Design Manager📣 إعلان

About the Role

Redfish Solutions is seeking a dedicated Design Manager to join our team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves leading the design and technical delivery process from post-award through to construction completion. The Design Manager ensures that design development, technical coordination, and approved deliverables align with project programmes, procurement strategies, construction sequencing, and handover requirements. The position requires a minimum of 10 years of experience in design management and technical delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the primary technical representative and point of contact for clients, PMC, operators, design consultants, and authorities.
• Lead technical workshops to resolve design gaps, assumptions, and unresolved interfaces, driving final design sign-off.
• Manage all post-award design development and engineering processes, including reviewing tender documentation for gaps and coordination issues.
• Ensure complete multidisciplinary coordination across architectural, interior design, MEP, structural, and specialist systems.
• Lead the technical team throughout the engineering lifecycle, overseeing shop drawings, technical submissions, material submissions, samples, mock-ups, and coordination drawings.
• Develop and manage drawing, material, and sample registers, along with technical submittal schedules and approval matrices.
• Support procurement through technical evaluation of suppliers and subcontractors, ensuring packages meet required standards.
• Provide ongoing technical support during construction, leading the resolution of RFIs and site technical issues.
• Establish and manage the project mock-up strategy, leading reviews and approvals to set benchmark standards.
• Ensure technical deliverables align with construction milestones and sectional handover requirements, supporting programme recovery initiatives.

Technical Leadership and Coordination

The Design Manager drives the resolution of design gaps, finalisation of design intent, and timely release of coordinated information to support construction. This includes overseeing the preparation, coordination, submission, review, approval, and issuance of all necessary construction documentation. The role involves ensuring all technical submissions and deliverables are aligned with planned construction sequencing and key programme milestones, while also monitoring and tracking outstanding approvals and escalating delayed matters.

Stakeholder Engagement

This position requires extensive coordination both externally and internally. External coordination involves working with the Client, PMC, Operator, Authorities, Designers, and Specialist Consultants. Internally, the Design Manager will collaborate with the Project Director, Project Manager, Construction Manager, MEP Manager, Procurement Team, Commercial Team, Planning Team, and QA/QC Team to ensure integrated project delivery.

Candidate Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Architecture, Engineering, Interior Design, or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 12–15 years of experience in Design Management or Technical Delivery.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in luxury mixed-use, commercial/corporate, hospitality, or hotel refurbishment projects.
• Mandatory proven experience working for a fit-out contractor, with direct responsibility for fit-out contracting and technical delivery. Candidates whose experience is limited to consultancy, design management, architectural practice, client-side/PMC roles, or other non-contracting environments will not be considered unless they also have demonstrable hands-on fit-out contracting experience.
• Experience in Design & Build contracts and post-award design development.

Required Skills and Expertise

• Proven experience managing client interfaces, technical approvals, shop drawings, material approvals, mock-ups, and multidisciplinary coordination.
• Strong understanding of programme-driven technical delivery, approval cycles, procurement support, and construction sequencing.
• Ability to lead technical workshops, resolve RFIs, close design gaps, and coordinate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.