Structural Design Manager

Overview

Design Development (Structural Leadership)

• Own and control the structural design development across all project stages, ensuring compliance with Employer s Requirements, contract documents, applicable codes, and standards.
• Approve and be accountable for all structural design drawings, calculations, shop drawings, and technical submissions prior to issue or construction release.
• Direct Technical Coordinators and discipline engineers to resolve structural design clashes, omissions, constructability issues, and interface risks.
• Ensure structural design is fully coordinated with architectural, MEPF, geotechnical, utilities, and temporary works requirements.
• Confirm buildability, durability, and safety of structural design solutions in alignment with construction methodologies, sequencing, and site constraints.
• Ensure appropriate design strategies and specialist inputs are applied for complex or high-risk structural systems where required.

Design Management & Programme Control

• Plan, manage, and drive the structural design programme to meet project milestones, procurement needs, and construction priorities.
• Maintain full visibility of structural design progress, constraints, dependencies, and risks, and report status and mitigation measures to the Senior Design Manager.
• Control the structural design workflow, including submission, review, approval, and construction issue of design and shop drawings.
• Direct coordination between structural design, planning, procurement, and construction teams to ensure timely procurement and uninterrupted execution of works.
• Escalate critical structural design risks, decisions, and deviations with clear technical recommendations and impact assessments.

Compliance and Quality Assurance

• Establish and enforce structural design QA/QC requirements, including discipline reviews, coordination checks, and approval protocols.
• Ensure compliance of all structural design outputs with statutory requirements, authority approvals, and contractual obligations applicable to the project works.
• Verify that approved design intent is accurately translated into shop drawings, construction documentation, and site deliverables.
• Lead responses to design review comments, audits, and authority queries, ensuring timely closure and approval.
• Maintain accountability for the accuracy, completeness, and traceability of structural design records and technical decisions.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as the single point of technical authority for all structural design matters within the project.
• Lead structural coordination meetings and issue clear technical direction to Technical Coordinators, consultants, and internal teams.
• Represent the project in client, consultant, and authority engagements on structural design matters.
• Ensure all structural design decisions and agreements are formally documented, communicated, and implemented in accordance with the approved design workflow.
• Research and Innovation
• Identify opportunities for structural optimization, value engineering, and construction efficiency improvements.
• Evaluate materials, systems, and methods that enhance constructability, safety, durability, or programme performance.
• Capture lessons learned and support continuous improvement of structural design delivery and coordination practices.

Industry / Domain

• Design & Build construction projects requiring discipline-led structural design management.
• Large-scale, multidisciplinary developments with complex construction and authority requirements.

Necessary Knowledge and Experience

• Minimum 12 15 years of experience in structural engineering design and delivery, including management roles on large Design & Build projects.
• Proven experience leading structural design teams and managing Technical Coordinators.
• Strong knowledge of structural design codes, standards, and authority approval processes relevant to the project location.
• Demonstrated experience managing design risk, constructability, and site-driven design changes.
• Strong professional proficiency in English, written and spoken.

Education

• and Certification
• Minimum Requirements Bachelor s degree in Structural or Civil Engineering.
• Master s degree is an advantage.
• Professional engineering registration or chartership is an advantage.

Job Specific and Technical Skills

• Strong capability in structural design leadership, technical governance, and approval of complex structural systems within a Design & Build environment.
• Demonstrated understanding of progressive collapse design principles and their application to robustness and risk mitigation strategies.
• Working knowledge of blast analysis and protective structural design, sufficient to review, challenge, and approve specialist analysis and recommendations.