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Design Manager

Currie & BrownAbu Dhabi, UAE1 months agoMid-Senior
Mid-Seniorfulltime

Skills

LeadershipStrategic PlanningBudgeting

About This Role

Overview

  • Currie & Brown are looking for a Design Manager to join our team in Abu Dhabi.
  • You'll be working closely with a key client on a range of exciting projects, which can vary from , mixed-use and infrastructure.
  • What will you be doing?
  • Assist develop scope of services for all required design consultants
  • Manage the procurement of design consultants
  • Develop and implement the design management plan
  • Manage the design process
  • Develop a design responsibility matrix to clarify roles and responsibilities of the respective design consultants
  • Oversee design consultants activities
  • Review design consultant deliverables to ensure compliance with the project brief and client requirements
  • Monitor and manage the design schedule(s)
  • Assist develop the project quality plan
  • Manage all design consultants in accordance with the project BIM requirements
  • Oversee the implementation of the sustainability program / requirements
  • Assist develop the statutory approval flow chart for all design stages
  • Oversee preparation of all technical documentation required for construction tender packages
  • What do you need?
  • **10+ years’ design management experience on a variety of large scale projects**
  • **Previous experience of working in a similar role in the Middle East**
  • **Bachelors or Masters degree in Architecture, Engineering, Urban Planning or related fields**
  • **Master's degree in Architecture/Urban Planning is highly desirable**
  • **Previous Architecture / Urban Planning experience of working on residential, infrastructure and mixed-use developments in the UAE**
  • Our corporate values
  • At Currie & Brown, we know that when it comes to a good idea, it doesn't matter where it comes from.
  • That's why we take a collaborative, open-door approach to running our business.
  • Our people, from apprentices to senior management, make our company what it is.
  • Everyone in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced, contributes to our success in their own way, and we have fun doing it.
  • Unlike other companies, we focus on the long term and deliver on our commitments.
  • We take a compassionate and inclusive approach to our work and always invest in the future of our people.
  • Whether it's the desire to work internationally, the urge to develop, or even the curiosity to work in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage, offering guidance, support and the structure to achieve.
  • That's why so many of us have been building successful careers here for so long.
  • With the backing of our parent company, we are an independent company.
  • Our people are able to make quick and flexible decisions, and work directly with some of the world's best partner brands in our industry through Dar Group.
  • This mix of our scale and size, our partnerships and our people makes us a true industry leader around the world.

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