Design Interface Manager overseeing design interfaces in complex infrastructure projects at Arcadis. Leading interface management processes and technical coordination across engineering disciplines.
About the role
- Lead the development and implementation of design criteria for transportation projects. Direct program-level delivery while ensuring quality, schedule and budget alignment.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and implementation of design criteria for various roadway transportation projects, ensuring alignment with the client’s needs, industry standards, and project requirements
- Lead development and quality assurance of project Design Build Technical Provisions, including project-specific information for RFPs and RIDs, ensuring alignment with GDOT standards and project design.
- Manage and coordinate design criteria team across a program of design build projects, including interstate widenings, interchange designs, economic development initiatives, and express lanes projects.
- Develop or oversee the creation of technical reports relating to design criteria, including but not limited to Design Exceptions, Design Variances, and Concept Reports, while ensuring quality, accuracy, and consistency
- Serve as the primary contact for coordinating the external review and approval process of technical reports pertaining to design criteria
- Communicate and collaborate with the project managers, design managers, engineers, subject matter experts, contractors, and stakeholders to ensure the design criteria are met and any issues are resolved
- Monitor and report on the progress and status of the design criteria activities on projects across the design build program, identifying and mitigating any risks or challenges
- Provide technical guidance and expertise on design criteria best practices, methodologies, tools, and resources
- Stay updated on the latest trends and developments in the roadway transportation design field, and incorporate new and innovative ideas into the design criteria
- Engage with the client and all key stakeholders to develop a shared understanding of project objectives and success criteria.
- Guide clients through the decision-making process and provide alternative solutions if there are changes to project parameters.
- Ensure consistent QA/QC processes for design deliverables and ownership of final technical acceptance criteria before client submission.
- Monitor program-level cost and schedule impacts tied to design criteria, lead mitigation strategies, oversee documentation of associated risks, and report out to program managers and the client.
- Coordinate with the client’s program managers, GDOT subject matter contacts, and Arcadis project SMEs to synchronize technical provisions, approval timelines, and milestone submissions to meet procurement schedules.
- Coach and mentor professionals to support the development of the company's talent pool.
Requirements
- A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline.
- Minimum 15 years' experience working in the Georgia transportation and construction industry on relevant Georgia DOT transportation design projects
- Design, Construction, and QA/QC experience on projects.
- Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office, including Microsoft Word, Excel, Teams, and SharePoint
- Proficiency in reviewing design within Bentley software packages, including MicroStation, OpenRoads, and ProjectWise
- Thorough understanding of the relevant GDOT and AASHTO policies and standards.
- Experience with Bluebeam Revu and Trimble Unity Connect
- Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401K
- STD
- LTD
- AD&D
- Life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Reward & recognition program
- Optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement
- Nine paid holidays
- 20 days PTO that accrue per year
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