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Design Coordinator-Projects (Vacancy Code -Design/10/2025)

Ethiopian Engineering Corporation

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Engineering

Design Engineering

Addis Ababa

4 years

3 Positions

2025-07-04

to

2025-07-12

Required Skills

civil engineering

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Fields of study

Civil Engineering

Architecture and design

Full Time

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Job Description

The Design Coordinator – Projects will be responsible for managing, coordinating, and executing design-related tasks across various projects to ensure alignment with client requirements, project goals, and company standards. The role involves working closely with cross-functional teams, including project managers, architects, consultants, and vendors, to deliver high-quality design solutions on time and within budget.

Required Number: 3

Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Conducts and manages activities to conceptualize, evaluate alternatives, and receive approvals for project implementation:

  • Defines project work scopes, coordinates with permitting and public/private utility agencies, collects and reviews project documentation, performs field data collection, analyzes alternatives, and prepares recommendations and applications. Create and maintain BIM software template files to ensure standards.

  • Collaborates with engineers, client, consultants, permit agencies, suppliers, and subcontractors during all phases of projects, and identifies and addresses immediate project needs during the construction phase, ensuring standard production and documentation of all design documents.

  • Prepares agendas, leads, and participates in project and construction meetings. Participates in regular on-site contractor meetings to discuss project schedule and milestones.

  • Provides functional and technical direction to consultants on construction projects and coordinates, organizes, and collaborates with project inspectors, project engineers, consultants, and contractors regarding project schedules, upcoming construction activities, and disputes in specifications.

  • Prepares requests for proposals for construction projects, solicits design proposals from consultants, evaluates proposals for award recommendation, participates in creating contracts for selected consultants, and ensures the executed work compliance, including tracking, maintaining,g and reporting on project accounting and schedule

  • Negotiates, facilitates, and prepares change orders for construction projects, prepares scope amendments, and solicits change orders 

  • Approval from other project stakeholders.

  • Provides quality assurance in reviewing consultant design and construction documents to ensure project needs are met, best management practices are implemented, and deliverables are provided.

  • Keeps line manager and designated others accurately informed concerning work progress, including present and potential work problems and suggestions for new or improved ways of addressing such problems. Prepares regular progress reports for capital projects with status reporting of scope, schedule, and budget.

  • Analyzes and reviews federal, state, and local laws, regulations, policies, and procedures in order to ensure compliance; conducts analysis on best practices, monitors trends, and formulates/implements recommendations

  • May design and prepare engineering construction plans under the direction of a registered Professional Engineer.

  • Manage the implementation of the full BIM potential in terms of collaboration, clash detection, and resolution of digitally constructed building elements.

  • Manage software products, including but not limited to incorporating new version releases and customization of the product.

  • Manage the distribution of coordinated digital documents to the project team. 

Job Requirements:

  • Education: BSc Degree in Architecture, Civil Engineering, or related fields

  • Experience: 4 years of work experience, out of which 1 year in a senior position

How to Apply

Interested and qualified applicants can apply using THIS LINK

Fields Of Study

Civil Engineering

Architecture and design

Skills Required

civil engineering