GHD
GHD
GHD is a global multidisciplinary professional services company working across advisory, digital, engineering, architecture, environmental, and construction services. Its teams support projects in areas including water, energy, the built environment, digital transformation, and sustainability. The company applies technical expertise to challenges such as renewable energy development, decarbonization, water security, and community resilience, with an emphasis on creating sustainable outcomes for future generations. Its broad range of disciplines offers a varied context for professionals exploring careers in consulting and related project-based services.

Design Manager, Defence and Federal Infrastructure Projects

Lead multidisciplinary design delivery for secure defence and federal infrastructure projects within GHD’s Canadian engineering practice. Oversee scope, schedule, cost, quality, and coordination with federal stakeholders.

Description

  • Lead multidisciplinary design delivery for infrastructure and facilities projects, including federal defence work
  • Develop compliant, constructible solutions that meet client, operational, and construction requirements
  • Ensure engineering deliverables follow GHD standards, project procedures, and federal regulatory requirements
  • Coordinate deliverable quality control in line with GHD’s Quality Management System
  • Develop or validate technical scopes and support discipline pricing during proposals and post-award work planning
  • Create and maintain deliverable schedules with the Project Controls team
  • Manage the engineering design budget and provide relevant information to Project Controls
  • Apply the project Change Control system and escalate potential changes
  • Refine project strategies to meet design schedules and budgets, including staging and phasing needs
  • Maintain effective communication among project management, design, construction, and internal and external stakeholders
  • Validate schedule and budget information against professional-services progress
  • Coordinate the development of discipline-specific design criteria
  • Lead the preparation and implementation of design work plans and level-of-effort plans
  • Organize, chair, and document interdisciplinary design coordination meetings
  • Update the Project Manager on developments and critical issues affecting external stakeholders
  • Coordinate communication between the construction contract administrator and engineering team during construction
  • Lead multidisciplinary resolution of site issues caused by drawing or specification non-compliance

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, or equivalent qualification, from a recognized college or university
  • At least five years of design management experience with multidisciplinary architectural or engineering teams on infrastructure or facility projects in Canada
  • At least five additional years of industry experience
  • Technical proficiency and prior project design experience in at least one discipline—civil, structural, architectural, process mechanical, building mechanical, electrical, or instrumentation and control—are considered assets
  • Knowledge of scheduling software and engineering and capital cost estimating techniques is a definite asset
  • Experience using Building Information Modelling (BIM) on multidisciplinary projects
  • Experience delivering projects through alternative models such as Design-Build, P3, or Alliance is considered an asset
  • Ability to manage uncertainty and shifting or competing priorities
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong organizational abilities
  • Experience delivering projects for Defence Construction Canada (DCC) is an asset
  • Understanding of federal governance, security requirements, and alternative delivery models

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model balancing office collaboration with flexibility
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Reasonable accommodation is available to applicants with disabilities throughout recruitment and selection

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