Infrastructure Design Manager: Multidisciplinary Coordination

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 335,000 - 502,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons Corporation leads infrastructure planning and design delivery in Saudi Arabia, coordinating multidisciplinary design teams across complex packages to ensure robust, integrated infrastructure solutions. The Design Manager role focuses on controlling interfaces, consultants, approvals, and technical coordination while driving design quality and schedule performance on major programs in Riyadh.

The position requires a hands-on leader with senior design oversight, risk management, and a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a closely related technical discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in design coordination or design management roles.
• Strong understanding of multidisciplinary design development and coordination processes.
• Practical experience managing consultants and technical teams across complex projects.
• Familiarity with design stages from concept through detailed design and approval.
• Demonstrated ability to review submissions for technical completeness and cross-disciplinary coordination.
• Experience resolving design clashes, interfaces, and constructability concerns.
• Strong understanding of design governance, stage gates, approvals, and technical review workflows.
• Experience maintaining design trackers, action logs, technical registers, and approval records.
• Able to monitor several concurrent design workstreams against defined milestones.
• Strong organizational skills with disciplined follow-up of outstanding actions.
• Effective stakeholder coordination across consultants, project management, and technical teams.
• Able to communicate technical issues clearly to both specialist and non-specialist stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving capability and a practical approach to design resolution.
• Comfortable working in a hands-on design management environment with multiple priorities.
• Experience on infrastructure, transportation, utilities, or major development programs is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Support senior management and the Senior Design Manager with day-to-day control of multidisciplinary design delivery.
• Coordinate consultants, technical specialists, and internal project teams across assigned infrastructure packages.
• Ensure design outputs comply with approved briefs, project standards, technical requirements, budgets, and delivery programs.
• Review design submissions for completeness, coordination, technical quality, and readiness for formal approval.
• Identify incomplete, conflicting, or non-compliant design information before it affects downstream activities.
• Monitor design development across concept, preliminary, detailed, and subsequent project stages.
• Coordinate cross-disciplinary reviews to ensure civil, structural, utilities, transport, landscape, architectural, and other relevant systems remain integrated.
• Resolve design clashes and interface conflicts involving different disciplines, systems, assets, or packages.
• Coordinate responses to technical queries and ensure issues are progressed to clear and documented resolution.
• Support constructability reviews and identify design conditions that could create construction, access, sequencing, or operational difficulties.
• Maintain design trackers, submission registers, approval logs, action lists, technical records, and decision histories.
• Monitor consultant responses and ensure outstanding design actions are closed within agreed timeframes.
• Apply standardized design management procedures, templates, review workflows, and reporting methodologies.
• Track design progress against approved schedules, key milestones, and stage gate requirements.
• Highlight delayed submissions, unresolved technical issues, and approval risks to management.
• Coordinate dependencies between infrastructure systems, consultants, project teams, and external stakeholders.
• Manage design interfaces between separate packages to avoid gaps, duplication, or incompatible assumptions.
• Identify design assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and technical risks affecting delivery.
• Maintain visibility of design-related risks and support implementation of mitigation actions.
• Coordinate internal technical reviews and consolidate comments before issuing formal responses.
• Liaise with project teams and support functions to secure timely reviews, approvals, and decisions.
• Maintain clear communication between design consultants, management, stakeholders, and delivery teams.
• Support preparation of design status reports and management updates.
• Participate in design workshops, coordination meetings, technical reviews, and stage gate discussions.
• Ensure agreed design decisions are documented and communicated consistently.
• Monitor consultant performance against scope, schedule, and required quality standards.
• Escalate persistent design coordination issues that threaten project milestones or technical outcomes.
• Support value-focused design discussions where alternative approaches may improve delivery efficiency.
• Promote consistent information management and traceability across design documentation.
• Help maintain alignment between approved design intent and evolving project requirements.

Skills

Design management

Multidisciplinary design coordination

Infrastructure design

Design assurance

Design review

Consultant management

Technical coordination

Design submissions

Stage gate management

Design governance

Design trackers

Approval workflows

Technical registers

Clash resolution

Constructability review

Design risk management

Schedule coordination

Stakeholder coordination

Design reporting

Design documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

Parsons Corporation leads infrastructure planning and design delivery in Saudi Arabia, coordinating multidisciplinary design teams across complex packages to ensure robust, integrated infrastructure solutions. The Design Manager role focuses on controlling interfaces, consultants, approvals, and technical coordination while driving design quality and schedule performance on major programs in Riyadh.

The position requires a hands-on leader with senior design oversight, risk management, and a