Design Manager - Infrastructure Planning

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons Corporation is seeking a Design Manager for Infrastructure Planning in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role focuses on coordinating multidisciplinary infrastructure design, ensuring technical quality, governance, and timely delivery across major projects.

Ideal candidate has at least 10 years in design coordination, with strong leadership, stakeholder management, and design submissions reviews. Full-time on-site position in Riyadh with comprehensive project delivery responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in design coordination or design management roles.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate design consultants and internal technical teams to maintain integrated design outputs.
• Review design submissions for completeness, technical quality, and alignment with project requirements.
• Monitor design packages before formal approval and identify gaps for clarification or correction.
• Maintain design trackers, action logs, and approval records.
• Identify design risks and implement practical mitigation measures.
• Ensure design information is distributed accurately to stakeholders.

Skills

Design management

Infrastructure design

Multidisciplinary coordination

Design governance

Consultant management

Technical coordination

Design reviews

Design submissions

Risk management

Stakeholder coordination

Project delivery support

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

Job Snapshot

Role: Design Manager - Infrastructure Planning

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Industry: Civil Engineering

Function: Project Management

Experience: Minimum 10 years

Job Type: Full-time

Design Manager - Infrastructure Planning in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a Civil Engineering opportunity focused on multidisciplinary design coordination, technical assurance, consultant management, design governance, and delivery control across major infrastructure projects. Parsons Corporation is hiring an experienced design management professional to coordinate consultants, monitor design submissions, resolve technical interfaces, manage risks and approvals, and ensure design packages are delivered in accordance with project briefs, standards, budgets, and agreed programs.

Country: Saudi Arabia

City: Riyadh

Industry: Civil Engineering

Function: Project Management

Salary: 28000-42000 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 work within the Planning and Design Management function, supporting the coordinated delivery of multidisciplinary infrastructure design across assigned projects, packages, or asset scopes. The role will act as a central point of coordination between design consultants, internal technical teams, support functions, stakeholders, and delivery teams. The position will help maintain design quality, consistency, technical integration, and schedule performance throughout project development. By tracking submissions, resolving interfaces, managing approvals, and identifying design risks early, the Design Manager will support more predictable project delivery and reduce delays caused by incomplete or conflicting design information.

Key Responsibilities

• Support senior management and the Senior Design Manager in coordinating design delivery across all project stages.


• Manage multidisciplinary design activities across assigned infrastructure packages and asset scopes.


• Coordinate design consultants and technical teams to maintain integrated and compliant design outputs.


• Review design submissions for completeness, technical quality, coordination, and alignment with approved project requirements.


• Monitor design packages before formal approval and identify gaps requiring clarification or correction.


• Coordinate the timely review of drawings, reports, specifications, calculations, and other technical deliverables.


• Support resolution of design clashes and cross-disciplinary coordination issues.


• Track technical queries and ensure responsible parties provide timely responses.


• Identify constructability concerns during design development and coordinate practical resolutions.


• Maintain design trackers, action logs, registers, review comments, and approval records.


• Manage design workflows and ensure submissions progress through defined review and approval stages.


• Apply standardized design management procedures, templates, tools, and reporting methods.


• Monitor design progress against milestones, schedules, stage gates, and agreed delivery dates.


• Highlight design delays, incomplete submissions, or approval bottlenecks that may affect project delivery.


• Coordinate interfaces between civil, structural, architectural, utilities, mechanical, electrical, ICT, and other disciplines as applicable.


• Ensure interfaces between infrastructure systems and individual assets are clearly defined and coordinated.


• Support integration between design consultants, project teams, construction stakeholders, and specialist advisors.


• Identify design assumptions, dependencies, constraints, and technical risks.


• Maintain design risk registers and support development of practical mitigation measures.


• Escalate significant technical or schedule risks to senior management when required.


• Liaise with internal stakeholders to obtain timely design reviews and technical decisions.


• Coordinate with project support functions to maintain alignment between design, cost, schedule, and delivery requirements.


• Support communication between consultants, engineering teams, and project leadership.


• Ensure design information is distributed accurately and consistently to relevant stakeholders.


• Participate in design coordination meetings, technical workshops, and project review sessions.


• Record decisions, responsibilities, and required actions arising from design meetings.


• Follow up outstanding actions to ensure timely closure.


• Support design assurance activities throughout concept, preliminary, detailed, and construction design stages.


• Monitor consultant compliance with agreed scopes of work and deliverable requirements.


• Review design changes and assess potential effects on coordination, schedule, cost, and downstream activities.


• Support reporting on design progress, outstanding issues, approvals, and risks.


• Maintain accurate technical records to support governance, audits, and future project reference.


• Contribute to continuous improvement in design management procedures and project coordination practices.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related discipline.


• Minimum 10 years of experience in design coordination or design management roles.


• Proven experience working with multidisciplinary design consultants.


• Good understanding of design development stages and technical coordination requirements.


• Experience reviewing design submissions for quality, completeness, and interdisciplinary integration.


• Ability to coordinate consultants, technical teams, project stakeholders, and delivery functions.


• Strong understanding of infrastructure design interfaces and project delivery requirements.


• Experience maintaining design trackers, approval registers, action logs, and technical records.


• Ability to identify design risks, dependencies, assumptions, and constraints.


• Strong organizational capability for managing multiple design packages and deadlines.


• Good understanding of design governance, review workflows, and approval processes.


• Ability to support constructability reviews and technical issue resolution.


• Strong written and verbal communication skills.


• Confident stakeholder coordination capability across technical and non-technical teams.


• Ability to maintain accurate and consistent project information.


• Strong attention to detail when reviewing design submissions and technical records.


• Ability to work effectively within a structured Planning and Design Management environment.

Skills Set

• Design management


• Infrastructure design


• Multidisciplinary design coordination


• Design assurance


• Consultant management


• Design review


• Design submissions


• Technical coordination


• Design governance


• Design trackers


• Action logs


• Approval workflows


• Design registers


• Stage gate management


• Design scheduling


• Design progress monitoring


• Technical queries


• Constructability review


• Design clash resolution


• Interface management


• Design risk management


• Design dependencies


• Design constraints


• Technical records


• Design approvals


• Engineering coordination


• Infrastructure planning


• Project Management


• Civil engineering coordination


• Structural coordination


• Utility coordination


• Architectural coordination


• Mechanical coordination


• Electrical coordination


• ICT coordination


• Consultant scopes


• Technical reporting


• Stakeholder coordination


• Design documentation


• Design change management


• Project governance


• Design quality control


• Multidisciplinary integration


• Technical workshops


• Design meeting coordination


• Project delivery support

Why Join Us

This role offers the opportunity to manage multidisciplinary design delivery across complex infrastructure projects in Riyadh, where effective coordination directly influences project quality, constructability, schedule performance, and successful downstream delivery. For an experienced design professional, the position provides a strong platform to expand design management capability while gaining broader exposure to infrastructure planning, consultant coordination, technical governance, and project leadership. The role can support progression toward senior design management and infrastructure leadership positions within major development programs.

About the Company

Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, infrastructure, planning, construction management, technology, and program delivery solutions for major projects worldwide. Its multidisciplinary teams support complex infrastructure developments through coordinated design management, technical assurance, consultant integration, and structured project delivery.