Senior Manager: Station MEP📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Parsons Corporation is seeking a Senior Manager: Station MEP to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time, client-facing role is central to managing the end-to-end design and build process for Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) works within station and associated ancillary buildings on major rail/transit and complex infrastructure projects.

As a senior position, this role focuses on project and design management, technical assurance, and contractor oversight on behalf of the client, ensuring safe, timely, and compliant delivery within budget and according to employer’s requirements, codes, and standards.

Key Responsibilities

The Senior Manager: Station MEP acts as the primary Project Management Consultant (PMC) point of contact for all station MEP matters. This involves representing the client in meetings with designers, contractors, authorities, and other stakeholders, and providing independent, objective advice on technical, program, commercial, and risk issues related to station MEP works.

The role ensures that employer’s requirements, contracts, and design briefs for station MEP systems are clearly communicated, understood, and implemented across all project phases. Specific duties include:

• Managing and overseeing the full MEP design lifecycle for stations: concept, schematic, detailed design, and IFC stages.
• Reviewing and commenting on design submissions, drawings, calculations, models, and specifications for various MEP systems including HVAC, power distribution, lighting, fire protection, plumbing and drainage, vertical transportation, ELV/BMS, and life safety systems.
• Ensuring design compliance with employer’s requirements, project technical standards, local codes, international standards, fire and life safety regulations, and authority requirements.
• Chairing and coordinating design review meetings, value engineering and constructability workshops, and multi-discipline coordination sessions.
• Overseeing requirements management and traceability, design verification and validation, and close-out of design review comments.
• Ensuring interfaces between MEP, architecture, structure, rail systems, and station operations are identified and resolved at the design stage.
• Supporting the preparation and review of technical sections of tender documents, scopes of work, and employer’s requirements for station MEP packages.

Construction and Project Oversight

From a PMC perspective, this role involves overseeing and managing construction and installation activities for station MEP systems, ensuring alignment with approved designs, specifications, and quality standards. Key responsibilities include:

• Monitoring contractor construction methodologies, sequencing, and resource planning for MEP works, and coordinating the resolution of site technical issues and RFIs.
• Tracking and managing MEP interfaces with civil works, finishes, systems integration, and other trades to avoid clashes and rework.
• Monitoring compliance with project HSE requirements during MEP construction activities.
• Reviewing and approving testing and commissioning strategies, plans, procedures, and integrated test schedules for station MEP systems, and monitoring their execution.
• Coordinating with operations, maintenance, and systems teams to ensure MEP systems meet handover, operability, maintainability, and life-cycle requirements.
• Overseeing completion and quality of as-built documentation, O&M manuals, training materials, and handover deliverables.
• Managing and tracking station MEP design and construction activities against the approved master schedule and key milestones, identifying critical path activities and initiating recovery plans.
• Monitoring MEP-related costs, variations, and potential claims, and maintaining and updating risk registers for station MEP works.
• Providing accurate, timely progress reports and presentations for client senior management and governance committees.
• Coordinating with client internal departments and local authorities to ensure MEP designs and installations meet operational and business requirements and facilitate timely approvals.
• Leading and mentoring a team of station MEP engineers and specialists within the PMC team.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates for this role should possess the following qualifications and experience:

• Minimum 15 years of experience in MEP engineering for major buildings and rail/transit stations, with substantial design and site supervision exposure.
• Significant experience working within a PMC, client organization, or international consultancy on large, multi-discipline infrastructure or transportation projects.
• Demonstrated track record managing station or complex building MEP packages from design through testing and commissioning.
• Prior experience on rail/metro stations or other complex, public-use facilities (*, airports, hospitals, large commercial developments) is highly advantageous.
• Deep technical understanding of station MEP systems, including HVAC, power distribution, emergency power, lighting, public health, fire protection, fire alarm, BMS/SCADA, ELV systems, and life-safety strategies.
• Strong knowledge of relevant local codes, international standards, and fire and life safety regulations.

Required Skills and Attributes

The successful candidate will demonstrate a range of professional skills and attributes, including:

• Proven ability to manage complex design and construction processes, with strong planning and organizational skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and negotiation skills in a multi-cultural, multi-discipline environment.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities, with a focus on risk and issue management.
• High level of professionalism, integrity, and client-service orientation.
• Proficiency with standard project management and office tools; familiarity with BIM/Revit and common CDE/document control systems is an advantage.