Director - Stations
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About the Role
Lead architectural and engineering design for automated rail stations, ensuring technical integrity, passenger experience, and compliance with safety standards.
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Responsibilities
- Provide architectural, engineering, and technical leadership for station design and delivery
- Own functional design of stations including passenger flow, PSD integration, and emergency egress
- Lead coordination between station architecture, structural engineering, and MEP systems
- Direct and evaluate Tier 1 international architectural firms and engineering consultants
- Establish technical assurance gateways and safety by design protocols
- Champion value engineering workshops to optimize spatial footprints and constructability
- Serve as primary technical interface for real estate development teams
- Protect rail asset's operational and structural rights of way in a developer led environment
- Proactively resolve design conflicts between developer ambitions and rail requirements
Requirements
- Extensive experience in transit station design and delivery
- Leadership experience managing international design consultants
- Knowledge of MEP systems integration and tunnel ventilation
- Experience with driverless rail transit systems (GoA4)
- Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills
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Role Overview
- Parsons are looking for a top tier Director of Stations to join their dynamic team!
- As the Director of Stations, you will provide the architectural, engineering, and technical leadership required to design and deliver a network of stations for a fully automated, Grade of Automation 4 (GoA4) driverless rail transit system.
- Operating client side within a fast paced, developer led environment, you will hold ultimate accountability for station technical integrity, passenger experience, and complex physical integration.
- You will lead stations from initial concept and functional architecture through detailed design, systems coordination, and construction readiness.
- This high profile mandate requires managing international design consultants, enforcing rigorous internal technical governance, and negotiating structural, spatial, and MEP interfaces directly with adjacent real estate developers to safeguard the transit network's long term performance.
What You'll Be Doing
- Passenger Flow & Layouts: Own the functional design of all stations. Ensure optimal platform screen door (PSD) integration, vertical transportation capacity, emergency egress compliance, and fluid passenger circulation tailored for high capacity driverless environments.
- MEP & Systems Integration: Lead the complex coordination between station architecture, structural engineering, and mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems including specialized tunnel ventilation, smoke extraction, and environmental control systems.
- Transit Design: Ensure station facilities seamlessly embed critical transit sub systems (communications, SCADA, security, signaling rooms) while maintaining design aesthetics and operational flexibility.
- Design Oversight: Direct, evaluate, and hold accountable Tier 1 international architectural firms, engineering consultants, and Project Management Officers (PMOs). Drive design reviews to maintain quality, schedule, and budgetary boundaries.
- Internal Governance: Establish and execute technical assurance gateways, safety by design protocols, and configuration control management. Ensure station designs pass strict internal stage gates and fully comply with global safety, RAMS, and local civil defense standards.
- Value Engineering: Champion rigorous value engineering workshops to optimize spatial footprints, constructability, and lifecycle maintenance costs without compromising safety or passenger experience.
- Real Estate Alignment: Serve as the primary technical interface for internal and external development teams. Coordinate station physical footprints, structural loads, and utility connections where stations integrate with or sit adjacent to mixed use developments.
- Commercial Boundary Management: Navigate a developer led environment by protecting the rail asset's operational and structural rights of way, managing complex boundary matrices, and aligning station delivery schedules with surrounding master planned phases.
- Conflict Resolution: Proactively resolve high stakes design conflicts between developer real estate ambitions and strict rail transit requirements, ensuring a win win integration that enhances urban connectivity.
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