Design Manager
AECOM
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**Job Description**
AECOM Mississauga is hiring a Design Manager.
As a Design Manager in Alternative Delivery, you will lead multi-disciplinary project delivery for complex projects, such as Design-Build (DB) and Progressive Design-Build (PDB) subway stations.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
+ Provide technical leadership, applying advanced expertise to resolve critical issues and improve project outcomes.
+ Organize and manage work plans, design activities, and deliverables for medium to high-complexity projects.
+ Ensure alignment with design schedules, budgets, and staging/phasing requirements.
+ Facilitate communication among project management, design, and construction teams, as well as internal and external stakeholders.
+ Coordinate design criteria preparation, interdisciplinary reviews, and issue resolution.
+ Oversee contract documents, technical specifications, and QA/QC processes.
+ Support constructability reviews, risk management, and value engineering sessions.
+ Act as a liaison between construction administration and engineering during execution phases.
This role demands strong leadership, organizational skills, and the ability to manage complex projects effectively.
**Qualifications**
Minimum Requirements:
* Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering + 10 years of relevant experience in transportation
Preferred Qualifications:
* 12+ years of relevant experience in transportation
* Professional registration in Ontario or equivalent professional association registration and ability / willingness to transfer to Ontario in limited time
* 7+ years of design management experience on large multi-discipline engineering teams (500 mil +) with experience in complex station design and transit facilities.
* Ideally a Master Degree in a relevant discipline (civil, structural, geotechnical, etc.)
* Understanding of depots (bus and rail) and stations (at grade, elevated and underground)
* Experience with Building Information Modelling (BIM) on multi-discipline projects
The ability to deal with uncertainty, changing and multiple priorities
* Ability to work with minimal supervision
* Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills applied to design activities for contractors
* Excellent oral and written skills as well as interpersonal/teamwork skills
* Ability to work in a matrix organization
* Proven success to supervise and review the work of less experienced engineers, train interns on numerical modelling
* Ability to liaise with other disciplines, professionals, clients
**Additional Information**
Offered compensation will be based on location and individual qualifications. The expected range is $145,000.00 - $200,000.00.
**About AECOM**
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.
**Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity**
You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
**ReqID:** J10120303
**Business Line:** Transportation
**Business Group:** DCS
**Strategic Business Unit:** Canada
**Career Area:** Engineering
**Work Location Model:** Hybrid
**Legal Entity:** AECOM Canada Ltd
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