Senior Project Coordinator

A. Design management

• Manage and monitor the overall design development process from concept through detailed design, tender, construction, and as-built stages.
• Establish and maintain the project design management procedures, workflows, and responsibilities.

• Monitor the design consultant's performance against the approved scope, program, deliverables, and contractual requirements.
• Review design submissions to ensure compliance with the approved project brief, employer's requirements, project objectives, and applicable standards.

• Monitor design changes and assess their impact on cost, program, quality, functionality, and constructability.
• Ensure proper management and documentation of design changes, comments, approvals, and revisions.

B. Design coordination

• Coordinate between architectural, structural, MEP, civil, landscape, infrastructure, specialist systems, and other disciplines.
• Identify and resolve interdisciplinary design conflicts and interface issues.

• Lead design coordination meetings and ensure that agreed actions are properly recorded and followed up.
• Review and monitor BIM coordination and clash detection processes where applicable.

• Ensure that design interfaces between the design consultant and contractor are clearly defined and effectively managed.

C. Supervision consultant and contractor coordination

• Act as the client/PMO's design management focal point with the design consultant.
• Coordinate with the supervision consultant regarding design-related issues arising during construction.

• Monitor contractor design submissions, shop drawings, material proposals, technical submissions, and design-related RFIs from a design management perspective.
• Monitor the availability and adequacy of approved design information required for construction activities.

• Ensure that design changes resulting from site conditions, coordination requirements are properly documented and approved.
• Coordinate the close-out of outstanding design issues and ensure that final/as-built design documentation is properly compiled.

D. Design quality and compliance

• Ensure that designs comply with the approved project brief, applicable local regulations, international standards, authority requirements, and relevant codes.
• Review design documentation for completeness, consistency, coordination, and constructability.

• Monitor design quality and identify potential risks or deficiencies at an early stage.
• Ensure that authority requirements and approvals are incorporated into the design development process.

• Support value engineering initiatives while maintaining the required functionality, quality, and architectural intent.
• Review proposed alternatives and assess their technical and functional implications.

E. Program and commercial coordination

• Monitor design activities against the master project program.
• Identify potential design-related delays and proactively develop mitigation measures.

• Coordinate with the planning team regarding design deliverables, approvals, procurement requirements, and construction priorities.
• Identify design changes that may have cost or program implications and ensure appropriate assessment and approval.

• Support the commercial team in assessing the technical implications of design changes and variations.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree: Architecture engineering.

• Minimum 10–15 years of overall professional experience, with substantial experience in design management and coordination.
• Proven experience in managing multidisciplinary design teams and consultants.

• Previous experience on large-scale educational, university, healthcare, commercial, or mixed-use projects is preferred.
• Experience working within an owner/client, PMO, project management consultant, or design management environment is highly desirable.

• Strong experience coordinating between client, design consultant, supervision consultant, and contractor.
• Demonstrated experience in managing design during both pre-construction and construction stages.

• Experience with BIM coordination and multidisciplinary design coordination is preferred.