Senior Manager: Design & Interface
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About the Role
Parsons Corporation seeks a Senior Project Manager for Design & Interface in Riyadh to lead design coordination and interface management on a major infrastructure program. The role requires 15+ years of experience in multi-discipline projects, strong engineering governance, and safety assurance.
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Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary PMC focal point for design coordination and interface management across the program
- Represent the client in high‑level design, coordination, and interface meetings with consultants, contractors, systems integrators, authorities, and third parties
- Ensure that employer’s requirements, technical standards, and safety obligations are clearly communicated, understood, and implemented by all delivery partners
- Lead and manage the overall multi‑discipline design process (concept, preliminary, detailed, and IFC) across architectural, civil/structural, MEP, rail systems, and other disciplines
- Review and comment on key design submissions, technical reports, drawings, models, calculations, and specifications to ensure compliance
- Chair and coordinate design review workshops, value engineering sessions, and constructability reviews
- Establish and manage the project‑wide interface management framework, including processes, tools, and responsibilities
- Identify, classify, and maintain a register of all key interfaces
- Chair interface coordination meetings and interface control working groups, driving resolution of interface issues
- Oversee, from a PMC perspective, the integration of engineering and safety requirements throughout the design and build phases
- Manage alignment between design deliverables and construction methodology/sequencing
- Support the client in assessing and approving design changes, technical deviations, and value engineering proposals
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, or related discipline)
- Approximately 15 years’ experience in major infrastructure, rail/transit, or complex multi‑discipline projects, with strong emphasis on design management and interface coordination
- Significant experience in a PMC, client, or international consultancy role managing design and build contracts
- Proven track record leading multi‑discipline design teams and managing interfaces between civil, MEP, systems, and third‑party stakeholders
- Demonstrable experience in engineering assurance, safety by design, and RAMS safety case processes
- Strong technical understanding of multi‑discipline design processes and interfaces across civil, structural, MEP, and systems
- Excellent project management, planning, and coordination skills
- Fluency in English (written and spoken)
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Job Description
- Parsons are looking to appoint an experienced Senior Project Manager Design & Interface to support its growing team!
- The Senior PM: Design & Interface is a integrated team client facing role for a PMC, responsible for managing and assuring the end‑to‑end design and interface coordination process across multiple disciplines and packages (civil, stations, systems, MEP, rolling stock, etc.).
- The role has a strong focus on engineering governance, interface management, and safety assurance, rather than operations.
- Acting on behalf of the client, the position ensures that all designers, contractors, and systems integrators deliver coordinated, safe, and compliant designs and constructed works that meet employer’s requirements, statutory obligations, and project objectives for scope, time, cost, and quality.
What You'll Be Doing
- Serve as the primary PMC focal point for design coordination and interface management across the program.
- Represent the client in high‑level design, coordination, and interface meetings with consultants, contractors, systems integrators, authorities, and third parties.
- Ensure that employer’s requirements, technical standards, and safety obligations are clearly communicated, understood, and implemented by all delivery partners.
- Provide independent, objective advice and recommendations to the client leadership on engineering, safety, interface, and program matters.
- Lead and manage the overall multi‑discipline design process (concept, preliminary, detailed, and IFC) across architectural, civil/structural, MEP, rail systems, and other disciplines.
- Review and comment on key design submissions, technical reports, drawings, models, calculations, and specifications to ensure compliance with employer’s requirements, project standards, applicable local regulations, and relevant international standards.
- Chair and coordinate design review workshops, value engineering sessions, and constructability reviews, ensuring that design decisions are robust, buildable, and safe.
- Oversee requirements management and traceability, ensuring that all technical and safety requirements are properly captured, allocated, and verified.
- Monitor and enforce adherence to the project’s technical assurance and design governance processes.
- Establish and manage the project‑wide interface management framework, including processes, tools, and responsibilities.
- Identify, classify, and maintain a register of all key interfaces (civil–systems, stations–MEP, systems–rolling stock, depots, third‑party utilities, etc.).
- Chair interface coordination meetings and interface control working groups, driving resolution of interface issues and avoiding late changes.
What Required Skills You'll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, or related discipline).
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Project Management, or related field is an advantage.
- Professional engineering registration/chartership CEng, PE) is highly desirable.
- Project management certification (PMP, PRINCE2) and/or systems engineering/safety certifications are advantageous.
- Approximately 15 years’ experience in major infrastructure, rail/transit, or complex multi‑discipline projects, with strong emphasis on design management and interface coordination.
- Significant experience in a PMC, client, or international consultancy role managing design and build contracts.
- Proven track record leading multi‑discipline design teams and managing interfaces between civil, MEP, systems, and third‑party stakeholders.
- Demonstrable experience in engineering assurance, safety by design, and RAMS safety case processes.
- Experience working on large programs with multiple contractors and packages, ideally including rail/metro or similarly complex environments.
- Strong technical understanding of multi‑discipline design processes and interfaces across civil, structural, MEP, and systems.
- Solid knowledge of systems engineering principles, interface management, and safety RAMS methodologies.
- Excellent project management, planning, and coordination skills in a complex, multi‑stakeholder environment.
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