Design Manager - Infrastructure
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About the Role
Mace is seeking a Design Manager - Infrastructure for a major mixed-use development programme in Saudi Arabia. You will manage multi-disciplinary design activities, coordinate consultants and stakeholders, and ensure compliance with standards and schedules.
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Responsibilities
- Manage and coordinate multi disciplinary design activities across project stages
- Support senior leadership in overseeing design delivery and monitoring progress
- Coordinate consultants, technical teams, contractors, and stakeholders
- Review and assess design submissions, consultant deliverables, and contractor submittals
- Lead resolution of design clashes, technical queries, and constructability challenges
- Maintain design management systems including trackers, action logs, and approval workflows
- Facilitate effective communication and collaboration among internal teams and stakeholders
- Promote safety, sustainability, and compliance with industry standards
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline
- 7–10 years’ experience in design coordination or design management roles
- Experience working with multi disciplinary design consultants
- Good understanding of design development stages and coordination requirements
- Strong organizational, communication, and stakeholder coordination skills
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Overview
- Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to unlock potential in every person or project.
- This is an opportunity to work on one of the largest programmes in Saudi Arabia, a major mixed use development including sports facilities, entertainment, and arts along with all associated infrastructure.
You’ll be responsible for
- Manage and coordinate multi disciplinary design activities across project stages, ensuring compliance with approved briefs, standards, budgets, schedules, and delivery requirements.
- Support senior leadership in overseeing design delivery, monitoring progress, maintaining governance processes, and providing regular design status reports.
- Coordinate consultants, technical teams, contractors, and stakeholders to deliver integrated, compliant, and high quality design solutions.
- Review and assess design submissions, consultant deliverables, contractor submittals, and technical documentation to ensure completeness, quality, coordination, and specification compliance.
- Lead the resolution of design clashes, technical queries, constructability challenges, interface issues, and design changes while managing associated risks.
- Maintain design management systems, including trackers, action logs, approval workflows, technical records, and reporting tools.
- Facilitate effective communication, collaboration, and information distribution among internal teams, consultants, clients, and stakeholders.
- Promote safety, sustainability, and compliance by applying industry standards, safety in design principles, regulations, and organizational values.
You’ll need to have
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or related discipline.
- 7–10 years’ experience in design coordination or design management roles.
- Experience working with multi disciplinary design consultants.
- Good understanding of design development stages and coordination requirements.
- Strong organizational, communication, and stakeholder coordination skills.
Our values
- Safety first Going home safe and well: We champion a safe, diverse and inclusive working environment.
- Client focus Deliver on our promise: We own the quality of deliverables, strategic outcomes and build long term relationships.
- Integrity Always do the right thing: We influence positive outcomes within our industry, while always aligning with our compliance obligations.
- Create opportunity For our people to excel: We champion a continuous improvement culture throughout all activities.
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