Senior Design Manager - Infrastructure

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 42,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons is seeking a Senior Design Manager for Infrastructure in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. You will direct multidisciplinary design delivery across major programs, ensuring governance, technical assurance, and quality across planning, schematic and construction documentation.

You will lead consultants and internal teams, develop design strategies, and manage interfaces and priorities to meet stakeholder requirements and project objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related technical discipline.
• Minimum 15 years of multidisciplinary design management experience.
• Extensive experience coordinating complex interfaces between disciplines and delivery packages.

Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary design delivery across major programs, districts, precincts, and infrastructure asset portfolios.
• Provide strategic direction for design management, technical assurance, and integrated delivery.
• Maintain end‑to‑end accountability for design quality, consultant performance, and governance compliance.
• Oversee design development from planning through construction documentation stages.
• Mentor design managers, engineers, and technical team members.
• Support value engineering and design optimization initiatives.
• Improve design efficiency while ensuring safety and quality.
• Coordinate resource planning across multiple design packages and consultants.
• Ensure stakeholder requirements are identified and incorporated into deliverables.
• Develop design sequences and phasing plans supporting procurement and construction.

Skills

Multidisciplinary design management

Infrastructure design

Strategic planning

Design governance

Technical assurance

Consultant management

Interface management

Integrated design delivery

Design sequencing

Resource planning

Engineering leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Job description

Senior Design Manager – Infrastructure (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

Job Snapshot:

• Industry: Civil Engineering
• Experience: Minimum 15 years
• Type: Full‑time
• Salary: 42,000 – 58,000 SAR (estimated; confirm with employer)

Role Overview

Senior Design Manager in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a senior civil engineering opportunity for an experienced leader capable of directing multidisciplinary design delivery across major programs, districts, precincts, and infrastructure asset portfolios. Parsons Corporation is hiring a design management professional with strong expertise in technical assurance, design governance, consultant leadership, interface coordination, and integrated project delivery.

Reporting to the Director of Infrastructure Planning and Design, the role carries end‑to‑end responsibility for design strategy and delivery from early planning and concept development through schematic design, detailed design, and construction documentation. The successful candidate will guide multidisciplinary consultants, establish technical priorities, and ensure that all packages meet programme, quality, coordination, and stakeholder requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary design delivery across major programs, districts, precincts, and infrastructure asset portfolios.
• Provide strategic direction for design management, technical assurance, and integrated delivery.
• Maintain end‑to‑end accountability for design quality, consultant performance, and governance compliance.
• Oversee design development from strategic planning and concept design through schematic, detailed, and construction documentation stages.
• Act as a senior technical authority within the infrastructure planning and design team.
• Influence design strategy, technical methodologies, standards, and engineering best practices.
• Coordinate design priorities with development, projects, commercial, planning, and support functions.
• Ensure stakeholder requirements are identified, communicated, and incorporated into design deliverables.
• Lead multidisciplinary consultants and internal design teams.
• Establish clear technical priorities, quality expectations, deliverable requirements, and coordination protocols.
• Develop integrated design delivery programs covering sequencing, phasing, interfaces, approvals, and resource needs.
• Review, challenge, and endorse consultant submissions, drawings, reports, models, specifications, and technical recommendations.
• Confirm that design deliverables satisfy client governance and approval requirements.
• Monitor consultant performance against scope, schedule, quality, coordination, and contractual obligations.
• Define design delivery strategies at project, program, and portfolio levels.
• Develop design sequencing and phasing plans that support procurement and construction priorities.
• Coordinate resource planning across multiple design packages and consultants.
• Manage complex interfaces between engineering disciplines, infrastructure networks, assets, packages, and delivery teams.
• Ensure design assumptions, dependencies, and responsibilities are clearly documented.
• Resolve cross‑discipline conflicts before they affect approvals or construction.
• Lead technical reviews, design coordination meetings, and consultant performance sessions.
• Support value engineering and design optimization initiatives.
• Improve design efficiency while maintaining functionality, technical integrity, safety, and quality.
• Promote practical, constructible, maintainable, and cost‑conscious design solutions.
• Ensure design changes are assessed for technical, schedule, cost, and interface impacts.
• Support governance boards and client approval processes with accurate technical advice.
• Identify design risks and establish appropriate mitigation and escalation measures.
• Embed lessons learned, innovation, and continuous improvement across design teams.
• Develop and promote consistent design management procedures and technical standards.
• Mentor design managers, engineers, and technical team members.
• Perform other duties associated with senior infrastructure design leadership.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum 15 years of multidisciplinary design management experience.
• Strong background supporting large and complex infrastructure or development programs.
• Proven experience acting as a senior technical lead.
• Demonstrated success managing multiple consultants and infrastructure design packages.
• Extensive knowledge of design governance, technical assurance, and approval processes.
• Strong experience coordinating complex interfaces between disciplines, assets, and delivery packages.
• Ability to oversee design from strategic planning through construction documentation.
• Experience defining design strategies, sequencing, phasing, and resource plans.
• Strong understanding of consultant management and performance monitoring.
• Proven ability to review and challenge complex technical submissions.
• Experience supporting client governance and technical approval processes.
• Strong capability in value engineering, design optimization, and constructability.
• Ability to balance technical quality, schedule, cost, stakeholder, and delivery requirements.
• Demonstrated leadership in senior design or engineering management positions.
• Strong communication, presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder‑management abilities.
• Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary and multicultural project teams.
• Excellent analytical, problem‑solving, and decision‑making skills.
• Strong professional judgement, accountability, and client‑service orientation.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Skills Set

• Multidisciplinary design management
• Infrastructure design
• Strategic planning
• Concept design
• Schematic design
• Detailed design
• Construction documentation
• Design governance
• Technical assurance
• Consultant management
• Consultant performance monitoring
• Interface management
• Integrated design delivery
• Design strategy
• Design sequencing
• Design phasing
• Resource planning
• Technical reviews
• Design approvals
• Value engineering
• Design optimization
• Constructability
• Design risk management
• Stakeholder coordination
• Program‑level design management
• Portfolio design management
• Engineering leadership
• Quality assurance
• Technical standards
• Lessons learned
• Continuous improvement
• Team mentoring

Why Join Us

This position offers the opportunity to influence the technical direction and design performance of major infrastructure programs in Riyadh. The role provides senior‑level exposure to portfolio strategy, consultant leadership, design governance, multidisciplinary coordination, and client decision‑making. The successful candidate will have meaningful authority over how complex infrastructure packages are planned, coordinated, reviewed, and delivered. Parsons Corporation offers access to major development programs, experienced engineering teams, advanced design practices, and long‑term professional growth within Saudi Arabia’s expanding civil engineering and infrastructure market.

About the Company

Parsons Corporation is a digitally enabled solutions provider serving civil engineering, defense, intelligence, transportation, and critical infrastructure markets. The company delivers engineering, program management, technical assurance, technology, and infrastructure solutions for complex projects in Saudi Arabia and international markets. Parsons supports professional development, technical innovation, environmental responsibility, workplace flexibility, and long‑term career growth while helping clients deliver resilient infrastructure and future‑ready communities.