Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Infrastructure expert needed! Primoris Heavy Civil is looking for an experienced Design Manager of Alternative Delivery to support our group in Houston, TX. This role is a hands-on, managerial position reporting to the Director of Alternative Delivery. Successful applicants will have experience directing management of transportation engineering design performed by professional engineering consultants in pursuing and securing Alternative Delivery opportunities for the Company.

Job Description

The Design Manager of Alternative Delivery is a hands-on, managerial position reporting to the Director of Alternative Delivery. The individual must possess characteristics of integrity, honesty, drive, and accountability. Courtesy towards both internal and external customers is mandatory.

Duties and Responsibilities

Supporting company pursuits of Alternative Delivery (AD) projects to include:

• Assisting with the assembly of Design-Build (DB) teams, which includes review and comment on Teaming Agreements.
• Assisting with the management and writing of company responses to Notices of Intent, Requests for Qualifications, and Requests for Technical and Price Proposals.
• Thoroughly vetting the Owner’s draft or industry review versions of RFPs documents for technical requirements and ambiguities associated therewith.
• Guiding the DB Team’s Design Consultant(s) in developing efficient/innovative preliminary designs.
• Conducting DB Team design meetings.
• Participating in the price estimating process to ensure inclusion of all construction scope as determined by the proposal’s preliminary design.
• Evaluating pricing provided by the DB Team’s Design Consultant for producing preliminary designs of technical proposals and detailed designs of awarded contracts.

Upon winning the project, coordinate transitions from proposal to award, which includes:

• Reviewing contact documents for consistency with RFP documents.
• Generating the technical content of Professional Service Agreement (PSA) subcontracts to be issued to Design Consultant(s).
• Assisting with negotiating terms of each PSA with Design Consultant(s).

Managing design during both the pursuit and contract phases of design to include:

• Guiding the development of efficient and innovative design.
• With an eye on creativity and innovation, recommending alternative technical concepts that would improve the performance, function, and value of each project.
• Managing Design Consultant(s) to maintain pace in accordance with the Procurement and Project Schedules.
• Identifying and directing course corrections if/when contract design strays from preliminary design elements or bid-estimate quantities.
• Managing the Owner’s design review process for timely receipt of design review comments and for identifying and mitigating Owner preferences.
• Providing technical guidance for issue resolution between the Design Consultant(s), and the Owner.

Support DB Teams throughout each Project’s life cycle to include:

• Providing guidance in coordinating transition from contract design to construction.
• Consulting with the project team for interpreting and adhering to design-related contract requirements.
• Participating in managing the Design Consultant(s).
• When requested during construction, participate in resolving issues that are related to the interpretation and intent of project design.
• Contributing to the development of technical solutions to project design issues.

Required Qualifications

• Alternative Delivery design (e.g., Design-Build, Progressive Design-Build, Construction Management at Risk)
• Traffic Control
• Drainage design
• Structures design
• Design Quality Control and Assurance
• Environmental permitting (e.g., NEPA, USACE)
• FEMA’s CLOMR and LOMR processes
• SUE and utility accommodation
• FHWA’s IMR process

Desired Qualifications

• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication.
• Organized / detail oriented / priority focused / flexible / open-minded.
• Self-starter / self-motivated / ability to motivate others in a team environment.
• Leadership by example with proficiency in developing cooperative relationships of trust and respect with clients, industry colleagues, superiors, peers, and co-workers.
• Ability to work well in a group setting with clients, colleagues, and co-workers.
• Student of the industry / continual self-educating / maintain PE license(s).
• Computer proficient in infrastructure design software, such as MicroStation or Geopak, and in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Benefits:

• Paid Company Holidays
• Paid PTO
• Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA/HSA, Short Term/Long Term Disability, 401K with matching contribution

Company Overview
Primoris was formed in 2004 as the parent company and is traded on the NYSE under the symbol PRIM. We provide a wide range of construction, maintenance, and engineering services for power generation, oil and gas, chemical, pipeline, utilities and distribution, and civil infrastructure clients. Primoris is ranked in the top 1% of the prestigious Top 600 Specialty Contractors List by Engineering News-Record (ENR), having built projects throughout the U.S. and Canada. For additional information, please visit

Primoris Heavy Civil, supported by the bonding capacity and resources of Primoris, has expanded into an even larger role within the heavy civil, infrastructure rehabilitation and transportation industries. Heavy Civil provides highway, port, airfield, rail and marine (intermodal transportation) construction services to private commercial and industrial clients as well as governmental entities such as the Department of Transportation and the US Army Corps of Engineers. Heavy Civil is comprised of six operating units that include North Louisiana Operations, South Louisiana Operations, Texas Operations, HMA Paving Operations, Concrete Paving Operations, and the Infrastructure Rehabilitation Unit.

EEO Statement
We are an equal-opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Third-Party Agency Notice
Primoris will not accept any unsolicited resumes from any third-party recruiting agencies either domestic or international. Primoris nor its subsidiaries will be responsible for any fees from the use of any unsolicited resumes either through our ATS or via electronic mail systems from any agency representative or agency consultant unless your firm is an approved vendor partner with a current executed agreement.

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