Design Manager - Infrastructure Delivery

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 246,000 - 379,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons is hiring a Design Manager - Infrastructure Delivery in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role focuses on coordinating multidisciplinary design across infrastructure projects, ensuring outputs meet briefs, standards, budgets, and schedules.

The candidate will lead consultants and internal teams, manage design approvals, address clashes, and maintain governance through design trackers and comment workflows to support timely delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of professional design coordination/management experience.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary design consultants and exchanges across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate multidisciplinary design delivery across infrastructure projects and packages.
• Review submissions for completeness, quality, coordination, and compliance with requirements.
• Verify design outputs align with briefs, standards, budgets and schedules.
• Monitor consultant performance against milestones and manage stage-gate approvals.
• Maintain design trackers, logs, and approval workflows; ensure timely design responses.

Skills

Design management

Design coordination

Infrastructure design

Multidisciplinary design

Consultant management

Technical coordination

Design governance

Design reviews

Stage-gate reviews

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

Design Manager - Infrastructure Delivery Job Snapshot

Role: Design Manager - Infrastructure Delivery

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Industry: Construction

Function: Design

Experience: Minimum 10 years

Job Type: Full-time

Position Overview Design Manager - Infrastructure Delivery in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a Construction opportunity focused on multidisciplinary design management, consultant coordination, technical assurance, design governance, and integrated infrastructure delivery across complex project packages and asset scopes. Parsons is hiring an experienced design professional to coordinate consultants, monitor design submissions, resolve technical interfaces, control approvals, and ensure design outputs meet project briefs, standards, budgets, schedules, and stage-gate requirements.

Job Details

Country: Saudi Arabia

City: Riyadh

Industry: Construction

Function: Design

Salary: 22000-34000 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, supporting senior leadership in the controlled delivery of multidisciplinary infrastructure design across assigned projects, packages, and asset scopes. The role will connect design consultants, technical disciplines, project teams, stakeholders, and delivery functions so information moves through review and approval processes without losing coordination, quality, or schedule alignment. Strong design governance will be essential to identifying clashes, technical gaps, dependencies, and approval risks before they affect downstream procurement or construction.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate multidisciplinary design delivery across assigned infrastructure projects and packages.
• Support senior management and the Senior Design Manager with day-to-day design coordination and assurance activities.
• Coordinate design consultants and internal technical teams throughout project development.
• Review design submissions for completeness, quality, coordination, and compliance with project requirements.
• Verify alignment of design outputs with approved briefs, technical standards, budgets, and delivery programs.
• Monitor consultant performance against agreed design milestones and submission dates.
• Coordinate design progress through applicable stage-gate and approval processes.
• Identify design gaps, inconsistencies, and missing information before submissions proceed for approval.
• Support resolution of multidisciplinary design clashes and technical coordination issues.
• Coordinate responses to design-related Technical Queries and clarification requests.
• Work with consultants and project teams to resolve constructability issues identified during design development.
• Coordinate interfaces between Civil, Structural, Architectural, MEP, Utilities, Mobility, Landscape, and other relevant disciplines.
• Ensure technical interfaces between infrastructure systems and asset packages are clearly identified and managed.
• Maintain visibility of dependencies between consultants, disciplines, stakeholders, and delivery teams.
• Support integration of design requirements across multiple assets and infrastructure packages.
• Maintain design trackers, action logs, registers, comment schedules, and approval workflows.
• Keep accurate technical records to support project governance and auditability.
• Apply standardized design management templates, methodologies, and reporting procedures.
• Monitor design status against approved schedules and planned deliverables.
• Coordinate design review periods and ensure comments are issued within required timelines.
• Track consultant responses to review comments through closure.
• Maintain clear records of technical decisions, approvals, outstanding actions, and unresolved issues.
• Identify design-related risks, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies.
• Support development and implementation of mitigation actions for emerging design risks.
• Escalate unresolved technical or schedule concerns to senior design leadership when appropriate.
• Liaise with Planning and Project Controls teams where design progress may affect project milestones.
• Support timely decision-making by ensuring relevant technical information is available to stakeholders.
• Coordinate internal reviews with engineering, delivery, construction, and support functions.
• Facilitate design coordination meetings, technical workshops, and progress reviews.
• Prepare design status information for weekly and monthly reporting.
• Support management of approval workflows for consultant and technical submissions.
• Ensure design revisions are clearly communicated to all affected disciplines and project teams.
• Coordinate changes arising from design reviews, stakeholder comments, or technical requirements.
• Monitor whether approved changes have been incorporated into subsequent design deliverables.
• Support constructability reviews and coordination with delivery teams before construction release.
• Promote consistency in design management practices across assigned projects.
• Ensure current design information is distributed accurately and in a controlled manner.
• Maintain effective communication between consultants, stakeholders, and project teams.
• Support senior design leadership with technical reporting, coordination priorities, and design assurance recommendations.

Ideal Profile

The position requires a bachelor 's degree in Engineering or another relevant technical discipline. Candidates should have at least 10 years of professional experience in design coordination, design management, engineering management, or multidisciplinary project delivery. The successful candidate should have experience working with multidisciplinary design consultants and coordinating outputs across several technical disciplines. A good understanding of design development stages, technical review requirements, approval processes, and stage-gate governance is essential. Candidates should be able to assess design submissions for coordination, completeness, technical consistency, and compliance with project requirements. Experience managing design trackers, review comments, approval workflows, technical actions, risks, and dependencies will be valuable. The role requires an understanding of how design decisions affect constructability, procurement, project controls, cost, and downstream delivery. Strong organizational skills are important because the position will manage multiple submissions, actions, interfaces, and deadlines simultaneously. The successful candidate should demonstrate strong communication, stakeholder coordination, technical judgment, and the ability to work effectively with consultants and multidisciplinary project teams.

Skills Set

• Design management
• Design coordination
• Infrastructure design
• Multidisciplinary design
• Design consultants
• Technical coordination
• Design assurance
• Design governance
• Design reviews
• Design submissions
• Design development
• Stage-gate reviews
• Technical approvals
• Approval workflows
• Design trackers
• Action logs
• Design registers
• Comment tracking
• Technical records
• Interface management
• Civil coordination
• Structural coordination
• Architectural coordination
• MEP coordination
• Utilities coordination
• Infrastructure interfaces
• Technical Queries
• Design clarifications
• Constructability reviews
• Design clashes
• Clash resolution
• Design risks
• Design assumptions
• Design constraints
• Design dependencies
• Consultant management
• Consultant performance
• Design schedules
• Milestone tracking
• Project controls coordination
• Technical workshops
• Stakeholder coordination
• Design reporting
• Design change management
• Technical decision tracking
• Document coordination
• Quality reviews
• Integrated design delivery

Why Join Us

Large infrastructure programs depend on disciplined design coordination long before construction begins. This Riyadh role provides the opportunity to influence how multidisciplinary packages are integrated, reviewed, approved, and released while working across consultants, engineering teams, delivery functions, and project controls. The position offers valuable exposure to complex infrastructure design governance and provides a strong platform for progression into senior design management, technical leadership, and broader program delivery responsibilities.

About the Company

Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, program management, construction management, and infrastructure services across major developments. In Saudi Arabia, its teams support complex programs through expertise in planning, design management, multidisciplinary engineering, project controls, construction coordination, and technical delivery.