Design Manager Landscape Architecture

About Egis (KSA)

Egis (KSA) is seeking a Design Manager - Landscape Architecture to join their team in Riyadh. This is a permanent contract position for professionals with over 10 years of experience in landscape architecture and planning. The role involves contributing to prominent projects across the region, including historic, cultural, and large-scale urban park developments.

Role Overview

The Design Manager will lead the day-to-day management and coordination of landscape and public-realm design. This includes overseeing projects from early-stage concept through detailed design and IFC delivery. The role requires ensuring design excellence, commercial control, and full interdisciplinary integration across all project phases.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, manage, and deliver assigned projects within approved time, fee, and quality parameters.
• Monitor fee utilisation, scope changes, and initiate change-control processes as required.
• Prepare and maintain resource and deliverable schedules in coordination with the Head of Department and Project Managers.
• Contribute to sub-consultant procurement, scope definition, and technical performance assessment.
• Lead, mentor, and motivate a multi-disciplinary team including Landscape, Irrigation, BIM, Visualisation, CAD, and Environmental specialists.
• Implement structured QA/QC and peer-review procedures at every design gateway.
• Coordinate early integration of civil, MEP, and infrastructure requirements.
• Ensure landscape designs incorporate sustainability, accessibility, and safety-in-design principles.
• Deliver complex landscape projects while providing technical and managerial guidance throughout design and construction support.
• Delegate tasks effectively, monitor progress, manage risks, and report proactively.
• Ensure compliance with internal QMS and ISO 9001 processes.
• Represent the Landscape discipline in client and consultant meetings, managing expectations and promoting company values.
• Contribute to proposals, including scope identification, design methodology, management plans, deliverables lists, and design budgets.
• Maintain formal documentation such as Minutes of Meetings, Design-Change Logs, Coordination Trackers, and Risk Registers.

Design and Technical Expertise

• Oversee and review preparation of all landscape deliverables, including Design Delivery Plans, Reports, Drawings, Hardscape/Softscape Packages, Irrigation & Grading Plans, Planting Strategies, Sustainability Narratives, and Material Schedules.
• Collaborate with the Head of Department and Project Managers on complex technical challenges, ensuring constructability and environmental performance.
• Ensure accurate production of tender and IFC documentation aligned with authority standards (RCRC, MOMRA, SBC, DM, etc.).
• Develop and track deliverables lists per contract scope.
• Maintain awareness of current codes, standards, and sustainable design best practices.
• Lead BIM integration using Revit LA / Civil 3D / Navisworks, ensuring model accuracy, coordination, and LOD compliance.
• Review sub-consultant deliverables and coordinate with Architecture, Structure, MEP, Infrastructure, and ID teams.
• Work with Quantity Surveyors and Specification Writers to develop landscape specifications, Bills of Quantities (BOQs), and cost schedules.
• Contribute to Value-Engineering, tender evaluation, and site support.
• Champion innovation in digital design, visualisation, and sustainable materials.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in landscape architecture and design management.
• Proven ability to lead client presentations, design workshops, and coordination reviews.
• Demonstrated capability to translate complex technical data into clear visual and verbal narratives for stakeholders.
• Experience in developing and maintaining strong relationships with clients, partners, and authorities.
• Ability to foster a collaborative and respectful culture aligned with company values.
• Experience in maintaining high client-satisfaction scores through proactive service.

Compensation

The salary range for this position is 35,000 - 45,000 SAR per month.