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About Parsons and the Role

Parsons Corporation is seeking a highly experienced Design Manager to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position is integral to an innovative culture that empowers individuals to achieve their full potential.

Role Context and Purpose

Within the Planning & Design Management stream, the Design Manager reports to the Director of Infrastructure Planning & Design. The primary purpose of this role is to manage and coordinate the delivery of multi-disciplinary design across assigned projects, packages, or asset scopes, ensuring strict adherence to project briefs, established standards, allocated budgets, and defined delivery programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Support Senior Management and the Senior Design Manager in the day-to-day management, coordination, and assurance of design delivery across all project stages.
• Coordinate design consultants and technical teams to ensure compliant, integrated, and high-quality design outputs.
• Review and monitor design submissions for quality, completeness, coordination, and alignment with project requirements prior to approvals.
• Support the resolution of design clashes, technical queries, constructability issues, and cross-disciplinary coordination matters.
• Maintain design trackers, action logs, registers, approval workflows, and technical records to support effective governance and reporting.
• Apply standardized design management templates, tools, methodologies, and reporting procedures across assigned projects, and monitor design progress against agreed milestones, schedules, and stage gate deliverables.
• Coordinate interfaces between disciplines, infrastructure systems, assets, consultants, stakeholders, and delivery teams to ensure integrated outcomes.
• Identify, track, and support mitigation of design-related risks, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies.
• Liaise with internal stakeholders, consultants, support functions, and project teams to support timely reviews, approvals, and decision-making.
• Ensure accurate, timely, and consistent communication of design information across all stakeholders.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Demonstrated experience working with multi-disciplinary design consultants.
• A good understanding of design development stages and associated coordination requirements.
• Strong organizational, communication, and stakeholder coordination skills.

Experience Level

Candidates for this full-time position are expected to have between 5 to 10 years of relevant professional experience.

Location

This role is based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.