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About the MEP Design Manager Role

Parsons Corporation is seeking an experienced MEP Design Manager (Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing) to join its team in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position involves leading MEP planning, technical oversight, due diligence, and multidisciplinary integration for a large mission-critical facility. The successful candidate will provide technical leadership across mechanical, electrical, plumbing, life safety, and controls/BMS systems, ensuring solutions support critical operational requirements, constructability, resiliency, commissioning, and overall operational readiness objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead MEP due diligence, technical assessments, and concept-level planning to support time-sensitive facility and investment decisions.
• Plan and coordinate existing-condition assessments of mechanical, electrical, plumbing, life safety, controls, and Building Management Systems (BMS).
• Assess existing MEP systems for capacity, condition, reliability, maintainability, code compliance, remaining service life, and operational constraints.
• Develop concept-level MEP solutions for system upgrades, replacement, resiliency, redundancy, hardening, and utility service strategies.
• Ensure MEP solutions align with mission-critical performance, reliability, availability, and operational continuity requirements.
• Identify critical MEP constraints, technical risks, and infrastructure limitations that could impact project feasibility, cost, schedule, or operational readiness.
• Coordinate closely with the Program Lead, Scheduler/Planner, A/E teams, independent consultants, and Parsons technical specialists.
• Lead multidisciplinary MEP coordination with IT/telecom, security, structural, architectural, fire and life safety, controls, and operational teams.
• Ensure MEP requirements are fully integrated into master Critical Path Method (CPM) schedules, pre-construction schedules, bid schedules, cost plans, logistics strategies, phasing plans, and project risk registers.
• Define and coordinate shutdowns, outage windows, system tie-ins, temporary services, bypass arrangements, and operational continuity requirements.
• Develop MEP phasing strategies that allow construction activities to proceed while maintaining critical facility operations.
• Identify MEP long-lead equipment and establish realistic procurement requirements and durations for major equipment, including generators, UPS systems, switchgear, transformers, chillers, CRAC units, Air Handling Units (AHUs), pumps, and controls/BMS equipment.
• Support Construction Manager-led procurement and trade packaging strategies for MEP systems.
• Review MEP procurement sequencing and ensure equipment delivery requirements are aligned with construction and commissioning milestones.
• Develop and review constructible MEP fit-out sequencing, including first-fix and second-fix activities, equipment installation, containment, access requirements, testing, and commissioning.
• Coordinate MEP requirements associated with ceiling spaces, raised floors, plant rooms, equipment access, maintenance zones, and service routes.
• Support commissioning-driven planning, including pre-functional testing, functional testing, Integrated Systems Testing (IST), system turnover, cutover, and operational readiness.
• Provide technical MEP inputs and narratives to support conceptual estimating, cost planning, and reconciliation with independent cost consultants.
• Review MEP cost assumptions and identify technical scope items that could create significant cost or schedule exposure.
• Lead MEP risk identification, assessment, mitigation planning, and technical risk reporting.
• Develop “what-if” scenarios to evaluate alternative phasing, shutdown, outage, procurement, and implementation strategies.
• Assess the potential schedule, cost, operational, and technical impacts of alternative MEP solutions.
• Prepare technical assessments, executive-level reports, presentations, recommendations, and decision briefs for senior stakeholders.
• Translate complex MEP issues into clear recommendations that support timely project decision-making.
• Support quality assurance and quality control of MEP studies, assessments, design documentation, and technical deliverables.
• Review technical documentation for consistency, completeness, constructability, and alignment with project requirements.
• Support the development of MEP requirements for future Construction Management Information System (CMIS) workflows.
• Define documentation requirements for RFIs, technical submittals, commissioning records, testing documentation, asset information, and project closeout.
• Support lessons learned, technical knowledge transfer, and continuous improvement throughout project development.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of demonstrated experience delivering MEP due diligence, feasibility assessments, existing-condition evaluations, and concept planning during pre-construction phases.
• Strong experience with mission-critical MEP systems and high-availability infrastructure.
• Experience developing resiliency, redundancy, hardening, and system reliability strategies.
• Experience planning operational shutdowns, outages, system tie-ins, temporary services, and cutovers within operational facilities.
• Ability to integrate MEP scope with project schedules, procurement strategies, cost plans, construction sequencing, commissioning, and operational readiness milestones.
• Experience identifying and planning procurement strategies for long-lead MEP equipment.
• Strong understanding of MEP constructability, installation sequencing, access requirements, logistics, and multidisciplinary coordination.
• Experience supporting commissioning, testing, system turnover, and Integrated Systems Testing.
• Working knowledge of relevant building codes, engineering standards, safety requirements, and QA/QC practices applicable to complex facilities.
• Strong understanding of project risk management and the ability to identify technical, schedule, cost, and operational risks.
• Experience coordinating with A/E consultants, contractors, construction managers, cost consultants, schedulers, and specialist engineering teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with a practical understanding of construction and facility operations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to translate complex engineering matters into clear, decision-grade recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Strong leadership, multidisciplinary coordination, and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Ability to manage multiple technical priorities within a fast-paced and deadline-driven project environment.

Desired Skills and Attributes

• Experience delivering mission-critical facilities such as data centers, control and command centers, hospitals and healthcare facilities, secure facilities, and operations centers.
• Experience with high-availability mechanical and electrical infrastructure and critical system redundancy requirements.
• Previous experience supporting * Government agencies or similarly regulated owners and facilities.
• Experience leading commissioning management and Integrated Systems Testing strategies for complex facilities.
• Experience coordinating secure and mission-critical facility requirements with IT/telecom, cybersecurity, security, controls, and operational stakeholders.
• Experience working within PMC, Construction Management, Delivery Partner, design-build, or client-side environments.
• Knowledge of digital engineering, BIM, and multidisciplinary MEP coordination processes.
• Experience developing conceptual cost plans and supporting cost reconciliation exercises.
• Strong understanding of MEP lifecycle cost, maintainability, energy efficiency, and operational resilience.
• Experience developing project phasing and logistics strategies within occupied or continuously operational facilities.
• Strong executive-level reporting, presentation, and stakeholder engagement capabilities.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and deadline-driven approach.
• Strong collaborative skills across design, construction, scheduling, cost, IT/telecom, security, commissioning, and owner teams.
• Practical, field-informed approach with the ability to anticipate constructability, sequencing, commissioning, and operational challenges.
• Commitment to technical excellence, quality, resilience, and continuous improvement.

Work Environment and Location

This full-time position is based in Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. The role involves working on large mission-critical facility projects and requires close coordination with various internal and external teams. The work environment is fast-paced and deadline-driven, demanding strong leadership and multidisciplinary coordination skills.

Application Information

Candidates meeting the specified qualifications are encouraged to apply for this full-time position with Parsons Corporation in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.