Director Stations

About the Role

Parsons Corporation is seeking a Director Stations to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves providing architectural, engineering, and technical leadership for the design and delivery of a network of stations for a fully automated, Grade of Automation 4 (GoA4) driverless rail transit system. The Director will operate client-side within a developer-led environment, holding ultimate accountability for station technical integrity, passenger experience, and complex physical integration.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead stations from initial concept and functional architecture through detailed design, systems coordination, and construction readiness.
• Manage international design consultants and enforce internal technical governance.
• Negotiate structural, spatial, and MEP interfaces directly with adjacent real estate developers to safeguard transit network performance.
• Oversee the functional design of all stations, ensuring optimal platform screen door (PSD) integration, vertical transportation capacity, emergency egress compliance, and fluid passenger circulation for high-capacity driverless environments.
• Lead complex coordination between station architecture, structural engineering, and mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems, including specialized tunnel ventilation, smoke extraction, and environmental control systems.
• Ensure station facilities seamlessly embed critical transit sub-systems (communications, SCADA, security, signaling rooms) while maintaining design aesthetics and operational flexibility.
• Direct, evaluate, and hold accountable Tier 1 international architectural firms, engineering consultants, and Project Management Officers (PMOs), driving design reviews to maintain quality, schedule, and budgetary boundaries.
• Establish and execute technical assurance gateways, safety-by-design protocols, and configuration control management, ensuring station designs comply with global safety, RAMS, and local civil defense standards.
• Champion value engineering workshops to optimize spatial footprints, constructability, and lifecycle maintenance costs without compromising safety or passenger experience.
• Serve as the primary technical interface for internal and external development teams, coordinating station physical footprints, structural loads, and utility connections where stations integrate with or sit adjacent to mixed-use developments.
• Protect the rail asset’s operational and structural rights-of-way, manage complex boundary matrices, and align station delivery schedules with surrounding master-planned phases in a developer-led environment.
• Proactively resolve design conflicts between developer real estate ambitions and rail transit requirements to ensure integrated urban connectivity.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience is required.
• Demonstrated leadership in architectural, engineering, and technical aspects of large-scale transit projects.
• Experience with fully automated, Grade of Automation 4 (GoA4) driverless rail transit systems.
• Proven ability to manage international design consultants and enforce rigorous technical governance.
• Experience in negotiating complex interfaces with real estate developers.

Work Environment

This role is based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and operates within a fast-paced, developer-led environment. The position is full-time.