Design Manager - Infrastructure Coordination

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

Job summary

Parsons Corporation leads infrastructure planning and design delivery in Saudi Arabia, coordinating multidisciplinary design teams across complex packages to ensure robust, integrated infrastructure solutions. The Design Manager role focuses on controlling interfaces, consultants, approvals, and technical coordination while driving design quality and schedule performance on major programs in Riyadh.

The position requires a hands-on leader with senior design oversight, risk management, and a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a closely related technical discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in design coordination or design management roles.
• Strong understanding of multidisciplinary design development and coordination processes.
• Practical experience managing consultants and technical teams across complex projects.
• Familiarity with design stages from concept through detailed design and approval.
• Demonstrated ability to review submissions for technical completeness and cross-disciplinary coordination.
• Experience resolving design clashes, interfaces, and constructability concerns.
• Strong understanding of design governance, stage gates, approvals, and technical review workflows.
• Experience maintaining design trackers, action logs, technical registers, and approval records.
• Able to monitor several concurrent design workstreams against defined milestones.
• Strong organizational skills with disciplined follow-up of outstanding actions.
• Effective stakeholder coordination across consultants, project management, and technical teams.
• Able to communicate technical issues clearly to both specialist and non-specialist stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving capability and a practical approach to design resolution.
• Comfortable working in a hands-on design management environment with multiple priorities.
• Experience on infrastructure, transportation, utilities, or major development programs is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Support senior management and the Senior Design Manager with day-to-day control of multidisciplinary design delivery.
• Coordinate consultants, technical specialists, and internal project teams across assigned infrastructure packages.
• Ensure design outputs comply with approved briefs, project standards, technical requirements, budgets, and delivery programs.
• Review design submissions for completeness, coordination, technical quality, and readiness for formal approval.
• Identify incomplete, conflicting, or non-compliant design information before it affects downstream activities.
• Monitor design development across concept, preliminary, detailed, and subsequent project stages.
• Coordinate cross-disciplinary reviews to ensure civil, structural, utilities, transport, landscape, architectural, and other relevant systems remain integrated.
• Resolve design clashes and interface conflicts involving different disciplines, systems, assets, or packages.
• Coordinate responses to technical queries and ensure issues are progressed to clear and documented resolution.
• Support constructability reviews and identify design conditions that could create construction, access, sequencing, or operational difficulties.
• Maintain design trackers, submission registers, approval logs, action lists, technical records, and decision histories.
• Monitor consultant responses and ensure outstanding design actions are closed within agreed timeframes.
• Apply standardized design management procedures, templates, review workflows, and reporting methodologies.
• Track design progress against approved schedules, key milestones, and stage gate requirements.
• Highlight delayed submissions, unresolved technical issues, and approval risks to management.
• Coordinate dependencies between infrastructure systems, consultants, project teams, and external stakeholders.
• Manage design interfaces between separate packages to avoid gaps, duplication, or incompatible assumptions.
• Identify design assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and technical risks affecting delivery.
• Maintain visibility of design-related risks and support implementation of mitigation actions.
• Coordinate internal technical reviews and consolidate comments before issuing formal responses.
• Liaise with project teams and support functions to secure timely reviews, approvals, and decisions.
• Maintain clear communication between design consultants, management, stakeholders, and delivery teams.
• Support preparation of design status reports and management updates.
• Participate in design workshops, coordination meetings, technical reviews, and stage gate discussions.
• Ensure agreed design decisions are documented and communicated consistently.
• Monitor consultant performance against scope, schedule, and required quality standards.
• Escalate persistent design coordination issues that threaten project milestones or technical outcomes.
• Support value-focused design discussions where alternative approaches may improve delivery efficiency.
• Promote consistent information management and traceability across design documentation.
• Help maintain alignment between approved design intent and evolving project requirements.

Skills

Design management

Multidisciplinary design coordination

Infrastructure design

Design assurance

Design review

Consultant management

Technical coordination

Design submissions

Stage gate management

Design governance

Design trackers

Approval workflows

Technical registers

Clash resolution

Constructability review

Design risk management

Schedule coordination

Stakeholder coordination

Design reporting

Design documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

Design Manager - Infrastructure Coordination

Job Snapshot

Role: Design Manager - Infrastructure Coordination

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Industry: Engineering

Function: Design

General Experience: 10 years in design coordination or design management

Job Type: Full-time

Job Details

Country: Saudi Arabia

City: Riyadh

Industry: Engineering

Function: Design

General 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 Design Manager will operate within the Planning and Design Management stream and support the delivery of coordinated, technically robust design packages across multiple infrastructure workstreams. The position requires direct involvement in design reviews, consultant management, technical interfaces, approvals, risk tracking, and schedule performance. Its primary business impact is to reduce design delays, prevent coordination failures, improve submission quality, and maintain a clear path from design development through approval and downstream project delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Support senior management and the Senior Design Manager with day-to-day control of multidisciplinary design delivery.
• Coordinate consultants, technical specialists, and internal project teams across assigned infrastructure packages.
• Ensure design outputs comply with approved briefs, project standards, technical requirements, budgets, and delivery programs.
• Review design submissions for completeness, coordination, technical quality, and readiness for formal approval.
• Identify incomplete, conflicting, or non-compliant design information before it affects downstream activities.
• Monitor design development across concept, preliminary, detailed, and subsequent project stages.
• Coordinate cross-disciplinary reviews to ensure civil, structural, utilities, transport, landscape, architectural, and other relevant systems remain integrated.
• Resolve design clashes and interface conflicts involving different disciplines, systems, assets, or packages.
• Coordinate responses to technical queries and ensure issues are progressed to clear and documented resolution.
• Support constructability reviews and identify design conditions that could create construction, access, sequencing, or operational difficulties.
• Maintain design trackers, submission registers, approval logs, action lists, technical records, and decision histories.
• Monitor consultant responses and ensure outstanding design actions are closed within agreed timeframes.
• Apply standardized design management procedures, templates, review workflows, and reporting methodologies.
• Track design progress against approved schedules, key milestones, and stage gate requirements.
• Highlight delayed submissions, unresolved technical issues, and approval risks to management.
• Coordinate dependencies between infrastructure systems, consultants, project teams, and external stakeholders.
• Manage design interfaces between separate packages to avoid gaps, duplication, or incompatible assumptions.
• Identify design assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and technical risks affecting delivery.
• Maintain visibility of design-related risks and support implementation of mitigation actions.
• Coordinate internal technical reviews and consolidate comments before issuing formal responses.
• Liaise with project teams and support functions to secure timely reviews, approvals, and decisions.
• Maintain clear communication between design consultants, management, stakeholders, and delivery teams.
• Support preparation of design status reports and management updates.
• Participate in design workshops, coordination meetings, technical reviews, and stage gate discussions.
• Ensure agreed design decisions are documented and communicated consistently.
• Monitor consultant performance against scope, schedule, and required quality standards.
• Escalate persistent design coordination issues that threaten project milestones or technical outcomes.
• Support value-focused design discussions where alternative approaches may improve delivery efficiency.
• Promote consistent information management and traceability across design documentation.
• Help maintain alignment between approved design intent and evolving project requirements.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor 's degree in Engineering or a closely related technical discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in design coordination or design management roles.
• Strong understanding of multidisciplinary design development and coordination processes.
• Practical experience managing consultants and technical teams across complex projects.
• Familiarity with design stages from concept through detailed design and approval.
• Demonstrated ability to review submissions for technical completeness and cross-disciplinary coordination.
• Experience resolving design clashes, interfaces, and constructability concerns.
• Strong understanding of design governance, stage gates, approvals, and technical review workflows.
• Experience maintaining design trackers, action logs, technical registers, and approval records.
• Able to monitor several concurrent design workstreams against defined milestones.
• Strong organizational skills with disciplined follow-up of outstanding actions.
• Effective stakeholder coordination across consultants, project management, and technical teams.
• Able to communicate technical issues clearly to both specialist and non-specialist stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving capability and a practical approach to design resolution.
• Comfortable working in a hands-on design management environment with multiple priorities.
• Experience on infrastructure, transportation, utilities, or major development programs is advantageous.

Skills Set

• Design management
• Multidisciplinary design coordination
• Infrastructure design
• Design assurance
• Design review
• Consultant management
• Technical coordination
• Design submissions
• Stage gate management
• Design governance
• Design trackers
• Approval workflows
• Technical registers
• Action tracking
• Interface management
• Clash resolution
• Constructability review
• Technical queries
• Design risk management
• Design dependencies
• Design constraints
• Design progress monitoring
• Schedule coordination
• Consultant performance monitoring
• Stakeholder coordination
• Technical workshops
• Design reporting
• Design documentation
• Decision tracking
• Cross-disciplinary integration
• Project design standards

Why Join Us

Riyadh 's major infrastructure and development programs require experienced design managers who can control interfaces, consultant performance, approvals, and technical coordination across multiple disciplines. This role provides direct involvement in complex Engineering delivery and offers the opportunity to influence design quality, constructability, governance, and schedule performance across significant project packages. It is well suited to a hands-on design professional seeking greater responsibility within large-scale Saudi Arabian infrastructure programs.

About the Company

Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, infrastructure, program management, and technology solutions for major projects worldwide. In Saudi Arabia, its teams support large development and infrastructure programs through planning, design management, engineering coordination, technical assurance, project controls, and integrated delivery services.