JOB DESCRIPTION:

Title: Design, Lead / Sr Lead
Location: Gurgaon/Mumbai (Office Based)
Reports to: Director Development

Role & Responsibilities:

Consultant appointments & contract administration:
- Prequalify local and international consultants for all design disciplines
- Prepare Requests for Proposal and administer tenders
- Clarify and evaluate proposals received and prepare tender report with adjudication recommendation.
- Assist PM and Client to negotiate commercial terms and prepare LOA and contract documents.
- Certify consultant bills for payment.
- Manage contractual claims and change orders.

Design leadership & scheduling:
- Implement documentation management and communication protocols
- Manage all design documentation with document controller
- Assist the planner in preparing the pre-construction master schedule.
- Prepare design briefs with inputs from client, operator, PM, and QS team
- Lead all design meetings/calls, prepare agenda & minutes, and follow-up on assigned tasks




- Prepare design schedules with weekly/fortnightly deliverables and inter-discipline dependencies
- Track design deliverables against schedule, flag delays, and implement recovery plans
- Lead design reviews and approval process by all stakeholders and drive inter-discipline coordination.
- De-bottleneck design hold-ups and help stakeholders to reach consensus.
- Ensure the operator brand standards are incorporated in the design and leverage the operator operational expertise to improve the design functionality.
- Post tender documentation, hand over design role and responsibilities to site design coordinator

Budgeting, value engineering, cost management:
- Assist the QS team to prepare the project budget and subsequent updates. Review the budget and ensure it is consistent with the designs.
- Throughout the design, ensure designers adhere to the budget brief and identify any deviation.
- Identify areas for potential value engineering to improve designs and/or reduce cost in c

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