Job Description: Who are we looking for? Main responsibilities:
- Responsible for leading multi-disciplinary project delivery for complex DB/P3 projects to produce a compliant, constructible designs in accordance with Client requirements, Operation and Maintenance requirements and Construction requirements
- Ensure the design produced follows appropriate engineering processes, including GHD and Project specific processes
- Coordinating Quality Control of all deliverable submittals in accordance with GHD's Quality Management System
- Accountable for developing or verifying the technical scope of a project and working with subject areas to provide pricing during proposal, and subsequently work planning following project award to initiate design activities
- Participate actively in the preparation and alignment to a schedule of deliverables in collaboration with the Project Controls team
- Responsible for managing the engineering design budget and providing key inputs to the Project Controls team
- Responsible for implementing and following the project's Change Control system, including proactive escalation of potential changes
- Participate to continuously review and improve the overall project strategy to meet design schedule and budget with the ability to support staging and phasing requirements.
- Ensure fluid communication between the project management team, the design team, construction team and the various internal and external partners
- Verifies that the schedule and budget data match the progress of the professional services throughout execution of the project.
- Coordinates the preparation of the design criteria by the team leads
- Lead the creation and execution of design work plan and level of effort (LOE).
- Convenes, chairs and documents interdisciplinary design coordination meetings and brings forward updates and any critical issues that impact external partners to the Project Manager.
- May serve as liaison between the construction contract administrator and engineering team during construction. Coordinates multidisciplinary problem resolution resulting from non-compliance with drawings and specifications at the site.
- Leading design compliance through verification and validation of performance specifications.
- Identifying value added design changes to positively support design-build projects across all subject areas.
- Driving positive change within DM team \& EDO on project delivery and management systems
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's (B.Sc.) degree or equivalent from a recognized college or university in Civil, Structural, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.
- Member of the PEO or OAA in Province of Ontario
- Design Management experience on LRT projects within Canada considered an asset
- Project Delivery in an alternate project delivery (P3, DB), and experience in leading design team arrangements with contractors and consultants
- 15 years of design management experience on large multi-discipline engineering teams (500 million -1 billion ) with experience in complex station design and transit facilities.
- Understanding of depots (bus and rail), stations (at grade, elevated and underground), electrification, and signaling considered an asset
- Knowledge of scheduling software and engineering and capital cost estimating techniques is a definite asset.
- Experience with Building Information Modelling (BIM) on multi-discipline projects
- The ability to deal with uncertainty, changing and multiple priorities
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with reviewing, understanding and challenging Performance Specific Out Specifications.
- Strong organizational skills
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