Senior Design Manager📣 إعلان

منذ 4 ساعات تقريباً

	نوع العقد	دوام كامل
	طبيعة الوظيفة	بالموقع
	الموقع	الرياض

وصف الوظيفة

Role Overview

Parsons Corporation is seeking a Senior Design Manager to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position involves leading and managing complex, multidisciplinary design programs and projects, providing strategic direction across the full design lifecycle. The Senior Design Manager will be responsible for design scope, quality, schedule, budget, technical integration, stakeholder coordination, and commercial performance, ensuring that design solutions meet client objectives, contractual requirements, regulatory standards, and Parsons' expectations for technical excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the planning, management, coordination, and delivery of multidisciplinary design activities across assigned projects and programs.
Manage design programs for projects typically up to $100 million in total installed cost, ensuring delivery within approved scope, schedule, budget, and quality requirements.
Establish the overall design vision, delivery strategy, technical objectives, quality expectations, and design management processes.
Lead the development and implementation of the Design Execution Plan and support integration with applicable Health and Safety and Quality Assurance/Quality Control plans.
Define design requirements across all disciplines and monitor draft and final deliverables for compliance with project criteria, client requirements, codes, standards, and contractual obligations.
Manage design activities from concept and preliminary design through detailed design, construction support, and project completion.
Coordinate multidisciplinary interfaces between architecture, engineering, infrastructure, utilities, MEP, landscape, specialist systems, and other relevant disciplines.
Mobilize and coordinate resources across departments, offices, and technical disciplines to establish effective multidisciplinary design teams.
Develop integrated design schedules, budgets, resource plans, deliverable registers, and execution strategies in coordination with Project Management and Project Controls teams.
Monitor design progress against approved schedules and identify potential delays, technical constraints, resource issues, and delivery risks.
Identify and manage design-related risks associated with scope, cost, schedule, quality, interfaces, constructability, and regulatory requirements.
Lead design-related scope management and change control, ensuring changes are appropriately identified, assessed, documented, and approved.
Oversee the timely preparation, tracking, and closure of design-related change orders and variations.
Lead design reviews, technical workshops, interdisciplinary coordination meetings, peer reviews, and constructability reviews.
Review design deliverables for technical quality, completeness, coordination, constructability, maintainability, and compliance.
Ensure effective integration between design and downstream procurement, construction, commissioning, operations, and lifecycle requirements.
Coordinate construction-stage design support, including RFIs, technical queries, site coordination, and design modifications where applicable.
Maintain clear documentation and traceability of key design decisions, actions, approvals, assumptions, and technical commitments.
Monitor and report design performance to project and senior management, highlighting milestones, risks, decisions, changes, and issues.
Serve as the primary design representative with clients, consultants, contractors, and other key stakeholders during project execution.
Manage stakeholder and authority interfaces and support technical approvals throughout the design lifecycle.
Provide technical leadership, mentoring, coaching, and development support to Design Leads and other design personnel.
Support business development, proposals, technical submissions, and identification of additional or follow-on design opportunities with clients.
Promote effective use of digital design, BIM, collaboration platforms, and emerging technologies to improve design quality and delivery efficiency.

Required Qualifications and Experience

Minimum 15+ years of related professional experience, including substantial experience managing complex multidisciplinary design projects.
Significant experience in a Senior Design Manager, Design Manager, Engineering Manager, or equivalent design leadership capacity.
Proven experience leading large multidisciplinary design teams and multiple design packages or projects.
Strong experience managing design through multiple project stages, from concept development through detailed design and construction support.
Strong understanding of design management principles, processes, governance, and technical assurance.
Demonstrated experience managing design scope and deliverables, schedules and budgets, multidisciplinary interfaces, design quality and technical assurance, design changes and variations, design risks and opportunities, and stakeholder and authority requirements.
Strong understanding of the integration between design, engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operations.
Experience developing and implementing Design Execution Plans, design management procedures, deliverable schedules, and technical review processes.
Proven ability to identify design-related cost, schedule, quality, and technical risks and implement effective mitigation or corrective actions.
Thorough knowledge of relevant industry practices, design standards, codes, regulations, and technical requirements.
Experience managing consultants, designers, specialist subcontractors, and multidisciplinary technical teams.
Experience leading client-facing design meetings, technical workshops, design reviews, and stakeholder presentations.
Strong commercial awareness with an understanding of design scope, contracts, variations, budgets, and commercial performance.
Excellent written, verbal, visual, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
Proven leadership, negotiation, decision-making, and problem-solving capabilities.
Strong knowledge of current design technologies, BIM, digital engineering, and collaboration platforms.

Desired Attributes

Experience managing design programs associated with projects approaching or exceeding $100 million in total installed cost.
Experience delivering major infrastructure, buildings, transportation, mixed-use, hospitality, or urban development projects.
Experience within PMC, Delivery Partner, design consultancy, design-build, EPC, or client-side environments.
Strong knowledge of BIM-based design coordination, Common Data Environments (CDE), digital engineering, and information management processes.
Experience implementing design governance, technical assurance, peer review, and stage-gate processes.
Strong understanding of value engineering, design optimization, constructability reviews, and lifecycle cost considerations.
Experience managing authority approvals and complex stakeholder interfaces.
Experience supporting procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and operational readiness from a design management perspective.
Strong mentoring and team development capabilities with experience developing emerging design leaders.
Ability to establish design standards, processes, and governance frameworks across multidisciplinary teams.
Strong strategic thinking with the ability to balance design quality, technical requirements, commercial objectives, schedule, and constructability.

About Parsons Corporation

Parsons Corporation fosters an innovative culture guided by a vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and promoting growth. The company aims to empower its employees to achieve their full potential within a collaborative and supportive environment.