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About the Role

Parsons Corporation is seeking a Utilities Design Director to provide strategic leadership, technical governance, and design management oversight for all utility engineering activities on a major Airport, Infrastructure, and Airfield Development Project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role requires over 10 years of experience and involves leading the utilities design strategy, technical assurance, multidisciplinary coordination, and delivery management of complex utility networks. These networks support critical airport infrastructure including passenger terminals, runways, taxiways, cargo aprons, aircraft stands, and associated facilities.

Utilities Design Leadership and Strategy

The Director will provide executive leadership and strategic direction for all utilities design activities across the airport development program. Key responsibilities include:

• Establishing utilities engineering strategies, design standards, technical governance frameworks, and delivery objectives.
• Leading and managing multidisciplinary utilities design teams, encompassing civil, wet utilities, dry utilities, and specialist infrastructure disciplines.
• Ensuring utilities design deliverables align with project objectives, operational requirements, sustainability targets, and client expectations.
• Providing technical leadership and decision-making support to Project Directors and senior management.

Technical Oversight and Design Management

This role involves comprehensive oversight of utility master planning and design development, ensuring robust and integrated solutions for airport infrastructure. Specific duties include:

• Leading the review and approval of utility master plans, engineering strategies, and infrastructure development plans.
• Overseeing design development for potable water, firefighting, stormwater drainage, sewerage, irrigation networks, utility tunnels/corridors, and electrical/ICT ducting infrastructure.
• Ensuring utility systems are appropriately sized, resilient, maintainable, and integrated with airport operational requirements.
• Reviewing engineering calculations, hydraulic models, technical reports, specifications, and design submissions.
• Providing strategic oversight of utilities interfaces associated with passenger terminals, runways, cargo facilities, aircraft aprons, and landside developments.
• Coordinating utility planning with airfield, civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, ICT, and specialist airport systems.

Technical Governance and Compliance

The Director is responsible for establishing and maintaining rigorous technical standards and ensuring compliance across all utility design activities. Key aspects include:

• Establishing and maintaining utilities design review procedures and technical assurance processes.
• Reviewing and approving major engineering submissions, design reports, calculations, specifications, and technical solutions.
• Ensuring compliance with international engineering standards, airport design requirements, local authority regulations, client specifications, and sustainability objectives.
• Leading technical reviews, value engineering exercises, and design optimization initiatives.
• Providing technical direction on complex engineering challenges and design decisions.

Multidisciplinary Coordination and Project Support

Effective collaboration and support throughout the project lifecycle are central to this role. Responsibilities include:

• Leading coordination between utilities disciplines and other engineering functions, managing complex interfaces with civil infrastructure, airfield works, buildings, MEP, and ICT systems.
• Supporting BIM coordination, clash resolution, and digital engineering initiatives.
• Providing technical leadership during construction, installation, testing, commissioning, and handover phases.
• Reviewing construction-related technical submissions such as shop drawings, method statements, material approvals, RFIs, and design changes.
• Acting as the senior technical representative for utilities design coordination with client organizations, airport authorities, utility providers, government agencies, and contractors.
• Leading technical workshops, design reviews, and strategic coordination meetings, and supporting authority approvals and regulatory submissions.

Quality, Risk Management, and Reporting

The Director will ensure high standards of quality and manage risks effectively, while providing clear communication to leadership. Key duties include:

• Establishing utilities quality assurance and technical compliance requirements, ensuring designs comply with project quality standards and regulatory requirements.
• Leading technical risk assessments and mitigation planning, identifying design risks affecting cost, schedule, safety, and operational performance.
• Providing executive-level technical reports, design status updates, risk assessments, and strategic recommendations.
• Monitoring utilities design progress against project milestones and delivery objectives, and providing technical advice to senior project leadership and client representatives.