Senior Interface lead📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Parsons Corporation is seeking a Senior Interface Lead to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role is integral to managing the overall interface strategy across a significant airport development program. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring seamless integration and coordination across various project disciplines and stakeholders within a complex environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the overall interface management strategy for the airport development program.
• Establish and maintain interface management procedures, workflows, tools, reporting mechanisms, and interface registers.
• Provide leadership and guidance to interface engineers and project stakeholders, ensuring effective identification, tracking, and closure of all project interfaces.
• Act as the key interface point between the client, airport operator, delivery partner teams, design consultants, main contractors, subcontractors, utility providers, specialist suppliers, and government authorities.
• Develop, maintain, and monitor the project interface register, tracking requirements, responsibilities, actions, and closure status.
• Prepare interface management reports, meeting minutes, action trackers, and technical records.
• Maintain accurate records of interface agreements, decisions, and approvals; support handover documentation and ensure all critical interfaces are formally closed before completion.

Interface Management and Coordination

• Coordinate technical interfaces across civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, ICT/ELV, airfield systems, AGL, utilities, security, and specialist airport systems.
• Identify potential design conflicts, scope gaps, and coordination issues; facilitate technical workshops to resolve complex interface challenges.
• Ensure design solutions are coordinated and aligned across all disciplines.
• Manage interfaces associated with passenger terminals, concourses, runways, taxiways, cargo facilities, aircraft aprons and stands, roads and external infrastructure, utility networks, and airport operational systems.
• Establish effective communication channels, lead interface coordination meetings, and ensure timely resolution of stakeholder interface issues.

Technical Integration and Project Support

• Ensure seamless integration between airside and landside infrastructure, and between buildings, infrastructure, and operational systems to support operational readiness.
• Identify critical interfaces that may impact schedule, cost, quality, or operational readiness; prepare interface status reports and dashboards, and escalate unresolved risks with mitigation recommendations.
• Review design submissions from an interface perspective and ensure construction activities are coordinated between contractors and disciplines.
• Support resolution of site interface issues, RFIs, technical queries, and design changes; coordinate temporary works, sequencing, and access requirements.
• Support BIM-based interface coordination and digital engineering workflows, including reviewing federated models, coordinating clash detection, and supporting Common Data Environment (CDE) processes.
• Ensure interface information is accurately captured within project information systems.
• Identify interface-related risks and develop mitigation strategies, assessing impacts on project delivery and operations.
• Support interface risk workshops and constructability reviews, capture lessons learned, and promote proactive interface management practices.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates for this full-time role should possess between 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in interface management, preferably within large-scale infrastructure or airport development projects.

Project Context

This position offers the opportunity to contribute to a major airport development program, working within a dynamic and complex project environment in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.