Cushman & Wakefield

Project Design Manager

Cushman & Wakefield

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Maryland Heights • Alabama • Maryland • United States

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Salary

💰 $63,750 - $75,000 per year

About the role

  • Lead and mentor a team of design professionals, providing guidance, feedback, and support on design projects from initial sketch through start of construction
  • Develop and manage team project timelines, budgets, standards, varying complexity of projects, and resource allocation.
  • Support Project Designers in quality review of design deliverables.
  • Ensures that all new processes and design standards are communicated to Project Designers and implemented within documentation
  • Review and confirm all preliminary space plans and design concepts are safe, functional, aesthetically appropriate, and meet all public health, safety, and applicable code requirements
  • Review selection and specifications of furniture, fixtures, equipment, and millwork, including layout drawings and detailed product description to meet clients' requirements
  • Provide on-going training to team, related to space planning & design, program management and FF&E services
  • Develops client workplace standards; recommends new standards and looks for continued improvements to the client workplace design
  • Contribute experience to the interior environment with knowledge and skills about space planning, interior building materials and finishes; casework, furniture, furnishings, and equipment; lighting; acoustics; wayfinding; ergonomics and anthropometrics; and human environmental behavior.
  • Work independently or with minor oversight to perform assignments including conceptual design, schematic design, design development, space planning and construction documentation
  • Oversees and helps to direct all third-party relationships with architects, engineers, etc.
  • Provide extensive and rapid-fire knowledge of FF&E vendors and resources to the team

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree from a CIDA or NAAB accredited institution in Architecture or Interior Design.
  • 4+ years of professional design experience
  • 4+ years of Revit experience in a professional setting
  • Demonstrates proficiency in architectural drawings, concepts & design
  • Excellent time management, communication, collaboration, and the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines, in addition to the ability to work independently
  • Must be able to lead a team effort, and delegate work to all team members to enable them to work independently
  • Able to build strong relationships with internal and external partners to deliver effective services
Benefits
  • health, vision, and dental insurance
  • flexible spending accounts
  • health savings accounts
  • retirement savings plans
  • life and disability insurance programs
  • paid and unpaid time away from work
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
space planninginterior designarchitectural drawingsdesign conceptsdesign developmentconstruction documentationFF&E servicesproject managementbudget managementresource allocation
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationtime managementindependencedelegationrelationship buildingfeedbacksupport
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in ArchitectureBachelor’s degree in Interior DesignCIDA accreditationNAAB accreditation