Infrastructure Design Lead for Multidisciplinary Projects

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons Corporation in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, seeks a Technical Design Manager – Infrastructure to lead multidisciplinary design packages for major infrastructure and landscape projects. The role requires senior-level oversight of technical documentation, design reviews, tender packages, staffing plans, and digital engineering workflows.

You will coordinate internal teams with clients and authorities, ensure compliance with codes and standards, mentor staff, and drive value engineering and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering.
• 20+ years of professional engineering and design experience.
• 10+ years in technical coordination for site infrastructure and landscape.
• Proven success leading multidisciplinary design teams on major developments.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and negotiation abilities.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate multidisciplinary design deliverables across multiple concurrent projects.
• Oversee the preparation of drawings, calculations, reports, specifications, schedules, and tender packages.
• Develop and implement resource plans in coordination with project managers and discipline leaders.
• Review discipline staffing budgets, resource forecasts, and assignment schedules.
• Maintain suitable staffing levels, including temporary personnel when project requirements increase.
• Monitor design quality, productivity, and progress against approved schedules and delivery targets.
• Ensure technical production requirements and client expectations are consistently achieved.
• Establish discipline standards, procedures, technical manuals, and quality-control processes.
• Recommend improvements to departmental workflows and design management procedures.
• Support recruitment, technical interviews, candidate assessments, and employee selection.
• Conduct performance evaluations and provide coaching, counselling, and corrective guidance when required.
• Ensure new employees receive appropriate orientation on company policies, procedures, systems, and quality expectations.
• Manage discipline activities within approved project and overhead budgets.
• Participate in quality improvement initiatives and technical committees.
• Motivate, mentor, and develop assigned design personnel.
• Lead and participate in multidisciplinary design reviews.
• Facilitate value engineering and constructability workshops.
• Attend technical, design, safety, and project coordination meetings.
• Verify that designs comply with relevant codes, regulations, standards, and client requirements.
• Monitor team performance against cost, schedule, quality, and resource metrics.
• Coordinate with internal disciplines, external consultants, contractors, clients, and authorities.
• Ensure civil, structural, architectural, landscape, mechanical, and electrical designs are properly integrated.
• Resolve technical issues arising during design development.
• Identify critical design risks and recommend practical mitigation measures.
• Promote digital engineering, BIM coordination, structured document control, and quality assurance practices.
• Support knowledge sharing and the development of standardized technical procedures.
• Attend all required design meetings and contribute coordinated technical solutions.
• Review and validate meeting minutes, technical decisions, action items, and agreed responsibilities.
• Present proposed solutions across relevant disciplines to confirm alignment and integration.
• Maintain clear communication with project stakeholders and obtain the information required for timely design completion.
• Support the integration of design progress with project cost, schedule, risk, and change‑control processes.
• Perform other responsibilities associated with technical design management.

Skills

Leadership

Coordination

BIM coordination

Communication

Project controls

Staffing planning

Problem solving

English fluency

Education

Bachelors in civil engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

Revit

BIM 360

Navisworks

Document control systems

Job description

Parsons Corporation in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, seeks a Technical Design Manager – Infrastructure to lead multidisciplinary design packages for major infrastructure and landscape projects. The role requires senior-level oversight of technical documentation, design reviews, tender packages, staffing plans, and digital engineering workflows.

You will coordinate internal teams with clients and authorities, ensure compliance with codes and standards, mentor staff, and drive value engineering and