Design Manager

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About Overwatch Mission Critical
Overwatch is a service-disabled Veteran-owned small business (SDVOB) certified through the National Veterans Business Development Council (NVBDC), offering construction professional services, talent acquisition, and general contractor services for the mission-critical infrastructure industry.
Our mission is the construction and management of state-of-the-art data centers with the precision and reliability this industry demands. From high-end engineers to seasoned professionals, we deploy the people you need to get your data center off the ground. At Overwatch, it's more than a job. It's a purpose.

Role Description
The Design Manager is responsible for leading multidisciplinary design execution, ensuring projects are delivered in alignment with PowerHouse standards, tenant requirements, and overall program objectives.
Reporting to the Design Director, this role is responsible for managing external consultants, coordinating across engineering disciplines, and driving design execution. The Design Manager plays a key role in balancing standardization and tenant-specific deviations, while maintaining discipline around cost, schedule, quality, and change management.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Oversee multidisciplinary design delivery, including MEP, structural, civil/site, architectural, telecom, and security systems.
• Manage A&E consultants to produce fully integrated, coordinated, and constructible design packages.
• Attend weekly design and discipline breakout meetings.
• Attend milestone page turn reviews in person.
• Provide QA/QC oversight of design submissions and ensure deliverables meet quality, scope, and schedule expectations.
• Ensure alignment between base building design, turnkey scope, and tenant-specific requirements.
• Review tenant requirements and design standards to ensure alignment with PowerHouse platform objectives.
• Evaluate and communicate the cost, schedule, and technical impacts of tenant-driven changes.
• Enforce a change management process to maintain cost and schedule certainty.
• Manage consultants to minimize unnecessary design variation and ensure controlled implementation of approved changes.
• Provide design oversight during construction to ensure execution aligns with approved design documents, project requirements, and PowerHouse standards.
• Conduct periodic site observations to verify design implementation and identify potential issues.
• Review design-related submittals, RFIs, and proposed contractor deviations for consistency with approved documents and design intent.
• Support project readiness for key commissioning milestones, including Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), Functional Systems Testing (FST), and Integrated Systems Testing (IST).
• Assist in resolving design-related issues identified during construction and commissioning activities.

Key Qualifications & Competencies

• Bachelor's degree in Architectur

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construction zone, including raised platforms, scaffolding, and confined spaces.

• Must be able to tolerate exposure to outdoor weather conditions, dust, and construction-related noise, vibrations, and odors.
• Must be able to communicate effectively with contractors, engineers, and site personnel, and maintain situational awareness in high-activity environments.
• Personal protective equipment (PPE), including hard hats, safety vests, hearing protection, and steel-toe boots, is required.
• Must have sufficient visual acuity to read drawings, specifications, and safety signage, and to observe site activity.

Work Environment

Work is performed primarily in and around active construction areas, which may include unfinished buildings, temporary field offices, staging areas, and partially completed infrastructure. These locations may contain uneven surfaces, limited accessibility, and other conditions typical of construction projects prior to final completion. Overwatch does not control and cannot modify accessibility conditions within areas, facilities, or temporary structures owned or managed by third parties.

Reasonable Accommodation
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position, provided such accommodations do not create safety hazards, impede essential mobility within active work zones, or require modification of facilities not owned or controlled by Overwatch.

Benefits
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, including health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) plan, and paid time off. Relocation assistance is available to support candidates transitioning to the location.

OVERWATCH is committed to creating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. OVERWATCH considers candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.