
• Manages day-to-day technical coordination with all design consultants.
• Reviews design submissions to ensure coordination, quality, and compliance prior to management approval.
• Leads design coordination meetings and monitor the closure of actions and resolutions.
• Tracks design program milestones and proactively identify risks to schedules or approvals.
• Supports authority submission processes and coordinate responses to authority comments and requirements.
• Identifies design changes that may impact cost, scope, or program, and support value engineering initiatives.
• Maintains and update design issue logs, change registers, and progress reports.
• Issues consolidated technical comments to design consultants.
• Chair coordination meetings on behalf of the Design Manager when required.
• Escalates significant technical, program, or compliance risks to management for timely decision-making.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Architectural Engineering/Architecture or a related field
• English is essential, Arabic is an added advantage
• 15 years of post-qualification experience in multi-disciplinary design coordination, ideally with a developer (client-side)