PMA Consultants
Technical Design Manager – Catering/Industrial Facility
San Francisco, CA · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- Note: 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.
Responsibilities
- Manage the review and validation of conceptual plans, drawings, program requirements, space adjacencies, equipment requirements, utility demands, and operational assumptions.
- Establish and maintain the Basis of Design and a structured requirements-management process to track technical requirements, decisions, and design development.
- Develop and maintain a decision schedule aligned with design milestones to support timely resolution of outstanding technical and operational requirements.
- Develop technical requirements and performance criteria for the Progressive Design-Build procurement and support the technical evaluation of proposers.
- Manage design development, constructability reviews, design-to-budget efforts, and documented multidisciplinary design reviews.
- Coordinate integration of utilities, electrical service systems, standby power, chilled water, washdown systems, fire protection, information technology, security, and building management systems.
- Verify that equipment loads, utility requirements, maintenance access, and provisions for future expansion are incorporated into the design.
- Identify technical risks, design gaps, and integration issues and coordinate their resolution with project stakeholders and the Design-Builder.
- Support the project team through design validation and construction authorization.
Requirements
- must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times and spend extended hours in front of a computer screen.
- and ability to read and interpret text online or in printed form.
- Wherever we work, we openly share knowledge as we believe that collaboration with peers improves our work product and that pursuing subject matter expertise is a lifelong endeavor.
Nice to have
- Direct and coordinate the integration of specialized facility systems, including automated storage and retrieval systems, robotic assembly, material handling, catering equipment, and refrigeration.
- Coordinate requirements for food-safety zoning, clean and soiled separation, and gowned/ungowned personnel and material flows.
- Coordinate structural and facility requirements associated with tilt-up concrete construction, deep foundations, high-bay structures, and specialized loads.
- Coordinate technical requirements related to LEED certification, refrigerant selection, electrification, and facility resilience.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related field is preferred.
- Registered Architect (RA) or Professional Engineer (PE) required.
- LEED AP certification is preferred.
Compensation
- $150k-$213k
Company info
- We offer a combination of workplace options that include a PMA office location; work-from-home; or a client site.
- We are committed to a culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion.
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