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About Parsons Corporation

Parsons is a global leader in the engineering and construction industry, committed to valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth. The company cultivates an innovative culture focused on empowering its employees to achieve their full potential.

The Role of Design Manager

Parsons Corporation is seeking a full-time Design Manager to join its team in Tabuk. This role involves providing overall managerial and technical leadership for a major engineering discipline or a multidisciplinary engineering function on large and complex programs. The Design Manager will lead engineering resources, technical delivery, staffing, quality, productivity, and discipline governance, while also supporting project execution, business development, and continuous improvement initiatives across the organization. Candidates are required to have over 10 years of relevant experience.

Core Responsibilities

• Provide overall managerial and technical direction for a major engineering discipline or multidisciplinary engineering function.
• Lead engineering delivery on large and complex projects and programs, including assignments exceeding $250 million in total installed cost.
• Review and approve discipline staffing budgets, resource plans, staffing assignment schedules, and workforce forecasts.
• Monitor staffing requirements across assigned projects and ensure appropriate engineering resources are available to meet delivery commitments.
• Monitor the quality, progress, productivity, and technical performance of the discipline across multiple projects.
• Collaborate with Project Managers and Project Directors to identify and resolve staffing, quality, schedule, productivity, and technical delivery issues.
• Establish, implement, and maintain engineering standards, procedures, technical manuals, and discipline-specific best practices.
• Recommend improvements to department procedures, workflows, technical standards, and delivery methodologies.
• Provide technical oversight for complex engineering issues, ensuring solutions comply with applicable codes, standards, project requirements, and industry best practices.
• Ensure discipline activities are performed within approved overhead and project budgets.

Team Leadership and Development

• Lead the preparation of the discipline’s annual salary plan and manage salary actions in accordance with approved budgets and company procedures.
• Recruit, interview, evaluate, and select engineering and technical personnel.
• Manage employee development, succession planning, performance evaluations, coaching, counseling, and corrective actions as required.
• Ensure new employees receive appropriate orientation, technical onboarding, and awareness of company policies and procedures.
• Provide leadership and mentoring to engineers, designers, CAD personnel, and technical support staff.
• Lead technical committees, working groups, or improvement initiatives designed to develop staff capability and enhance engineering performance.

Strategic Contribution and Technical Advancement

• Support pre-contract, proposal, and business development activities by serving as a senior technical consultant.
• Provide technical input to proposals, project execution strategies, staffing plans, technical presentations, and client discussions.
• Monitor department performance and implement measures to improve productivity, resource utilization, and cost efficiency.
• Actively participate in and promote Quality Improvement initiatives across the engineering discipline.
• Promote collaboration across engineering disciplines, project teams, clients, consultants, contractors, and other stakeholders.
• Maintain awareness of current engineering technologies, software capabilities, digital tools, and industry developments.
• Evaluate opportunities to implement new technologies and engineering processes that improve technical quality, productivity, and project delivery.
• Represent the engineering discipline in internal management meetings, project reviews, client meetings, and technical workshops.

Required Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in a relevant engineering discipline, demonstrating progressive leadership and technical expertise in managing complex projects and teams.