Delivery Manager - External Areas

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 335,000 - 502,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons is seeking a Delivery Manager - External Areas in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to lead the delivery of external works across a major development program. You will coordinate interfaces between civil, utilities, landscaping, and public realm packages, ensuring safety, quality, and on-time completion.

The role requires strong leadership to align multiple teams, manage schedules, and drive handovers while maintaining HSE and contractual compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or Landscape Architecture.
• Experience coordinating multiple external construction packages and interfaces.
• Knowledge of roads, utilities, drainage, landscaping, and public realm works is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Manage delivery of external works and infrastructure across project areas.
• Coordinate packages involving public realm, roads, utilities, landscaping, irrigation, drainage, lighting.
• Monitor schedules, quality, and HSE obligations.
• Coordinate interfaces between external works and buildings, transportation, and utility networks.
• Lead regular delivery meetings and track actions.
• Monitor progress against baselines and milestones.
• Coordinate with Engineering teams to resolve design interfaces and constructability concerns.
• Support commercial teams with construction records and variations.

Skills

External works

Project delivery

Construction management

Stakeholder coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, Landscape Architecture

Tools

Method Statements

Inspection and Test Plans

RFIs

Quality control

Job description

Delivery Manager - External Areas Job Snapshot Role: Delivery Manager - External Areas Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Industry: Construction Function: Project Management Experience: Not specified Job Type: Full-time Position Overview Delivery Manager - External Areas in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a senior Construction opportunity responsible for coordinating the successful delivery of external works across a major development program. Parsons is hiring an experienced delivery professional to manage construction interfaces, contractors, schedules, quality, safety, stakeholder requirements, and multidisciplinary packages covering public realm, infrastructure, landscaping, roads, utilities, and associated external areas.

Job Details Country: Saudi Arabia City: Riyadh Industry: Construction Function: Project Management Salary: 30000-45000 Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer. Gender: Any Candidate Nationality: Any Job Type: Full-time

Role Context

The Delivery Manager will provide coordinated leadership across external areas where multiple construction packages and disciplines converge. The assignment may encompass roads, pedestrian environments, landscaping, irrigation, utilities, drainage, lighting, hardscape, softscape, street furniture, access routes, and other public realm infrastructure associated with the development. A central requirement of the role is managing interfaces. External areas frequently represent the final integration point between buildings, infrastructure networks, landscape works, transportation systems, and operational assets. The Delivery Manager will coordinate these dependencies, establish clear delivery priorities, resolve constraints, and drive work packages toward safe completion and handover.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage delivery of external works and associated infrastructure across assigned project areas.
• Coordinate construction packages involving public realm, roads, utilities, landscaping, irrigation, drainage, lighting, and site development works.
• Establish delivery priorities and ensure individual packages remain aligned with overall program milestones.
• Coordinate interfaces between external works and buildings, structures, transportation systems, utility networks, MEP services, and operational facilities.
• Monitor contractor and subcontractor performance against approved schedules, technical requirements, quality standards, and HSE obligations.
• Review construction sequencing to ensure underground infrastructure, surface finishes, landscaping, and final installations proceed in the correct order.
• Work with Engineering teams to resolve design interfaces, constructability concerns, technical queries, and incomplete information affecting site progress.
• Coordinate RFIs, design clarifications, site instructions, and approved design changes through the appropriate project processes.
• Monitor construction progress against baseline schedules, look-ahead programs, key milestones, and completion priorities.
• Collaborate with Project Controls and Planning teams to identify schedule risks, critical interfaces, and emerging delays.
• Develop practical mitigation and recovery measures where construction performance falls behind planned targets.
• Coordinate availability of work fronts, access, materials, resources, temporary facilities, and construction logistics.
• Lead multidisciplinary coordination between Civil, Structural, Utilities, Landscape, Irrigation, Electrical, Mechanical, Architectural, and specialist teams.
• Ensure roadways, pedestrian routes, plazas, landscape areas, and public spaces integrate correctly with surrounding infrastructure.
• Coordinate utility crossings, tie-ins, chambers, drainage connections, irrigation networks, lighting, and other external services.
• Monitor hardscape installation, paving, curbs, street furniture, signage, barriers, and associated public realm elements where included in the scope.
• Coordinate softscape and irrigation activities with preceding civil and utility works to prevent rework or damage.
• Work with Quality teams to verify implementation of Inspection and Test Plans and approved project procedures.
• Track defects, NCRs, quality observations, punch-list items, and incomplete works through resolution.
• Coordinate with HSE personnel to maintain safe access, excavation controls, lifting requirements, traffic management, and protection of workers and the public.
• Review contractor Method Statements and delivery proposals for major external work activities.
• Monitor materials, equipment, and specialist products required for external area completion.
• Coordinate stakeholders whose activities or approvals influence construction progress and final acceptance.
• Lead regular delivery meetings and ensure actions are assigned, tracked, and closed within required timeframes.
• Escalate critical interface, technical, commercial, or schedule matters that could affect program objectives.
• Support commercial teams with construction records and technical information associated with variations and claims.
• Coordinate phased completion where external areas must be released progressively for access, operations, events, or subsequent contractors.
• Protect completed assets and finishes from damage caused by continuing construction activities.
• Drive readiness reviews for completed external zones and identify outstanding requirements before handover.
• Coordinate testing, commissioning, inspections, authority requirements, and final acceptance where applicable.
• Ensure as-built drawings, inspection records, testing documentation, operation and maintenance information, and closeout records are completed.
• Maintain clear delivery reporting covering progress, constraints, risks, interfaces, decisions, and upcoming priorities.
• Provide leadership and direction to project engineers, construction personnel, consultants, and contractor teams supporting assigned areas.
• Promote collaborative problem-solving while maintaining accountability for safety, quality, schedule, and completion.

Ideal Profile

The position is suited to an experienced project or construction delivery professional with a background in major infrastructure, urban development, public realm, external works, landscaping, civil engineering, or multidisciplinary construction programs. A bachelor 's degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, or another relevant technical discipline would provide a strong foundation for the role. Candidates should have practical experience managing packages that involve multiple external disciplines rather than a single isolated construction scope. Knowledge of roads, utilities, drainage, hardscape, softscape, irrigation, lighting, pedestrian infrastructure, and site development interfaces will be particularly useful. The successful candidate should understand construction sequencing and recognize the dependencies between underground utilities, civil works, landscape infrastructure, surface treatments, testing, commissioning, and final completion. Strong experience coordinating contractors, consultants, designers, project controls personnel, quality teams, HSE professionals, and client stakeholders is important. The role requires the ability to identify delivery constraints early, establish clear priorities, make sound site decisions, and maintain progress across multiple concurrent work fronts. Previous involvement with giga-projects, large mixed-use developments, major public realm programs, transportation infrastructure, airports, or complex urban developments in Saudi Arabia or the wider Middle East would be advantageous.

Skills Set

• External works
• Project delivery
• Construction management
• Public realm
• Civil infrastructure
• Road construction
• Site development
• Hardscape works
• Softscape works
• Landscape construction
• Irrigation systems
• Utility infrastructure
• Drainage systems
• Street lighting
• Pedestrian infrastructure
• Paving works
• Street furniture
• Construction sequencing
• Interface management
• Multidisciplinary coordination
• Contractor management
• Subcontractor management
• Construction planning
• Project scheduling
• Look-ahead planning
• Project controls
• Workfront management
• Construction logistics
• Method Statements
• Inspection and Test Plans
• Quality control
• NCR management
• Punch-list management
• RFIs
• Technical queries
• Design coordination
• Constructability reviews
• HSE coordination
• Traffic management
• Stakeholder coordination
• Risk management
• Progress monitoring
• Testing and commissioning
• Phased handover
• As-built documentation
• Project closeout

Why Join Us

Riyadh 's large-scale urban transformation is creating complex delivery environments where external areas must bring infrastructure, landscape, transportation, utilities, and public spaces together as a coordinated whole. This position provides an opportunity to manage those critical interfaces and influence how completed development areas function, connect, and transition into operation. The role offers broad exposure across multidisciplinary construction packages and provides an experienced delivery manager with responsibility for turning fragmented work fronts into coordinated, safe, high-quality, and handover-ready external environments.

About the Company

Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, construction management, infrastructure, technology, and program services across major urban development and transportation projects. In Saudi Arabia, its multidisciplinary teams support complex programs through capabilities in project delivery, construction management, infrastructure, public realm, engineering, project controls, quality, and HSE.