Design Manager

Role overview

Compensation

• Wage range is $75,000–$95,000 per annum; pay depends on skills and experience.

Benefits

• Benefits include medical, dental, and vision care; wellness spending; employee assistance; life insurance; and employee events.
• Other offerings include recognition awards, community support, clothing discounts, paid uniforms for customer-facing employees, a boot allowance for operations employees, and referral bonuses.

Responsibilities

• Set designer targets and expectations and manage daily priorities and workflow.
• Account for team output and ensure design deadlines are met.
• Ensure designs meet codes, regulations, sales requests, customer plans, and scopes of work.
• Review architectural and structural plans, scopes of work, tender documents, and other customer-provided design requirements.
• Work with designers, design administration, sales, customers, and consultant engineers; coordinate design workflow.
• Coordinate outsourced design work and resolve design and estimating site issues promptly and professionally.
• Perform department administration and other duties requested by the Design Director.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of truss and EWP design experience; MiTek experience is preferred.
• At least 3 years managing a team of 5 or more people.
• A Civil Engineering Technologist or Architectural Technologist diploma is preferred; equivalent experience is accepted.
• Strong computer skills, including MS Office and Excel; Bistrack or equivalent ERP experience is preferred.
• Palantir Foundry experience is a strong asset.
• Ability to prioritize and multitask; interpret architectural and structural drawings, contract documents, and Building Codes.
• Strong understanding of residential and commercial construction practices and effective verbal and written communication.

Workplace and employment

• Full-time, permanent position with a hybrid-remote work arrangement in Uxbridge, Ontario.
• Reliable transportation is essential because the location is not on a bus route.