Senior Design Manager

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Job Description:

Parsons is seeking a highly experienced Senior Design Manager to manage multidisciplinary design coordination for a major ultra-luxury hospitality project.

In this role, you will coordinate design activities across architecture, interiors, landscape, engineering, specialist consultants, hotel operators, contractors, and vendors. You will ensure that design information is complete, coordinated, compliant, and issued in accordance with the approved project program.

What You’ll Be Doing

- Manage day-to-day multidisciplinary design coordination.
- Lead design coordination meetings and maintain action, decision, and interface registers.
- Review consultant deliverables for coordination, quality, completeness, and compliance.
- Coordinate architectural, interior, landscape, structural, MEP, ICT/ELV, FF&E, OS&E, and specialist design packages.
- Identify design gaps, clashes, discrepancies, risks, and unresolved interfaces.
- Coordinate inputs from the client, hotel operator, brand representatives, authorities, and specialist vendors.
- Monitor design deliverables and ensure timely submissions.
- Lead design reviews, workshops, sample reviews, room mock-ups, and technical coordination sessions.
- Manage technical queries, RFIs, design changes, and clarification processes.
- Support constructability reviews, value engineering, and design optimization.
- Coordinate with BIM, document control, project controls, and procurement teams.
- Prepare design status, risk, and issue reports.
- Support tender, procurement, construction, and handover-stage design requirements.

What Required Skills You’ll Bring

- Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, Interior Design, or a related field.
- Minimum of 12+ years of experience in design management or multidisciplinary project delivery.
- Experience with luxury hospitality, resorts, branded residences, or major mixed-use developments.
- Strong knowledge of design coordination, technical documentation, construction interfaces, and approvals.
- Experience managing international consultants and multiple project stakeholders.
- Ability to review drawings, specifications, technical reports, and design submissions.
- Excellent communication, organization, coordination, and problem-solving skills.

What Desired Skills You’ll Bring

- Experience with ultra-luxury hotels, destination resorts, private clubs, or branded residences.
- Knowledge of hotel operator standards and operational requirements.
- Experience with BIM-enabled design coordination.
- Professional certification in design management, architecture, engineering, or project management.
- Experience with Aconex, Autodesk Construction Cloud, ProjectWise, or similar platforms.

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Confidential

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