Design Manager - Infrastructure Design Delivery

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 25,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons is seeking a Design Manager for Infrastructure Design Delivery in Riyadh. The role focuses on leading multidisciplinary design coordination across complex projects, coordinating consultants and internal teams to ensure aligned design packages, and delivering outputs on time within budget.

Ideal candidates have a strong governance background, experience with design reviews, stage-gate processes, and robust technical records.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary design consultants across infrastructure projects.
• Strong governance, design assurance, and technical records discipline.
• Proven ability to manage design trackers, approvals, and stage-gate processes.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate design consultants and technical teams to maintain alignment with approved briefs and project requirements.
• Monitor milestones, stage-gate progress and deliverables across packages.
• Review design submissions for quality, completeness, coordination, and readiness for approval.
• Maintain design trackers, action logs, and design registers to track status and decisions.
• Identify design risks, interfaces, and dependencies and implement mitigations.
• Support constructability reviews and resolution of design clashes across disciplines.

Skills

Design management

Infrastructure design

Multidisciplinary design coordination

Consultant management

Design review

Technical assurance

Design governance

Stage gate management

Design trackers

Interface management

Risk management

Project governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical discipline

Job description

Design Manager - Infrastructure Design Delivery Job Snapshot

Role: Design Manager - Infrastructure Design Delivery

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Industry: Engineering

Function: Design

Experience: Minimum 10 years

Job Type: Full-time

Position Overview Design Manager - Infrastructure Design Delivery in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is an Engineering opportunity for an experienced Saudi National with strong expertise in multidisciplinary design coordination, consultant management, technical assurance, design governance, and infrastructure project delivery. The role supports the Planning and Design Management function by coordinating design packages, monitoring milestones, resolving technical interfaces, and ensuring project outputs remain aligned with approved briefs, standards, budgets, and delivery programmes.

Job Details

Country: Saudi Arabia

City: Riyadh

Industry: Engineering

Function: Design

Salary: 25000-38000 Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.

Gender: Any

Candidate Nationality: Saudi Arabian

Job Type: Full-time

Role Context

The Design Manager provides day-to-day leadership across multidisciplinary infrastructure design activities, helping project teams move efficiently from early development through formal reviews, approvals, and delivery. Working with senior management, consultants, technical specialists, stakeholders, and delivery teams, the role ensures design information is coordinated, technically complete, and issued in line with programme requirements. Strong management of design risks, interfaces, approvals, and technical records helps prevent downstream construction issues, maintain decision‑making momentum, and protect overall project quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Support Senior Management and the Senior Design Manager with the coordination and assurance of design delivery across all project stages.
• Manage multidisciplinary design activities across assigned projects, packages, and asset scopes.
• Coordinate design consultants and technical teams to maintain alignment with approved briefs and project requirements.
• Review design submissions for technical quality, completeness, coordination, and readiness for approval.
• Monitor consultant deliverables against agreed schedules, milestones, and stage gate requirements.
• Ensure review comments and outstanding actions are addressed within required timelines.
• Support resolution of design clashes between disciplines and project systems.
• Coordinate responses to technical queries affecting design progression.
• Assist teams in resolving constructability concerns before they create delivery or construction constraints.
• Maintain visibility of key design decisions and ensure outcomes are clearly communicated.
• Maintain design trackers covering submissions, comments, approvals, and outstanding requirements.
• Manage action logs and follow up responsibilities assigned during coordination meetings.
• Maintain design registers, approval workflows, and technical records.
• Apply approved design management templates, tools, methodologies, and reporting procedures.
• Monitor compliance with established design management processes.
• Prepare consistent design progress information for management reporting.
• Identify delayed approvals or decisions that could affect programme performance.
• Ensure technical records remain accurate, traceable, and accessible to authorised project teams.
• Coordinate interfaces between engineering disciplines, infrastructure systems, assets, consultants, and delivery teams.
• Identify dependencies between separate design packages and technical scopes.
• Ensure interface responsibilities are clearly assigned and monitored through resolution.
• Support integration of civil, structural, utilities, landscape, architectural, and other relevant disciplines.
• Coordinate information where adjacent assets or infrastructure systems interact.
• Help resolve inconsistencies between consultant submissions and wider project requirements.
• Promote coordinated solutions that support constructability and efficient delivery.
• Identify design-related risks, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies.
• Maintain design risk information and track mitigation actions.
• Highlight unresolved technical issues that could create programme, cost, quality, or delivery impacts.
• Coordinate with consultants and internal stakeholders to develop practical mitigation measures.
• Monitor implementation of agreed technical actions.
• Escalate material design issues to senior management when intervention is required.
• Support timely decisions by providing clear information on options, risks, and consequences.
• Liaise with internal stakeholders, support functions, consultants, and project teams.
• Coordinate technical reviews and ensure required stakeholders provide input within agreed timelines.
• Follow up approvals and outstanding decisions required to maintain programme momentum.
• Facilitate effective communication between technical disciplines and project leadership.
• Participate in design coordination meetings and ensure agreed actions are recorded and tracked.
• Maintain consistent communication of design information across affected teams.
• Support alignment between project objectives and consultant deliverables.
• Monitor design progress against approved programmes and milestone dates.
• Identify schedule risks resulting from delayed submissions, unresolved interfaces, or pending decisions.
• Provide accurate design status information for project reporting.
• Support the integration of design progress with wider programme, risk, and delivery controls.
• Assist senior management in reviewing performance trends and areas requiring corrective action.
• Maintain clear records of submission status, stage gate completion, and approval progress.

Ideal Profile

The position is suited to an experienced Saudi design professional with a strong engineering background and proven ability to coordinate multidisciplinary consultants on complex infrastructure projects.

• Bachelor 's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in design coordination or design management roles.
• Saudi National as required for the position.
• Demonstrated experience working with multidisciplinary design consultants.
• Strong understanding of design development stages and coordination requirements.
• Experience reviewing technical design submissions for quality and completeness.
• Good understanding of multidisciplinary infrastructure interfaces.
• Ability to manage design trackers, action logs, registers, and approval workflows.
• Strong organisational capability for managing multiple packages and deadlines.
• Effective stakeholder coordination skills.
• Strong written and spoken English communication.
• Ability to identify technical risks and support practical mitigation strategies.
• Comfortable working within structured design governance and reporting environments.
• Capable of coordinating consultants, support functions, and multidisciplinary project teams.

Skills Set

• Design management
• Infrastructure design
• Multidisciplinary design coordination
• Consultant management
• Design review
• Technical assurance
• Design quality control
• Design submissions
• Design approvals
• Stage gate management
• Design trackers
• Action logs
• Design registers
• Approval workflows
• Technical records
• Interface management
• Design clash resolution
• Technical query coordination
• Constructability review
• Design risk management
• Design dependencies
• Design constraints
• Engineering coordination
• Consultant deliverables
• Project governance
• Design reporting
• Stakeholder coordination
• Technical communication
• Design programme monitoring
• Design standards
• Project procedures
• Cross-disciplinary coordination
• Infrastructure interfaces
• Technical documentation
• Design progress tracking

Why Join Us

This opportunity provides significant responsibility within Riyadh 's expanding Engineering sector and offers exposure to complex infrastructure design packages, multidisciplinary consultant coordination, technical governance, project controls, and stakeholder management. The role is well positioned for professionals seeking progression toward Senior Design Manager, Design Director, Technical Director, or broader infrastructure leadership responsibilities while contributing to major development programmes in Saudi Arabia.

About the Company

Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, infrastructure, construction management, program management, project controls, and technology services across major international developments. Its Saudi Arabia teams support complex infrastructure and urban development programmes where disciplined design management, multidisciplinary coordination, technical assurance, and structured project delivery are essential to successful outcomes.