Job description for Chief Designer & Engineer Manager at Rentaved
We're looking for:
A Chief Designer & Engineer Manager is a senior technical role that owns the design integrity of the project. The role brings every discipline — structure, architecture and MEP — into one coordinated, calculated and buildable set, and issues it for tender and for site execution. It is the single point of ownership for project design documentation.
Primary deliverable: one coordinated, complete, correct and construction-ready design set across all disciplines, issued for tender or for execution. This is the single result the role is accountable for.
Immediate priority: bring the project's current design documentation into one coordinated, verified and construction-ready set — closing open technical questions and aligning all disciplines — before it is released for execution.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design Management: Brief and task design contractors, control the timeline and completeness of each discipline's output, and accept deliverables.
- Design & Discipline Coordination: Coordinate the full design scope — structure, architecture, interiors, façade, landscape and MEP — into one buildable set; ensure MEP is spatially accommodated within the architecture (shafts, plant rooms, clearances); run clash detection and resolve cross-discipline conflicts before they reach site.
- MEP Design Ownership: Own the MEP design brief on the client's behalf — define the technical scope and design or independently review the MEP, so that scope is driven by project requirements rather than by a contractor's commercial interest.
- Documentation Control: Produce and issue construction-ready sets with full version control, maintaining a single source of truth for all project documentation.
- Technical Input to Tenders: Prepare TOR and specifications and provide technical evaluation of contractors and design proposals.
- On-Site Technical Support: Resolve technical questions and clashes during construction (RFI), decide on redesign where required, and verify that built work matches the issued set.
- Change Control & Acceptance: Maintain the technical change register and its cross-discipline impact, and provide technical sign-off of design deliverables prior to payment.
- Operator Standards Intake: Incorporate hotel-operator brand standards as design inputs and carry them through into the documentation.
Requirements & Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Architecture, Construction / Design Management or a related field.
- Experience: 8+ years in design and engineering, with a proven track record of coordinating multiple disciplines into a buildable set — not only producing a single discipline. A genuine design integrator.
- Hospitality Experience: Strong experience in hotel, resort, luxury residential or other high-end hospitality developments is highly preferred; familiarity with hotel- operator standards a plus.
- Technical Expertise: Deep understanding of architectural, structural and MEP design and their coordination; ability to read and reconcile all disciplines and catch conflicts before site.
- Proven Integrator: Demonstrated track record of running clash detection and design-coordination that resolved cross-discipline conflicts before construction. Shortlisted candidates should be prepared to present a project they personally coordinated across all disciplines into an issued construction set.
- Owner-Side Independence & Integrity: Able to hold design contractors to account, challenge scope written to a contractor's own estimate, and keep design scope — particularly MEP — independent of works-contractor influence, with no design-build conflict of interest.
- Local Market: Fluent in Indonesian building codes (SNI), permits and the local design and contractor market; experience managing outsourced drafters and design consultants.
- Tools: Strong AutoCAD skills for issue and local permitting; documentation and version control. Professional BIM command — Revit, Navisworks, BIM 360 / Autodesk Construction Cloud — and the ability to enforce BIM standards across outsourced drafters will be a strong competitive advantage.
- Communication: Bahasa Indonesia essential; working English required, to operate with international leadership and local teams.
Why Join XHotel?
- Build Something That Matters. Join an international development company creating distinctive boutique hospitality destinations in one of Indonesia's most dynamic markets.
- Own the Design Function. Take full ownership of the project's design integrity — the single point that turns fragmented drawings into one coordinated, buildable set.
- Work in Nuanu, Bali. Be part of Nuanu, a 44-hectare creative city bringing together hospitality, real estate, culture and innovation in Bali.
- Real Responsibility. Work closely with senior and international leadership, with genuine authority over design and technical decisions.
- Shape the Engineering Function. Help establish the design and documentation standards, processes and culture for future developments — not simply deliver one project.
- High Ownership. High Impact. We are looking for a hands-on design leader who thrives in a fast-moving environment, takes ownership of technical complexity and is motivated by seeing ambitious concepts become buildable reality.
