Design Manager Job at The Morgan Group, Inc in Houston

Why Morgan Group?

There’s more to Morgan Group than our 65+ multi family properties. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. At Morgan Group, it’s about the people who work for Morgan, our residents, our construction team, and adhering to our key values that make us who we are as a company. Our success comes from finding, retaining, and supporting the highest quality talent by offering full-time employees a variety of benefits including:

• Advancement opportunities
• Training
• Low-cost Medical, Dental, Vision
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Medical, Limited Purpose & Dependent Care)
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Life Insurance
• Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Company Paid Life Insurance
• Company Paid Short-Term Disability Insurance
• 401K (Traditional & Roth) with Company Match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Time Off plans including:
• Vacation
• Sick
• Floating Holiday
• Bereavement Leave
• Holiday Schedule
• Referral Bonus Program

How does Morgan Group benefit you?

The Morgan Group provides you with an excellent opportunity to learn about the multi-family industry and to grow in your career you never thought possible. Whether you are interested in Property management, maintenance, construction, or development, at Morgan, you’ll get the training and support from your team that you need to excel in your role and reach your full potential.

What You'll Do

Job Purpose

The Design Manager’s (DM) primary focus is to guide the design and processes for multifamily residential, while ensuring the proper coordination of all design disciplines in preparation for construction. The Design Manager is responsible for the Design Documents from project inception to project completion. Their involvement begins at project inception where the DM serves as the primary contact between Morgan Development and the 3rd Party design professionals. The DM orchestrates all the different internal and external partners to ensure that the project’s design meets Morgan Standards and Development’s Vision. During the construction phase, the DM is responsible for aiding the communication between all involved parties (Development, Construction and Designers) and assisting with design solutions to onsite construction challenges.

Duties and responsibilities

• Manage the overall design process for multifamily projects. Incorporating all of the design intent and programming elements as directed by the PGMgr and Development Mgr., the DM superintends the designers to stay on schedule, produce a well-coordinated set as well as retrieve, disseminate and track-to-completion all plan review comments as sourced from the AHJ, public utilities and all stakeholders without compromising the Morgan standard specifications (full specs to be listed on the plans). Any deviations from the company standards will be brought to the VP of Design Services for review and discussion.
• Serves as Design Team Leader and primary conduit for communication between development, construction and design team. This is true for all stages of design (Schematic, DD and Construction Documents).
• Actively collaborate during construction with Development and Construction to identify and implement most effective solutions for the project.
• Procure, scope out, and negotiate proposals from design professionals to submit to Developer with a recommendation for approval.
• Create and enforce a consultant deliverable schedule that supports the Project’s entitlement timeline.
• Conduct weekly meetings with consultants during preconstruction.
• Assists the Developer as Design Team Leader in managing the preparation of the Site plan approval submittal. Manages this process through the receipt of AHJ comments and all responses required to achieve Site Plan Approval.
• Submitting VE and substitution recommendations to the Developer and Program Manager.
• Fully responsible for managing the AOR to prepare the CDs suitable for bidding, permitting and construction.
• Creates Bluebeam Collaboration Document for Owner and Contractor comments and transmits to the design team. Follows up to ensure each comment is adequately addressed in subsequent progress set release.
• Monitor all RFIs and Submittals. Review and assist with all design related RFIs and Submittals. Monitor design team responses and determines if plan revisions will be required.
• With respect to CA Services provided by various design firms, the DM can be dispatched by the Construction PM to address issues having to do with designers’ responsiveness to the project team in hopes of resolving the delays after needing to escalate the issue to the VP of Design.
• Design Mgr CA duties to contain some travel. Will perform on-site observation reports at construction phases as scheduled per project.

Qualifications

• Self-motivated
• Organized
• Attention to accuracy
• Detail-oriented
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize
• Architect by education and experience, registered architect a plus but not required
• Served 5-10 years as a Project Architect/Project Manager on rental multifamily projects
• Not afraid to push and hold external and internal parties accountable
• Ability to Travel