Design Manager jobs in Calgary, AB

Shane Homes Group of Companies, a leading residential home builder constructing quality homes in premier communities since 1979, is thrilled to announce an opportunity for a Drafting Production Manager to join our Drafting & Design Team in Calgary, AB.

Why Join Shane Homes?

At Shane Homes, people are our priority. Whether it’s our teammates, homeowners, or the communities we serve, we are committed to doing the right thing and treating everyone fairly. We offer more than just jobs—we design futures and build careers. This means our team members are empowered to take control of their journey with the encouragement and support of their leaders.

We reward our employees for their hard work and dedication towards meeting company goals with our unique profit-sharing program. Shane Homes strives to build a culture focused on family values, community involvement and continuous innovation within the home building industry.

Here’s What You Bring to the Team:

As our Drafting Production Manager, you are an experienced people leader with strong technical knowledge of Alberta residential construction and a practical approach to managing production. You know how to set clear expectations, balance competing priorities, and support a team in delivering accurate, permit-ready and buildable drawing packages.

Reporting to the General Manager of Operations, you will lead approximately 12–16 architectural technologists and production drafters supporting our single-family homebuilding operations. You will also contribute to the broader Shane Homes management team, working closely with other departments to keep information, decisions and drawing packages moving smoothly from sale through construction.

You bring a calm, accountable leadership style and create urgency while keeping your team focused and supported. Your success comes from building a capable team, strengthening processes, and delivering consistent results.

What You’ll Be Responsible For:

• Lead and develop your team: Set priorities, clarify responsibilities, coach employees, recognize strong contributions, and address performance gaps promptly and fairly.
• Manage production workflow: Oversee work from intake and assignment through check sets, blacklines, revisions, permit packages, spec releases, additionals and final construction drawings.
• Keep delivery on track: Establish practical production targets, monitor progress, resolve bottlenecks, and communicate schedule risks before they affect construction.
• Balance workload and capacity: Match assignments to team capabilities, plan for absences and changing volumes, and maintain a reliable four-to-six-week capacity outlook.
• Maintain drawing quality: Strengthen technical reviews and quality controls to reduce recurring errors, permit comments and downstream rework.
• Provide technical guidance: Serve as a senior resource for Part 9 requirements under the National Building Code – Alberta Edition, along with municipal permitting requirements, developer controls and community standards.
• Collaborate across departments: Coordinate with Sales, Interior Design, Estimating, Purchasing, Construction, Land, Engineering, external consultants and municipal partners to support complete and timely drawing packages.
• Improve processes and technology: Refine drafting standards, templates, checklists, document control and reporting, while identifying practical opportunities for CAD/BIM tools and automation.
• Anticipate technical changes: Assess changes to codes, energy requirements, municipal interpretations and construction practices, and guide the team through the required adjustments.

Qualifications & Skills:

• A diploma or degree in Architectural Technology, Building Technology, Architectural Engineering Technology, or a closely related discipline. An equivalent combination of education and relevant experience will be considered.
• Progressive residential drafting or architectural technology experience in Alberta, ideally within production homebuilding or a similar high-volume environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading a drafting or architectural technology team, including workload planning, coaching, performance management and quality assurance.
• Expert working knowledge of Part 9 requirements under the National Building Code – Alberta Edition.
• Strong understanding of permitting and approval requirements in Calgary and surrounding municipalities, including developer controls and community standards.
• Advanced proficiency with residential drafting systems and document-control practices. Experience with AutoCAD, AutoCAD Architecture, Revit or comparable CAD/BIM platforms is valuable.
• Proven ability to coordinate architectural, structural, mechanical, grading and consultant information into accurate, buildable drawings.
• Strong organizational, analytical and decision-making skills, with the ability to communicate priorities and risks clearly.
• A respectful, practical communication style and the ability to build effective relationships with technical teams, senior leaders and field staff.
• Experience with production planning, process improvement, automation or reporting dashboards is an asset.

Ready to Build Your Future with Shane Homes?

If you are passionate about developing people, improving production, and delivering quality work, we would love to hear from you.

Shane Homes is committed to a respectful and inclusive workplace. We thank all applicants for their interest. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

Pay: From $110,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company events
• Dental care
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Extended health care
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Paid time off
• Profit sharing
• Vision care

Work Location: In person