Design Manager (DM) | Landscape Architecture
A. Role
Lead day-to-day management and coordination of landscape and public-realm design across early-stage concept through detailed and IFC delivery, ensuring design excellence, commercial control, and full interdisciplinary integration.
B. Design Management and Team Leadership
- Plan, manage, and deliver assigned projects within approved time, fee, and quality parameters.
- Develop commercial awareness — actively monitor fee utilisation, scope changes, and initiate change-control processes where required.
- Prepare and maintain resource and deliverable schedules in coordination with the HoD and Project Managers.
- Contribute to sub-consultant procurement, scope definition, and technical performance assessment.
- Lead, mentor, and motivate a multi-disciplinary team (Landscape, Irrigation, BIM, Visualisation, CAD, and Environmental specialists).
- Implement structured QA/QC and peer-review procedures at every design gateway.
- Coordinate early integration of civil, MEP, and infrastructure requirements.
- Ensure landscape designs incorporate sustainability, accessibility, and safety-in-design principles.
- Deliver complex landscape projects while providing technical and managerial guidance throughout design and construction support.
- Delegate tasks effectively, monitor progress, manage risks, and report proactively.
- Ensure compliance with internal QMS and ISO 9001 processes.
- Represent the Landscape discipline in client and consultant meetings, managing expectations and promoting company values.
- Contribute to proposals: scope identification, design methodology, management plans, deliverables lists, and design budgets.
- Maintain formal documentation — Minutes of Meetings, Design-Change Logs, Coordination Trackers, and Risk Registers.
C. Design & Technical Expertise
- Oversee and review preparation of all landscape deliverables, including Design Delivery Plans, Reports, Drawings, Hardscape/Softscape Packages, Irrigation & Grading Plans, Planting Strategies, Sustainability Narratives, and Material Schedules.
- Collaborate with HoD and PMs on complex technical challenges ensuring constructability and environmental performance.
- Ensure accurate production of tender and IFC documentation aligned with authority standards (RCRC, MOMRA, SBC, DM, etc.).
- Develop and track deliverables lists per contract scope.
- Maintain awareness of current codes, standards, and sustainable design best practice.
- Lead BIM integration using Revit LA / Civil 3D / Navisworks, ensuring model accuracy, coordination, and LOD compliance.
- Review sub-consultant deliverables and coordinate with Architecture, Structure, MEP, Infrastructure, and ID teams.
- Work with QS and Spec Writer to develop landscape specifications, BOQs, and cost schedules.
- Contribute to Value-Engineering, tender evaluation, and site support.
- Champion innovation in digital design, visualisation, and sustainable materials.
D. Communication and Collaboration
- Exhibit fluent written and spoken communication in English (and Arabic where applicable).
- Lead client presentations, design workshops, and coordination reviews.
- Translate complex technical data into clear visual and verbal narratives for stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients, partners, and authorities.
- Foster a collaborative, respectful culture aligned with company values.
- Maintain consistently high Client-Satisfaction Scores through proactive service.
E. Department Operations
- Report weekly to HoD/Management on schedules, deliverables, and resource allocation.
- Work closely with Project Managers for programme tracking and risk reporting.
- Coordinate within the team and across disciplines to ensure cohesive project delivery.
- Participate in QA reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions.
- Support development of internal standards, templates, and digital workflows.
- Mentor team members and contribute to the Landscape Skills Framework through structured CPD and feedback.
- Adopt full ownership and accountability for assigned projects.