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About the Role

Parsons Corporation is seeking a Senior Project Manager (Rail): Technical (Architecture, Civil, Structures & Rail) to join our team in Riyadh, Riyadh. This is a senior, client-facing, full-time position within a Project Management Consultancy (PMC) organization. The role focuses on managing and assuring the end-to-end design and build process for architectural, civil, structural, and rail infrastructure works on a major multi-modal hub program.

This is a non-operational role primarily responsible for project and design management, technical governance, safety by design, and contractor oversight on behalf of the client. The Senior Project Manager ensures that all consultants, contractors, and stakeholders deliver coordinated, safe, compliant, and constructible designs and built works that meet employer’s requirements, authority regulations, and project objectives for scope, time, cost, quality, and safety.

Client Representation and Governance

• Act as the primary PMC focal point for technical matters across architecture, civil, structures, and rail infrastructure (track, earthworks, rail civil interfaces).
• Represent the client in high-level technical, design, and coordination meetings with consultants, contractors, authorities, and third parties.
• Ensure employer’s requirements, design briefs, and technical standards, including rail-specific criteria, are clearly communicated, understood, and implemented by all delivery partners.
• Provide independent advice and recommendations to the client on technical, risk, and program issues related to the built environment and rail scope.

Design Management and Technical Assurance

• Lead and manage the full design lifecycle (concept, schematic, detailed design, IFC) for architectural works, civil and structural works, and rail civil and track-related infrastructure.
• Review and comment on design submissions, BIM models, calculations, reports, and specifications to ensure compliance with employer’s requirements, project design criteria, local codes, authority requirements, and applicable international standards.
• Chair and coordinate multi-discipline design review workshops, value engineering, and constructability reviews to optimize solutions for safety, functionality, operations, and cost.
• Oversee requirements management and traceability for the architectural, civil/structural, and rail infrastructure scope from requirements capture through verification and close-out.
• Ensure adherence to technical assurance processes, including formal design verification and validation, peer reviews, and independent checks.

Interface Coordination and Compliance

• Collaborate with all interfaces between architecture/civil/structures/rail and other disciplines, managing interface registers and ensuring early identification and resolution of cross-discipline and cross-contract issues.
• Embed safety by design principles into all architectural, civil, structural, and rail infrastructure solutions, covering construction safety, operational safety, and maintainability.
• Oversee compliance with engineering and safety standards, including structural robustness, fire and life safety, evacuation strategy, and rail-specific safety requirements.
• Coordinate with independent reviewers, safety assessors (ISA), and authorities to secure approvals and certifications.
• Align design outputs with construction methodologies and sequencing for stations, civil structures, and rail infrastructure; identify constructability issues early and drive resolution.
• Support the client in evaluating and approving design changes, technical deviations, and value engineering proposals from contractors.

Program, Cost, and Risk Management

• Monitor design and construction-related technical activities against the integrated master schedule and key milestones for stations, civil structures, and rail infrastructure.
• Identify critical path activities and constraints; develop and monitor mitigation and recovery actions where delays arise.
• Support the client and project controls team in assessing schedule and cost impacts of technical issues or design changes.
• Maintain and regularly update risk registers for architectural, civil/structural, and rail scope, defining mitigation and contingency measures.
• Prepare clear, concise technical and progress reports, dashboards, and presentations for client leadership and governance boards.

Stakeholder Coordination and Leadership

• Coordinate with internal client stakeholders (Operations, Maintenance, Safety, Rail Systems, Commercial, Planning, Urban Development) to ensure built and rail infrastructure supports future operational and business needs.
• Interface with planning authorities, rail regulators, building control, civil defense, utility providers, and other regulators to support design approvals, NOCs, and permits.
• Manage coordination between multiple design consultants, contractors, and third parties to ensure consistent architecture, structural, and rail infrastructure solutions across the program.
• Mentor a team of architectural, civil, structural, and rail engineers/design managers within the PMC.
• Promote a culture of quality, safety, collaboration, and proactive risk management across design and construction support activities.
• Ensure robust QA/QC processes for technical deliverables, including design reviews, independent checks, and verification of as-built information.

Qualifications and Experience

• Demonstrated experience, typically 5-10 years, in a senior technical or project management role within architectural, civil, structural, or rail infrastructure projects.
• Proven ability to manage end-to-end design and build processes for complex infrastructure programs.
• Strong understanding of technical governance, safety by design principles, and contractor oversight.
• Experience in client representation and coordination with multiple stakeholders, authorities, and third parties.