Centurion Selection is hiring: Architectural Design Manager (Developer) in Walth

Position Summary

• The Design Manager is primarily responsible for managing the pre-development process, serves as the primary internal interface between construction and Development, and is the liaison with the external project consultants through the preconstruction phase.

Essential Functions/Responsibilities

• Work with the Development teams from project concept to completed construction documents, and ultimately, construction start.
• Assist the local Development team with zoning, entitlements, permitting, and other related tasks.
• Develop and maintain detailed pre-development schedules to outline and track progress and foster accountability on each project.
• Oversee and push the design process with internal and external consultants to secure complete project documents within the allotted timeframe.
• Work with Development during the contracting phase for the external consultants. This includes defining scopes of work, production schedules, schedule of values, scope of work coordination, etc.
• Coordinate with the in-house estimating team on the scope of work, budget control reports, cost evaluations, value engineering, GMP RFI’s, etc., at the appropriate touchpoints during the pre-development phase of each project.
• Maintain all pre-development logs and correspondence for projects in the pipeline.
• With Development, help create and maintain the project profile for each project.
• Provide guidance to each design team to communicate our design standards and pre-development processes.
• Assist the architect in establishing reoccurring design team meetings for each project. Our goal is, at a minimum, to hold every other meeting in person to push accountability.
• Ensure the architect has an agenda for project meetings and distributes meeting minutes soon after each meeting.
• Ensure that all assigned work, both internally and externally, is complete between each project meeting.

Education and/or Experience

• A bachelor’s degree in construction management, mathematics, architecture, civil engineering, or related business study is required.
• Five years of project and people management. Must have worked in the multifamily construction or development industry