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About the Role

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Design Manager to join our San Francisco team. This role involves partnering with our client to manage insurer design compliance across a portfolio of new data center developments, covering both pre-lease and construction phases.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of coordination between the client design team, the insurer, and the developer on all matters of insurer design compliance.
• Maintain a compliance tracking matrix for each project recording open items, required evidence, responsible party, status and schedule impact.
• Review developer design submissions and insurer plan review letters, and identify non-compliances and outstanding evidence requirements.
• Manage open review items through to closure with the developer, general contractor and subcontractors.
• Organize and lead project-specific working sessions where open items require resolution with the relevant design and trade parties.
• Attend recurring coordination meetings with the insurer and represent the status of open items across the portfolio.
• Prepare weekly status reporting identifying blocking items, progress, required actions and impact to project milestones.
• Assess prospective sites during pre-lease due diligence and identify design conditions that cannot be remedied following lease execution.
• Support the transaction team in incorporating insurer requirements into lease documentation and performance specifications.
• Communicate insurer requirements to developers and design teams and advise on acceptable means of compliance.
• Prepare and support requests for deviation or exemption, including supporting evidence and assessment of impact.
• Monitor insurer review turnaround and escalate delays affecting the project schedule.
• Develop and maintain checklists, standard requirement packages and template documentation to support consistent application across projects.
• Effectively communicate design standards to internal and external project partners.
• Manage multiple fast paced projects simultaneously.
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in design management, design coordination or technical project management in the construction industry.
• Data center or mission critical experience preferred. Other complex or heavily regulated building types considered.
• Working knowledge of architectural, structural and fire protection design, with sufficient familiarity with electrical and mechanical systems to coordinate across disciplines.
• Familiarity with US building and fire codes.
• Experience with insurer-led or third party design approval processes preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to track and close technical items across multiple concurrent projects.
• Ability to read and interpret drawings, specifications and technical submittals.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to summarize technical status for senior stakeholders.
• Proficient in MS Office Suite and Google Workspace.

Skills

• Design Management
• Design Coordination
• Architectural Design
• Structural Design
• Fire Protection Design
• Electrical Systems
• Mechanical Systems
• US Building Codes
• US Fire Codes
• Insurer-led Design Approval Processes
• Third Party Design Approval Processes
• MS Office Suite
• Google Workspace

Location

• San Francisco, US

Work Type

• Remote may be an option for qualified candidates
• Occasional travel to project sites as required

Experience Level

• Minimum of 8 years of experience

Salary/Compensations

• $160,000 - $180,000

Benefits

• Bonuses
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance

About the Company

• Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
• Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives.
• Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
• Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
• We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest.
• Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
• Our inspired people share our vision and mission.
• We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
• We want our people to succeed both in work and life.

Equal Opportunity

• Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer.
• We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.