Interface Manager (Water Transmission )

About the Role

Parsons is seeking an experienced Interface Manager (Water Transmission) to join its team in Tabuk, Tabuk. This full-time role involves managing and assuring the end-to-end design and interface coordination process across multiple disciplines and packages within a PMC context. The position requires a strong background in MEP and Water Transmission.

Role Context and Objectives

The Interface Manager acts on behalf of the client, ensuring that all designers, contractors, and systems integrators deliver coordinated, safe, and compliant designs and constructed works. This includes meeting employer’s requirements, statutory obligations, and project objectives for scope, time, cost, and quality. The role focuses on engineering governance, interface management, and safety assurance, covering all interfaces, discussions, design workshops, and technical interface aspects.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary PMC focal point for design coordination and interface management across the program.
• Represent the client in high-level design, coordination, and interface meetings with various stakeholders.
• Ensure employer’s requirements, technical standards, and safety obligations are communicated and implemented.
• Provide independent advice and recommendations to client leadership on engineering, safety, interface, and program matters.
• Lead and manage the overall multi-discipline design process (concept, preliminary, detailed, and IFC) across architectural, civil/structural, MEP, water transmission, and other disciplines.
• Review and comment on key design submissions, technical reports, drawings, models, calculations, and specifications.
• Oversee requirements management and traceability, ensuring proper capture, allocation, and verification of technical and safety requirements.
• Monitor and enforce adherence to the project’s technical assurance and design governance processes.
• Establish and manage the project-wide interface management framework, including processes, tools, and responsibilities.
• Identify, classify, and maintain a register of all key interfaces.
• Chair interface coordination meetings and interface control working groups, driving resolution of interface issues.
• Review and monitor interface control documents, matrices, and agreements prepared by designers and contractors.
• Escalate critical interface risks and conflicts to the client with options and recommendations.
• Oversee the integration of engineering and safety requirements throughout the design and build phases.
• Review and monitor RAMS documentation, safety cases, hazard logs, and risk assessments.
• Ensure design solutions incorporate safety by design, including construction safety, operational safety, and maintainability.
• Coordinate with independent safety assessors, regulators, and third-party reviewers.
• Verify that all required safety approvals, certifications, and authority clearances are obtained.
• Manage alignment between design deliverables and construction methodology/sequencing.
• Support the client in assessing and approving design changes, technical deviations, and value engineering proposals.
• Ensure consistent application of configuration management across design and construction phases.
• Coordinate closure of design-related non-conformances, technical queries, and RFIs.
• Monitor design and interface activities against the integrated master program and key milestones.
• Maintain and regularly update design and interface risk registers.
• Provide clear, concise reports, dashboards, and presentations for the client.
• Support project controls teams in assessing schedule and cost impacts of design/interface issues.
• Coordinate with internal client stakeholders and external authorities/utility providers.
• Facilitate cross-discipline alignment among multiple design consultants, contractors, and suppliers.
• Lead and mentor a team of design managers, interface engineers, and safety/assurance specialists.
• Promote a culture of quality, safety, collaboration, and proactive risk management.
• Ensure robust QA/QC processes are applied to design deliverables and interface documentation.
• Capture, document, and disseminate lessons learned in design, interface management, and safety assurance.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, or related discipline).
• Approximately 15 years’ experience in major infrastructure or complex multi-discipline projects, with a strong emphasis on design management and interface coordination.
• Significant experience in a PMC, client, or international consultancy role managing design and build contracts.
• Proven track record leading multi-discipline design teams and managing interfaces between civil, MEP, systems, and third-party stakeholders.
• Demonstrable experience in engineering assurance, safety by design, and RAMS safety case processes.
• Experience working on large programs with multiple contractors and packages, ideally including rail/metro or similarly complex environments.

Required Skills

• Strong technical understanding of multi-discipline design processes and interfaces across civil, structural, MEP, and systems.
• Solid knowledge of systems engineering principles, interface management, and safety RAMS methodologies.
• Excellent project management, planning, and coordination skills in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a structured approach to risk and issue management.
• Highly effective communication, facilitation, and negotiation skills, including the ability to explain complex technical issues to non-technical stakeholders.
• High level of professionalism, integrity, and client-service orientation.
• Proficiency with standard project management and collaboration tools.
• Fluency in English (written and spoken).

Desired Qualifications and Skills

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Project Management, or a related field.
• Professional engineering registration/chartership (CEng, PE).
• Project management certification (PMP, PRINCE2) and/or systems engineering/safety certifications.
• Familiarity with requirements management systems, BIM/CDE platforms, and document control systems.
• Fluency in Arabic.