Design Manager

What is the opportunity?

As the Design Manager, you will lead the design management efforts for complex transportation infrastructure projects, including commuter rail and subway station designs. This is a critical leadership role where you will be responsible for overseeing the design process, managing multi-discipline design teams, coordinating with the project manager, collaborating with the client and other stakeholders, ensuring quality, and driving successful design deliverables from concept to completion.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design Leadership: Lead and manage the project design teams for large transportation infrastructure projects, with a focus on commuter rail, subway stations, multi-modal transit hubs, and related transportation systems.
• Project Oversight: Oversee the architectural and engineering design process from initial concept through detailed design, ensuring all work aligns with project requirements, regulatory standards, and project budgets.
• Collaboration: Work closely with project managers, architects, engineers, sub-consultants, operators, maintainers, and other internal and external stakeholders to define the project scope, objectives, and deliverables
• Quality Assurance: In accordance with the project quality management plan, conduct quality checks and approve all technical designs, including plans, specifications, and reports, ensuring compliance with project requirements, industry standards and safety regulations.
• Changes, Risk and Budget Management: In collaboration with the project manager, monitor and manage project design progress, changes, risks, budget, and schedule, identifying critical design issues early and recommending solutions to stay on track.
• Stakeholder Communication: Communicate effectively with the client and their technical advisors, contractors, regulatory bodies, and other stakeholders, including in presentations, ensuring alignment on project requirements and addressing any concerns promptly.
• Innovation and Sustainability: Promote innovative and sustainable design solutions that align with the latest advancements in transportation engineering, architectural, and environmental standards.
• Mentorship and Team Development: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to multi-discipline design teams, fostering team integration, open communication, technical excellence, and a collaborative high-performance work environment.
• Business Development: Assist in the preparation of proposals and technical presentations, leveraging your expertise to win new business opportunities and strengthen client relationships.

What do you need to succeed?

• Bachelor or Masters degree in civil engineering, Structural engineering, or a related field.
• 15+ years of experience in engineering design and management, with a strong focus on transportation infrastructure such as commuter rail stations, subway stations, including upgrades to existing stations and transit-oriented development.
• Proven experience in holistically managing and delivering complex, large-scale transportation projects, including inter-disciplinary design coordination, risk management, quality, schedule, and budget oversight.
• Experience with various project delivery models such as Design-Bid-Build, Design-Build, Progressive Design-Build-Finance, Design-Build-Finance-Operate, P3 Design-Build Joint Venture, LEAN Design, Phased Tendering, and Alliance.
• A proactive and innovative approach to transportation design integrating constructability and value engineering with a focus on sustainability and resilience.
• In-depth knowledge of transportation engineering principles, transit station design, rail systems, and associated civil infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of local and North American rail transportation and transit regulations, safety standards, and codes including NBC, OBC, AREMA, FTA, NFPA, and AODA.
• Strong knowledge of design software (AutoCAD, Revit, BIM, etc.) and project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Primavera, DOORS).
• Exceptional communication and leadership skills, with the ability to manage multidisciplinary teams and liaise with clients and stakeholders effectively.
• Professional Engineer (PE or P.Eng.) license or equivalent certification is highly preferred.
• Strong problem solving skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously under tight deadlines.

Why Entuitive? 

• Flexible working hours, 37.5 hour work week. 

• Minimum 3 days a week in office. Building strong relationships and collaborating internally is important to us! 

• Commitment to staff growth through mentoring and training. 

• Employer paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for employees and their dependents. 

• Generous parental leave policy. 

• RRSP matching up to 5%.  

• Participation in our discretionary profit-sharing plan. 

About Entuitive 

We are deeply committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and accessible environment where all employees and clients feel valued, respected, and supported. Entuitive will ensure that reasonable accommodations are made to persons with disabilities during the recruitment and assessment processes. 

If you are excited about this opportunity and are interested in learning more about Entuitive, please check out our About Us page. 

At Entuitive, we prioritize human-centric evaluation methods and do not utilize AI for screening or recruitment processes.