Senior Design Manager - Infrastructure and Land Development

Your role

Design Leadership

• Lead and oversee the design delivery of major infrastructure, land development, utilities, and urban development projects.
• Establish and implement project design management plans and delivery strategies.
• Direct multidisciplinary design teams to ensure coordinated and integrated project solutions.
• Drive technical excellence and consistency of design outputs across all project stages.
• Ensure design solutions meet client requirements, project objectives, authority regulations, and industry best practices.
• Lead technical reviews and design assurance activities throughout project delivery.
• Resolve complex design issues and facilitate timely technical decision-making.
• Promote innovative and sustainable design approaches that enhance project value.

Strategic Infrastructure Advisory

• Contribute to the development of city-wide and regional infrastructure strategies aligned with growth, economic development, sustainability, and resilience objectives.
• Advise clients on infrastructure prioritization frameworks and phasing strategies.
• Develop strategic infrastructure plans covering transportation, wet utilities, dry utilities, district energy, digital infrastructure, and integrated urban systems.
• Provide strategic advice to government entities, developers, municipalities, and infrastructure authorities.
• Support clients in establishing governance structures, operating models, policies, and performance management frameworks for infrastructure delivery.

Project Delivery and Coordination

• Manage the design process from project inception through planning, concept, preliminary design, detailed design, tender support, and construction stages.
• Coordinate interfaces between infrastructure disciplines including transportation, highways, structures, wet utilities, dry utilities, landscape, environmental, and digital engineering teams.
• Develop and maintain integrated design schedules and resource plans.
• Monitor design progress against project milestones and implement recovery measures where required.
• Ensure project deliverables are produced on time, within budget, and to required quality standards.
• Support project managers in managing project risks, opportunities, and stakeholder expectations.
• Lead internal and external design coordination workshops.

Client and Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary design interface for clients and key stakeholders.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships through proactive engagement and technical leadership. Provide strategic technical advice to clients during project planning and delivery.
• Present design solutions and recommendations to senior client representatives and regulatory authorities.
• Lead coordination with government agencies, utility providers, and approval authorities.
• Ensure stakeholder requirements are effectively incorporated into project solutions.

Design Governance and Quality

• Establish and maintain effective design governance procedures across projects.
• Ensure compliance with company quality management systems and design assurance processes.
• Lead independent technical reviews, value engineering exercises, and design verification activities.
• Monitor compliance with relevant local, regional, and international standards.
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives and lessons-learned programs.
• Support implementation of digital design and BIM best practices.

Commercial and Risk Management

• Support preparation of design budgets, work plans, and resource forecasts.
• Monitor design performance against commercial objectives and agreed budgets.
• Identify and manage technical, commercial, and delivery risks.
• Contribute to contract management and change control processes.
• Support project managers in maintaining project profitability and effective resource utilization.
• Participate in project performance reviews and reporting.

Business Development

• Support the growth of the Infrastructure and Land Development business through technical excellence and client engagement.
• Lead technical inputs for proposals, bids, and project pursuits.
• Develop innovative solutions and methodologies that strengthen competitive positioning.
• Participate in client presentations, interviews, and industry forums.
• Identify opportunities for repeat business and cross-selling of services.
• Promote the broader company service offering across the infrastructure lifecycle.

Team Leadership and Talent Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop multidisciplinary design teams.
• Foster a collaborative, innovative, and high-performance culture.
• Support recruitment, succession planning, and staff development initiatives.
• Coach project engineers and design managers in technical and project delivery skills.
• Encourage knowledge sharing and continuous professional development.
• Champion diversity, inclusion, and employee wellbeing initiatives.

Digital Delivery and Innovation

• Promote adoption of BIM, Digital Engineering, GIS, Common Data Environments (CDE), and emerging technologies.
• Ensure digital delivery requirements are incorporated into project execution plans.
• Drive innovation in design processes, automation, data management, and project delivery.
• Support implementation of company digital transformation initiatives.
• Collaborate with Digital and Information Management teams to improve design efficiency and quality.

Health, Safety and Sustainability

• Champion a strong health, safety, and wellbeing culture across all projects.
• Ensure design solutions comply with health and safety requirements and principles of safe-by-design.
• Promote sustainability, resilience, climate adaptation, and environmental responsibility in project delivery.
• Support achievement of project sustainability objectives and client ESG goals.