Planning Director
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About the Role
Parsons Corporation seeks a Planning Director in Riyadh to translate a city-wide Digital Infrastructure Masterplan into phased implementation packages. The role leads planning for fiber, mobile, data centers, and smart systems, coordinating with multiple stakeholders and authorities.
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Responsibilities
- Define planning horizons for fiber, mobile, data centers, and smart systems
- Chair planning review boards and enforce compliance with standards
- Lead demand forecasting and capacity modelling for fixed, mobile, and data center infrastructure
- Develop fiber routing and tower siting strategies
- Coordinate data center and edge computing siting and phasing plans
- Integrate planning with other utilities (SEC power, NWC water, district cooling)
- Manage change requests, planning deviations, and phasing adjustments
- Track delivery progress against planning baselines and report variances
- Ensure planning compliance with standards for critical facilities
- Coordinate planning approvals with CST, SEC, NWC, MOMRAH, SDAIA, and other authorities
- Build and lead planning teams for fiber, mobile, and data centers
Requirements
- Master's degree in engineering, ICT, Telecoms, Digital Infrastructure, Urban/Infrastructure Planning, or Project Management
- 20+ years of experience in ICT, telecoms, fiber deployment, smart city, data center, utilities, or critical infrastructure planning
- Proven digital infrastructure planning leadership covering masterplans, phased implementation, and demand forecasting
- Strong multidisciplinary coordination experience with design, construction, utilities, and authorities
- Strong planning governance and delivery control capability
- PMP/PRINCE2/Chartered status preferred
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Role Purpose
- Translate the city wide Digital Infrastructure Masterplan into phased implementation and planning packages.
Key Responsibilities
- Define planning horizons (short , mid , long term) for fiber, mobile, data centers, and smart systems.
- Chair planning review boards; enforce compliance with standards and masterplan objectives.
- Align capacity, resilience, and cybersecurity planning with overall project.
- Lead demand forecasting and capacity modelling for fixed, mobile, and data center infrastructure.
- Develop fiber routing and tower siting strategies; validate district connectivity plans.
- Coordinate data center and edge computing siting and phasing plans.
- Review and approve Networks for DC, MMRs/POPs, duct banks, and right of way allocations.
- Integrate planning with SEC power, NWC water, district cooling, and other utilities.
- Provide planning baselines for design and construction teams; monitor adherence.
- Manage change requests, planning deviations, and phasing adjustments.
- Support constructability reviews, sequencing, and co build opportunities.
- Track delivery progress against planning baselines; report variances.
Qualifications & Experience
- Master's degree in engineering, ICT, Telecoms, Digital Infrastructure, Urban/Infrastructure Planning, or Project Management.
- PMP/PRINCE2/Chartered status preferred.
- 20+ years' experience in ICT, telecoms, fiber deployment, smart city, data center, utilities, and critical infrastructure planning.
- Proven digital infrastructure planning leadership covering masterplans, phased implementation, demand forecasting, and capacity modelling.
- Strong multidisciplinary coordination experience with design, construction, utilities, authorities, MNOs, tower companies, fiber operators, DC operators.
- Strong planning governance and delivery control capability including planning review boards, baseline management, change control, phasing adjustments, progress tracking, risk management.
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