Manage the design for the assigned project so as to meet design objectives and ensure appropriate documentation and project objectives are achieved.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for meeting design objectives, specifically:
  • To ensure timely completion of design of project elements to meet project delivery,
  • To ensure that design meets the brief and approval from Client and user groups,
  • To ensure product of design is appropriate to meet agreed standards,
  • To ensure that design meets authority requirements,
  • To ensure that the design is managed within an agreed construction cost plan budget,
  • To ensure review of the design documentation to ensure that design is capable of being constructed, effectively and practically with available construction methods, materials and resources, and
  • To ensure the design is capable of being constructed safely, that the resultant works will be safe to users and occupants and in maintenance operations;

• Responsible for effective management of design consultants, including
  • Engaged under appropriate scope of work
  • Managed effectively to enable design to progress to meet program, and
  • Enable consultants to effectively perform their work and to do so in a profitable manner;

• Responsible to direct and lead project staff
  • In adherence with project and company policies,
  • Ensure requirements under employment contracts are met, and
  • Encourage and assist with professional development of staff;

• Responsible for cost management of design and project budgets;
• Design management for the delivery of the designated Project,
• Comply will all relevant requirements of the Design Management Plan,
• Ensure suitably experienced and competent consultants are engaged to fulfill the requirements for delivery of design services,
• Evaluating the fee and design proposals of design consultants to ensure engagement under appropriate terms, scope and obligations to quality, safety, timeframes and coordination with others; offer alternative proposals and comments to the senior management as and when necessary,
• Review and approve Plans prepared by consultants,
• Act as team leader to ensure consultants receive direction to enable design progress towards the target completion date of the project,
• Manage and co-ordinate design consultant’s activities and monitor progress against the Design Program,
• Obtain brief from the relevant operations group so that consolidated requirements are established,
• Further develop design brief with design consultants through continued liaison with the operations group during design development to establish mutually agreed project requirements and brief,
• Prepare and maintain management processes to ensure project brief and requirements are met by consultant design,
• Provide budget values to consultants for works under scope of respective services engagements,
• Ensure the design is verified by consultants as compliant with the cost plan during design development and documentation;
• Organize and chair value engineering workshops in conjunction with Client, Designers and Contractors user groups and consultants to provide material and building design to accepted levels of quality and cost,
• Establish change management processes for design to ensure MPEL approvals, acceptance from user groups and clear and timely direction to design consultants,
• Co-ordinate all overseas and local consultants to ensure that the building complies with Macau codes and regulations,
• Liaise with the L&O Statutory Authorities Manager for applications and approvals,
• Liaise with Local Architect and make sure that the building plans are submitted to Macau Authorities and approved in time to meet the construction program,
• Monitor and obtain verification from consultants that documented design complies with all relevant items of the Client Brief, Project Budget and statutory requirements, in the form of reports and certificates;
• Co-ordinate with other project design managers to ensure proper interface works between Hyatt Hotel, other hotels, apartment hotel and podium levels.
• Provide technical and design support to the project team when requested,
• Initiate and participate in design reviews to ensure adequacy of design,
• Review project risk associated with project for all implications of and arising from design activity and progress, Manage and co-ordinate all design consultant’s activities and monitor progress against the Design Program.
• Ensure that tender and construction documentation produced by design consultants is in a form and structure suitable for local construction market, has the required content and detail and has an adequate level of inter-disciplinary coordination,
• To request assistance from the Construction Support and Design input personnel as required to advance design, build ability, and project standardization,
• To liaise with consultants to issue additional drawings to contractor whenever required,
• To certify value of work done by all consultants,
• To approve consultant invoices as representing that the quality of consultant output meets requirements.
• To monthly forecast the final cost to complete the design of Studio City;
• To assist assessment of variation order to design services engagements and provide technical input as required,
• Raise and issue Design Non Conformance Reports as necessary.
• Ensure that periodic site inspection is performed by design consultants to make sure that the works are built in quality and generally compliance of design intent,
• Ensure consultants verify to check that contractor workmanship of the contractor and materials used are compliant with contracted obligations and that non-conformances and report defects regularly to the Client are rectified,
• Ensure consultants validate design as required by inspecting the works during construction and issuing relevant reports to assist assessment of variation order.
• Expedite and tract track shop drawing approvals and obtain their approval as required from the consultants.
• Expedite and track RFI responses as required from the consultants and advise/direct the design consultants regarding the status of RFI’s and ensure issue of responses to contractors,
• Assist construction teams with coordination between work packages and project;
• Assist construction teams, when requested, with supervising and monitoring of contractors to complete projects within time and budgetary limits and to a high standard of quality

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS:

• Management of Time
• Cost Control
• Quality coordination
• Maintain Client Satisfaction
• Team Relationships
• Change orders – management of implementation
• Design incorporates health and safety

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Degree in Architecture / Interior Design and Engineering with over 15 years’ experience.