Design Coordination Manager

KEO International Consultants; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 74,000 - 113,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading design consultancy in Riyadh seeks a highly experienced Design Coordination Manager to oversee enabling works. This role involves ensuring design consistency and addressing technical alignment across various stakeholders. The ideal candidate should have at least 8 years of experience in design management and must possess a Bachelor's degree in Engineering. The position emphasizes proactive risk management and multi-disciplinary coordination, contributing to the successful execution of major development projects.

Benefits

Hybrid working arrangements

Study assistance sponsorship

Employee referral rewards

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years’ professional experience in design coordination or management roles.
• At least 5 years’ experience in a senior or lead design coordination role.
• Strong understanding of constructability principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead design coordination across all enabling and early works packages.
• Manage and coordinate design inputs from multiple teams.
• Ensure compliance with design management procedures.

Skills

Design coordination

Technical delivery

Multi-disciplinary design

Communication skills

Detail-oriented

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related technical discipline

Job description

Overview

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration – through conceptualization – to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 60 years we’ve led with vision, contributing to many of the world’s most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is recognized by ENR as one of the Top 225 International Design Firms and one of the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms. We are also ranked by World Architecture as the 51st largest global architecture firm and the #1 Firm in the Middle East Region in their 2024 WA100 Survey.

We invite you to join us. Why?

When you join KEO, you’ll discover more than just a job – you’ll find a supportive environment that fosters your professional development through internal global mobility and career development and does so within a culture that supports company-wide health and well-being through on-demand counselling services and regular workplace clinics. You will be invited to celebrate community events such as sports days, fun-runs, in-house sports teams and beach clean ups. In addition to your competitive package and benefits you will have access to a suite of policies that include hybrid working arrangements, individual athletic sponsorship, study assistance sponsorship, employee referral rewards.

Responsibilities

Our newest opportunity is for a highly experienced Design Coordination Manager to join our site supervision team in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The Design Coordination Manager shall lead and manage all design coordination activities associated with enabling and early works packages, acting as part of the Site Supervision Consultant team. The role is responsible for ensuring design consistency, constructability, and technical alignment across multiple disciplines, contractors, and stakeholders, supporting the timely issuance of construction-ready design information.

This position is critical to the early identification and resolution of design clashes, interface risks, and constructability issues, ensuring enabling works designs support safe, sequenced, and efficient construction and a smooth transition into main works packages.

The Design Coordination Manager shall be responsible for, but not limited to, the following:

• Lead design coordination across all enabling and early works packages including infrastructure, utilities, earthworks, temporary works, and early access works
• Manage and coordinate design inputs from multiple designers, specialist consultants, and contractor design teams
• Ensure design deliverables are coordinated, compliant, and issued in accordance with the approved design programme and construction sequencing requirements
• Chair design coordination meetings, technical workshops, and multi-discipline interface sessions
• Review design submissions for compliance with project requirements, applicable standards, and authority regulations
• Identify, manage, and resolve design clashes, inconsistencies, and interface issues at early stages
• Promote constructability, value engineering, risk reduction, and buildability during design development
• Coordinate design responses to site constraints, logistics, access, and sequencing requirements
• Work closely with the Stakeholder and Interface Manager to manage design-related interfaces with authorities, utilities, and third parties
• Coordinate design approvals and technical requirements with authorities, utility providers, and external stakeholders
• Support utility diversion designs, tie-ins, protection works, and early infrastructure solutions
• Align design deliverables with construction programmes and enabling works phasing
• Manage design changes, assessing impacts on cost, programme, risk, and construction methodology
• Support the transition of enabling works designs into main works packages, ensuring continuity and traceability
• Maintain design registers, design trackers, interface logs, and issue resolution records
• Prepare design status reports, technical risk summaries, and recommendations for Client review
• Ensure compliance with design management procedures, governance frameworks, and approval workflows
• Lead, manage, and mentor discipline leads and design coordinators within the supervision team
• Foster a collaborative, integrated, and solution-focused design environment across all parties

Qualifications

To be successful in this dynamic opportunity, we envision that your career journey to date will include minimum of 8 years’ professional experience in design coordination, design management, or technical delivery roles partnered with a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.

• At least 5 years’ experience in a senior or lead design coordination role on infrastructure or major development projects
• Proven experience coordinating multi-disciplinary designs for enabling works, early works, or infrastructure-led developments
• Demonstrated experience managing authority approvals, utilities coordination, and complex design interfaces
• Strong understanding of multi-disciplinary design coordination and constructability principles
• Ability to identify and resolve design and interface risks early in the project lifecycle
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and technical coordination skills
• Structured, proactive, and detail-oriented approach to design management

Professional registration is preferred

Experience working within a supervision consultant or Engineer-led environment is advantageous

KEO’s performance is founded upon integrity, results, innovation, safety and our people. We embrace diversity and recognise its’ contribution to client success wherever we work.

We are excited to hear how you can partner with our award-winning team and treat all expressions of interest confidentially.