Director of Design - Building Envelope

Division: Headquarters
Project Location(s): New York, NY 10001 USA

Minimum Years Experience: 18 Travel Involved: 20-30% Job Type: Regular Job Classification: Experienced Education: Bachelors Degree Job Family: Construction Compensation: Salaried Exempt

Position Description:
Lead, train and develop Building Envelop Design Specialists and Senior Design Specialist. Provide leadership, building envelope analysis, input to perform technical reviews for exterior envelope analysis to mitigate potential design risk, identify and solve construction challenges, and generate optimization opportunities for pursuit and execution of design-build and design-bid-build systems projects related to building envelope design.

Essential Duties & Key Responsibilities:

• Manage Building Envelope Design Specialists and Senior Design Specialists regarding advanced technical reviews of complex projects to assess constructability, examine design details, perform quantity takeoffs, and recommend construction sequencing and logistics, including:
  o Project specific designs, program intent, contractual obligations, division of responsibilities, and deliverables;
  o Project documentation such as drawings, basis of design documents, specifications, reports, and shop drawings;
  o Tracking implementation into overall design;
  o Document review for compliance with local/national code requirements;
  o Potential solutions to Design/Construction team for design optimization, challenges, and constructability improvements; and
  o Guidance for project non-conformances and operations issues.
• Develop and maintain constructive and effective relationships with internal/external project team members, subcontractors, and clients to facilitate understanding and influence design and project development.
• Work in partnership with linked design disciplines to improve coordination of design concepts (e.g. geotechnical, structural, code-compliance, building envelope and façade, MEFP, vertical transportation, acoustics, and fire).
• Develop cost proposals, track for requested deliverables, and develop appropriate hours for tasks.
• Oversee organization development, staffing requirements, and overall group growth related to building envelope focus area.
• Review weekly summary of activities and workload to identify bandwidth of staff hour availability.
• Recruit top-level technical talent into Turner Engineering Group (TEG), review requirements for employment and participate in candidate reviews.
• Develop high-performing team for building envelope focus area through supervision, training, coaching, and mentoring. Ensure regular and timely feedback and completion of employee performance appraisals for all staff.
• Participate in Business Development; attend meetings with design teams, developers, and Business Units to identify our abilities for potential opportunities.
• Other activities, duties, and responsibilities as assigned.

• Qualifications:
  • Bachelor of Science from accredited and credentialed degree program in Architecture/Engineering and 18 years of industry experience as Architect/Consultant, Exterior Envelope Engineer, or equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience
  • Design experience with diverse array of projects through all phases of design and construction, with focus on all Exterior Envelope elements, required
  • Think and write in highly structured manner with creativity to develop specialized solutions and anticipating potential challenges and opportunities, required
  • Exterior Envelope products and costs knowledge and experience
  • U.S. building design codes and material specific standards experience
  • Effective and clear verbal and written communication skills
  • Peer reviews and/or due diligence studies experience
  • Management experience
  • Enjoy working in professional interdisciplinary team environment
  • Design software for design analysis, general collaboration software (e.g. Bluebeam Studio) and operation of 3D and BIM software (e.g. Navisworks, AutoCAD, Revit, Rhino, and SketchUp)
  • Demonstrate commitment to continue to develop in area of expertise and awareness of industry innovations for self and staff
  • U.S. travel, 25%
  Physical Demands:
  
  The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Performance of the required duties will require physical ability to climb permanent and temporary stairs, passenger use of construction personnel hoists, ability to climb ladders and negotiate work areas under construction. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Performing this job requires use of hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls, sit, talk and hear, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move heavy weight.
  
  Work Environment:
  
  The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works on-site at the construction work site where the employee is exposed to moving mechanical parts; high precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and risk of electrical shock. The noise in these work environments is usually moderate to very loud.
  
  Turner is an Equal Opportunity Employer
  Minorities/Females/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity
  VEVRAA Federal Contractor

Turner is an Equal Opportunity Employer -minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity.
VEVRAA Federal Contractor