Assistant Manager - Design Coordinator

Title: Assistant Manager - Design Coordinator

Location: Delhi & Hyderabad

Role & Responsibilities:

• Consultant contract administration
• Certify consultant bills for payment during construction phase
• Design Coordination:
• Take handover from the HO based Design manager post DD/ tender stage
• Coordinate with all vendors for issuance of a shop drawing list
• Manage timely receipt of all design documentation, including shop drawings, samples, etc. from vendors/ contractors
• Lead shop drawing and Issued for Construction documents reviews and approval process by all stakeholders and drive inter-discipline coordination
• Lead all design coordination meetings/calls, prepare agenda & minutes, and follow-up on assigned tasks
• Lead approval of all prototypes/ samples produced by the vendors by the relevant stakeholders
• Manage all design documentation with document controller
• Assist the planner in tracking the master schedule
• Prepare design schedules with weekly/fortnightly deliverables and inter-discipline dependencies
• Track design deliverables against schedule, flag delays, and implement recovery plans
• De-bottleneck design hold-ups and help stakeholders to reach consensus
• Change Management:
• Flag changes to design/ previously received approvals during the shop drawing approval process
• Flag changes to design/ previously received approvals requested by any stakeholder
• Quality Management:
• Support the PM/ Construction managers in explaining the design intent to the vendors/ contractors
• Support the PM/ Construction manager in doing a formal Quality check at every milestone to ensure it follows the approved design intent

Required Education & Experience:

• Diploma / B. Arch with experience at site coordinating construction trades
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in design or project management with at least one end-to-end hotel or high end fit out project completion experience
• Ability to monitor and review the as-built drawing process
• Working knowledge of AutoCAD and MS Office
• Good written and verbal communication skills

Required Skills & Knowledge:

• Good interpersonal and presentation skills
• Good written and spoken English, able to convey complex feedback and briefs in a concise and clear manner
• Good planning and organizational skills, able to seamlessly schedule and coordinate various design activities
• Good understanding of all hotel / high end fit out projects and design disciplines, construction sequencing and coordination process