Design Manager - Multidisciplinary Projects

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

Job summary

Parsons is seeking a Design Manager for multidisciplinary projects in Riyadh. The role focuses on coordinating integrated design across infrastructure packages, consultants, and stakeholders, ensuring designs align with briefs, standards, budgets, and schedules.

The ideal candidate holds a bachelor's degree in engineering, with at least 10 years in design coordination or related roles, delivering stage-gate approvals and managing design interfaces across multiple disciplines.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Manage multidisciplinary design coordination across infrastructure projects and asset scopes.
• Coordinate consultant teams to maintain alignment between disciplines and project requirements.
• Review consultant submissions for quality, completeness, and coordination before approvals.
• Track design submissions from issue to approval across stage-gate milestones.
• Maintain design trackers, comment registers, and approval records.

Skills

Design management

Multidisciplinary design

Design coordination

Infrastructure design

Consultant coordination

Stage-gate deliverables

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

Design Manager - Multidisciplinary Projects Job Snapshot Role: Design Manager - Multidisciplinary Projects Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Industry: Construction Function: Design Experience: Minimum 10 years Job Type: Full-time

Position Overview Design Manager - Multidisciplinary Projects in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a Construction opportunity responsible for coordinating integrated design delivery across infrastructure packages, technical disciplines, consultants, and project stakeholders. Parsons is hiring an experienced design management professional to oversee design submissions, technical interfaces, stage-gate deliverables, approvals, risks, and coordination activities while ensuring project designs remain aligned with approved briefs, standards, budgets, schedules, and delivery 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 support the Planning and Design Management function by controlling the flow and coordination of multidisciplinary design information across assigned projects, packages, or asset scopes. The role will work closely with senior design leadership to ensure consultants and technical teams deliver coordinated, complete, and review-ready design outputs at each project stage. A central responsibility will be maintaining visibility over interfaces, design actions, approval dependencies, technical risks, and unresolved issues. Effective coordination at this level will help reduce redesign, prevent conflicting technical requirements, protect project milestones, and improve the quality of information released to downstream delivery teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage multidisciplinary design coordination across assigned infrastructure projects, packages, and asset scopes.
• Support senior management and the Senior Design Manager with daily design delivery activities.
• Coordinate consultant teams to maintain alignment between technical disciplines and project requirements.
• Review consultant submissions before formal approval for quality, completeness, consistency, and coordination.
• Verify design deliverables against approved briefs, standards, scope requirements, and project objectives.
• Monitor design development through concept, intermediate, detailed, and relevant stage-gate milestones.
• Track consultant performance against scheduled submission and review dates.
• Maintain awareness of design activities that may affect procurement, construction, or project delivery.
• Coordinate interfaces between engineering disciplines, infrastructure systems, assets, and delivery packages.
• Identify technical gaps and cross-disciplinary conflicts before they affect later project stages.
• Support resolution of design clashes between different consultant and discipline outputs.
• Coordinate technical responses to design queries, clarification requests, and unresolved design comments.
• Facilitate constructability discussions where proposed designs may create delivery constraints.
• Engage relevant technical specialists when additional design assurance is required.
• Maintain design trackers, registers, action logs, comment schedules, and approval records.
• Ensure actions arising from technical reviews are assigned to responsible parties and tracked through closure.
• Apply approved design management templates, processes, tools, and reporting practices.
• Maintain reliable records of design decisions and significant technical agreements.
• Monitor approval workflows to identify delayed reviews or outstanding responses.
• Coordinate internal and external review cycles to support timely project decisions.
• Track design submissions from initial issue through comments, revision, resubmission, and approval.
• Identify risks associated with incomplete information, late design changes, unresolved interfaces, or consultant delays.
• Maintain visibility over design assumptions, dependencies, and constraints.
• Support mitigation planning for design-related risks affecting cost, schedule, quality, or constructability.
• Escalate significant design concerns when resolution exceeds assigned authority.
• Work with Planning and Project Controls teams to align design milestones with the broader delivery program.
• Provide current design status information for progress reporting and management reviews.
• Coordinate with stakeholders whose requirements influence infrastructure design packages.
• Liaise with support functions to obtain timely technical input and approvals.
• Ensure design consultants receive clear consolidated comments rather than conflicting instructions.
• Coordinate meetings involving designers, project teams, stakeholders, and technical specialists.
• Prepare and maintain design coordination actions arising from workshops and review sessions.
• Support the integration of design changes across affected packages and disciplines.
• Confirm approved revisions are reflected in subsequent consultant deliverables.
• Coordinate design interfaces where one asset or infrastructure system depends on another.
• Support technical alignment between design teams and project delivery personnel.
• Promote consistent use of approved design management procedures across assigned scopes.
• Assist with preparation of weekly and monthly design progress information.
• Maintain accurate communication of current design status, approvals, risks, and outstanding actions.
• Support senior design leadership in improving coordination efficiency and consultant accountability.

Ideal Profile

The role 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 coordination, or multidisciplinary project delivery. Strong experience working with multiple design consultants is required, particularly where several disciplines must progress simultaneously through formal review and approval stages. The successful candidate should understand how design develops from early concepts into coordinated technical deliverables suitable for procurement and construction. Candidates should be able to review design submissions for completeness, integration, consistency, and alignment with project requirements. Experience managing design registers, comment logs, approval workflows, technical actions, and consultant deliverables is important. A practical understanding of multidisciplinary interfaces, design risk, constructability, technical dependencies, and stage-gate requirements will strengthen suitability. The role requires strong organizational capability and the ability to manage multiple concurrent deliverables without losing visibility over deadlines or unresolved actions. Effective communication and stakeholder coordination skills are essential for working across consultants, project teams, support functions, and senior management.

Skills Set

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

Why Join Us

Complex infrastructure projects require more than strong individual disciplines; they depend on coordinated design decisions that connect engineering systems, consultants, project requirements, and delivery milestones. This Riyadh position provides direct involvement in that integration process across significant infrastructure scopes. The role offers valuable progression for an experienced design professional seeking broader responsibility in multidisciplinary coordination, consultant management, design governance, technical assurance, and large-scale project delivery within Saudi Arabia 's expanding infrastructure market.

About the Company

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