Senior Design Manager (Structures/Infrastructure)
Role Overview
Mace is delivering a major expansion programme in Dubai to develop an events and exhibitions destination.
The Senior Design Manager will lead design development for major, high-value car parking structures from existing concept design through detailed design, procurement, and construction.
The role owns multidisciplinary design coordination and ensures designs are coordinated, buildable, and aligned with programme and delivery requirements.
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Project and role
Mace is delivering a major expansion programme in Dubai to develop an events and exhibitions destination.
The Senior Design Manager will lead design development for major, high-value car parking structures from existing concept design through detailed design, procurement, and construction.
The role owns multidisciplinary design coordination and ensures designs are coordinated, buildable, and aligned with programme and delivery requirements.
Design management and coordination
- Oversee major car parking projects from concept through detailed design and construction, translating concept designs into coordinated construction- and procurement-ready information.
- Manage consultants across architecture, structural, civil, MEP, transport, fire and life safety, and specialist systems.
- Set design programmes, deliverables, responsibilities, and review gateways; resolve design clashes, technical issues, and package interfaces.
- Consider buildability, sequencing, logistics, procurement strategy, and construction methodology.
- Lead design reviews, technical workshops, constructability reviews, and value-engineering exercises.
- Manage interfaces with roads, utilities, infrastructure, public realm, and adjacent development packages.
Procurement, construction, and governance
- Contribute design input to procurement packages and tender documentation and support contractor selection.
- Review contractor and specialist subcontractor design submissions during construction.
- Work with project, planning, and commercial teams to identify design risks affecting programme, cost, or procurement.
- Manage design changes and maintain technical governance and approvals.
- Coordinate BIM and digital design processes, support authority approvals, and incorporate statutory requirements.
- Maintain design oversight through construction to completion and handover.
Experience and qualifications
- Degree in architecture or a relevant built-environment discipline.
- Professional membership or chartership with a relevant institution is advantageous.
- Significant design-management experience on major, complex projects, ideally in a PMC, consultancy, developer, or Tier 1 contractor environment.
- Experience taking projects from concept or schematic design through detailed design and construction.
- Strong understanding of structural, architectural, civil, and MEP coordination.
- Experience with large parking structures, podiums, transport facilities, major concrete structures, or similar buildings is highly advantageous.
- Good understanding of procurement, construction methodology, buildability, and contractor-led design.
- Strong BIM and design-coordination capability, including management of multiple consultants and specialist designers.
- Previous UAE or GCC project experience is preferred.
About Mace
Mace describes its work as construction expertise combined with consultancy and emphasizes safety, client focus, integrity, and opportunity for its people.
Work arrangement
- The posting is associated with an on-site role in Dubai and states that part-time, flexible, and hybrid options may be discussed if suitable.
Employment
The source lists the role as full-time.
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