Senior Design Manager

Staff Design Manager – EPC

📍 San Francisco, California

💰 Up to $170,000 per year

🏭 Advanced Manufacturing | Industrial Construction | EPC

We are recruiting for a Staff Design Manager to lead complex design and engineering programmes for a rapidly expanding advanced manufacturing organisation.

You will manage multidisciplinary infrastructure and tool-installation projects from early concept and feasibility through the 30%, 60%, 90% and IFC design stages. This is a fast-paced position requiring close collaboration with engineering, construction, procurement, manufacturing and facilities teams.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead industrial infrastructure and tool-installation projects from concept through construction
• Define project scope, objectives, budgets and design deliverables
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams and external A/E partners
• Manage design reviews at the 30%, 60%, 90% and IFC stages
• Oversee permitting documents, RFIs, transmittals and change management
• Align design activities with procurement and construction schedules
• Lead feasibility studies, value engineering and options analysis
• Support project funding requests for major infrastructure improvements
• Identify engineering resource gaps, design risks and schedule constraints
• Implement fast-track design, BIM and lean construction methodologies

Candidate requirements:

• Approximately 10+ years of relevant design, engineering or construction experience
• Experience within advanced manufacturing, semiconductor, battery, automotive, chemical or another heavy industrial environment
• Strong multidisciplinary design-management experience
• Knowledge of manufacturing facilities, utilities, site infrastructure and equipment installation
• Experience managing engineering consultants, contractors and internal stakeholders
• Strong understanding of codes, permitting and local jurisdictions
• Excellent project management, communication and documentation skills
• Degree in Architectural, Civil, Mechanical, Chemical or Electrical Engineering preferred

This opportunity would suit a Design Manager who enjoys taking ownership, resolving complex problems and delivering major industrial projects at speed.

To discuss the position confidentially, apply directly or contact Sam Morriss at Novax Recruitment.