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About Parsons Corporation

Parsons Corporation is a global leader in the engineering, construction, technical, and management services industry. Guided by a leadership vision focused on valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, Parsons cultivates an innovative culture designed to empower its employees to achieve their full potential.

The Role of Design Manager

Parsons Corporation is seeking a highly experienced Design Manager to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position is within the Planning & Design Management stream and reports directly to the Director of Infrastructure Planning & Design. The Design Manager will be responsible for managing and coordinating the delivery of multi-disciplinary design across assigned projects, packages, or asset scopes, ensuring adherence to project briefs, established standards, budgets, and delivery programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Support Senior Management and the Senior Design Manager in the daily 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.
• 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 facilitate timely reviews, approvals, and decision-making.
• Ensure accurate, timely, and consistent communication of design information across all stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related discipline.
• A minimum of 10 years’ experience in design coordination or design management roles.
• Demonstrated experience working with multi-disciplinary design consultants.

Essential Skills

• Good understanding of design development stages and coordination requirements.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Effective communication skills.
• Proficiency in stakeholder coordination.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.