Project Manager

Role overview

Team leadership and design process

• Lead internal project teams that may include project architects, landscape and exhibition designers, and content curators.
• Set workflows and milestones for Schematic Design, Design Development, and Construction Documents through IFT/IFC packages.
• Coordinate interior, landscape, lighting, MEP, structural, acoustic, and sustainability consultants.

Client and design coordination

• Act as the primary client and stakeholder contact and lead design presentations, workshops, and reviews.
• Translate client aspirations and functional programs into design briefs and strategies.
• Maintain design integrity from concept sketches through construction drawings.
• Oversee spatial coordination, building-envelope details, zoning, accessibility, life safety, and fire-code reviews.
• Coordinate disciplines so structural and MEP systems integrate with architectural design.

Commercial and schedule management

• Manage subcontracts with support from legal and finance departments and oversee project legal, commercial, financial, cost, and resourcing matters.
• Develop and maintain the design schedule and track deliverables against milestones for clients, authorities, and contractors.
• Monitor staffing, workload, hours, project profitability, and fee usage.

Construction-phase support

• Review submittals, shop drawings, and material samples for design-intent compliance and respond to contractor RFIs.
• Lead design adaptation and execution feasibility based on a strong execution background.
• Manage the site supervision team, contractors, and subcontractors; conduct periodic site visits to verify construction against approved designs.

Experience and qualifications

• At least 15 years of experience and experience delivering museography or exhibition design, development, and implementation projects.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Architecture, Interior Design, or a similar Engineering field from an accredited university.
• Fluent English; the source states a minimum “C21” level.
• Extensive experience with multidisciplinary teams and suppliers, and strong aesthetic, space-planning, building-systems, materials, and detailing capabilities.
• Project-management experience coordinating disciplines, clients, stakeholders, subcontractors, organization, and reporting.
• Working knowledge of local specifications and a strong execution background.

Disciplines and project scope

• The project may involve scenery, showcases, lighting, and audiovisual equipment.
• Consultant coordination may cover interior design, landscape architecture, lighting, MEP, structural, acoustic, and sustainability/LEED disciplines.