The posting
Job Summary
Lead design management for an LTA road and viaduct design-and-build project in Singapore, coordinating multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders to deliver compliant, safe, and constructible designs on schedule.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the overall design process, programme, and deliverables schedule to ensure timely project completion.
- Coordinate permanent and temporary works design across structural, geotechnical, road, drainage, utilities, and M&E disciplines to maintain integrated design solutions.
- Chair design coordination meetings and track resolution of design actions and interfaces to efficiently resolve issues.
- Manage design submissions to LTA, BCA, PUB, SCDF, SLA, NParks, and other statutory authorities, ensuring full regulatory compliance.
- Track submission status and approval timelines, incorporating authority comments and review feedback to secure necessary approvals.
- Coordinate responses to LTA comments and technical queries to facilitate smooth project progress.
- Review designs for constructability, buildability, and safety-in-design, including precast handling, launching/gantry erection tolerances, and works adjacent to live utilities to minimize risks.
- Provide technical support to site teams by managing RFIs, design changes, design deviations, and as-built requirements to maintain design integrity.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate design risks and interfaces with adjacent contracts to prevent project delays.
- Coordinate temporary works designs including excavation support systems, formwork and falsework, launching systems, lifting plans, traffic decking, and temporary access structures to ensure safety and compliance.
- Ensure temporary works designs are properly checked, approved, and implemented to meet project standards.
- Oversee BIM implementation and multidisciplinary design coordination to enhance design accuracy and collaboration.
- Ensure model and drawing consistency across disciplines, supporting clash detection and design coordination workshops to reduce errors.
- Promote digital engineering initiatives to improve project delivery efficiency and innovation.
Required competencies and certifications
- Bachelor's degree in Civil or Structural Engineering recognised by the Professional Engineers Board (PEB), Singapore, or qualifications accepted by the Commissioner of Building Control for registration as a Resident Engineer.
- Minimum 10 years of civil engineering experience, including at least 10 years in the design and coordination of vehicular structures and road projects of similar nature in Singapore.
- Proven experience managing design submissions and approval processes with LTA, BCA, and other Singapore authorities.
- Proficient in English as the working language.
Preferred competencies and qualifications
- Professional Engineer (PE) registration with PEB.
- Direct experience on Singapore LTA road and viaduct projects.
- Familiarity with Singapore-adopted structural Eurocodes and LTA design standards and criteria.
- Experience facilitating or contributing to Design for Safety (DfS) workshops.
- Experience in the design of prestressed or precast concrete bridge superstructures and their erection methods.
- Familiarity with BIM, Common Data Environment (CDE), and digital engineering platforms.
- Mandarin proficiency to support coordination with Mandarin-speaking stakeholders at the company's headquarters in China and Singapore.



