Design Manager - Multidisciplinary

Undertakes full day to day Design Management role on more complex projects or on a range of smaller but more challenging projects or running a component of a major project.

Technical Excellence

• Delivery of EC Africa Projects, understand status, budget, risks, etc.

• Understands and embrace AECOM PM’s best practices, and AECOM’s PDS and EC GEPs

• Has a solid Technical Background on Multidisciplinary Engineering Projects and can contribute to technical discussions when needed

• Undertakes the full responsibility and tasks of the design management of projects

• Able to analyse all types of projects commercially and advise the Project Delivery Teams of the commercial health of their projects and highlights concerns in advance.

• Prepares and assists in various levels of project reporting. Key contributor in the preparation of the monthly status reports.

• Reviews and approves output from project cost and schedule systems. Prepares or reviews presentations based on system output.

• Delivers effective communication, inclusive of clients and team members, to clarify expectations and requirements

• Prepare cost proposals for projects or programs.

• Prepare project reports, KPIs and ensures that Quality Procedures are followed within EC Africa, and multi-centric Projects that are managed in EC Africa.

• Collaborate and coordinate closely with the Lead Office Project Manager and design teams

• Ensures assigned design teams effectively coordinate with each other

• Responsible for ensuring that any additional work/changes in scope are approved by clients

• Ensures that quality reviews are conducted and that the appropriate Lead Verifiers are assigned to the projects

• Collaborate with the client to confirm the design approach and that it satisfies the client scope of services and expectations

• Supports other Africa EC Lead PMs/DMs in their day to day duties and project discussions.