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This position will manage the design and technical work from conceptual development through design validation, detailed design, and construction authorization.\nThe Design/Technical Manager will establish the technical framework for the project and coordinate architects, engineers, consultants, equipment vendors, and other technical disciplines to ensure that building systems, specialized equipment, operational requirements, and stakeholder needs are fully integrated throughout design and project delivery.\nNote: This opportunity is available at multiple levels. Final placement will be determined based on the selected candidate’s experience, skills, and alignment with business needs. We are committed to providing fair and equitable consideration for all applicants.\nPosition Responsibilities\nManage the review and validation of conceptual plans, drawings, program requirements, space adjacencies, equipment requirements, utility demands, and operational assumptions.\nEstablish and maintain the Basis of Design and a structured requirements-management process to track technical requirements, decisions, and design development.\nDevelop and maintain a decision schedule aligned with design milestones to support timely resolution of outstanding technical and operational requirements.\nDevelop technical requirements and performance criteria for the Progressive Design-Build procurement and support the technical evaluation of proposers.\nManage design development, constructability reviews, design-to-budget efforts, and documented multidisciplinary design reviews.\nDirect and coordinate the integration of specialized facility systems, including automated storage and retrieval systems, robotic assembly, material handling, catering equipment, and refrigeration.\nCoordinate requirements for food-safety zoning, clean and soiled separation, and gowned/ungowned personnel and material flows.\nCoordinate structural and facility requirements associated with tilt-up concrete construction, deep foundations, high-bay structures, and specialized loads.\nCoordinate integration of utilities, electrical service systems, standby power, chilled water, washdown systems, fire protection, information technology, security, and building management systems.\nCoordinate technical requirements related to LEED certification, refrigerant selection, electrification, and facility resilience.\nVerify that equipment loads, utility requirements, maintenance access, and provisions for future expansion are incorporated into the design.\nIdentify technical risks, design gaps, and integration issues and coordinate their resolution with project stakeholders and the Design-Builder.\nSupport the project team through design validation and construction authorization.\nOther duties as assigned.\nPosition Qualifications\n10+ years of design management, construction project management, or technical project management experience on industrial, food-production, logistics, cold-storage, manufacturing, or similarly systems-intensive facilities.\nBachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related field is preferred. 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