Senior Interface Lead - Airport Integration

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

Job summary

Parsons Corporation is seeking a Senior Interface Lead - Airport Integration in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to govern interfaces across airport buildings, airfield infrastructure, utilities, and systems. The role centers on coordinating multidisciplinary designs, maintaining interface registers, resolving scope gaps, and ensuring critical connections are closed before testing, readiness, and handover.

The candidate will bring 15+ years in interface management, engineering coordination, or large-scale

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Master's degree in Engineering Management or Project Management is advantageous.
• Minimum 15 years of experience in interface management, engineering coordination, construction delivery, or project integration.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the airport-program interface-management strategy.
• Establish procedures, workflows, tools, reporting methods, and escalation routes.
• Prepare and maintain the Interface Management Plan.
• Define interface categories, responsibilities, deliverables, and closure requirements.
• Lead interface engineers and guide project stakeholders in consistent working practices.
• Ensure interfaces are identified, recorded, assigned, tracked, and formally closed.
• Coordinate civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, and electrical interfaces.
• Support BIM-based coordination and digital engineering workflows.
• Lead interface-risk assessments and support constructability reviews.
• Prepare meeting records, action trackers, technical agreements, and formal reports.

Skills

Interface management

Systems integration

Multidisciplinary coordination

Stakeholder management

BIM coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related discipline

Master's degree in Engineering Management or Project Management (advantageous)

Tools

Primavera P6

Aconex

Unifier

Job description

Senior Interface Lead - Airport Integration Job Snapshot Role: Senior Interface Lead - Airport Integration Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Industry: Airlines/Aviation Function: Systems Implementation/Integration Experience: Minimum 15 years Job Type: Full-time Position Overview Parsons is hiring a Senior Interface Lead - Airport Integration in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for a major development within the Airlines/Aviation industry. The lead will establish and govern the interface-management strategy connecting airport buildings, airfield infrastructure, utilities, transport links, technology, security, and operational systems. This senior role requires extensive experience coordinating multidisciplinary designs, contractors, consultants, and external authorities. The successful candidate will maintain interface registers, resolve scope gaps and technical conflicts, and ensure critical connections are formally closed before testing, operational readiness, and handover.

Country: Saudi Arabia City: Riyadh Industry: Airlines/Aviation Function: Systems Implementation/Integration Salary: 30000-45000 SAR per month Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in Riyadh; please confirm the final offer with the employer. Gender: Any Candidate Nationality: Any Job Type: Full-time Role Context Airport developments depend on hundreds of physical, technical, contractual, and operational interfaces. A missed connection between buildings, utilities, airfield systems, communications, security, or airport operations can create design conflicts, construction delays, additional cost, and commissioning failures. The Senior Interface Lead will provide a single governance structure for these dependencies. Clear ownership, disciplined tracking, and early resolution will help protect project milestones and ensure that landside, airside, and operational assets function as one integrated airport.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the airport-program interface-management strategy.
• Establish procedures, workflows, tools, reporting methods, and escalation routes.
• Prepare and maintain the Interface Management Plan.
• Define interface categories, responsibilities, deliverables, and closure requirements.
• Lead interface engineers and guide project stakeholders in consistent working practices.
• Ensure interfaces are identified, recorded, assigned, tracked, and formally closed.
• Coordinate civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, and electrical interfaces.
• Manage connections involving ICT, ELV, airfield systems, airfield ground lighting, utilities, security, and specialist airport technology.
• Identify design conflicts, scope gaps, unclear responsibilities, and technical dependencies.
• Facilitate workshops to resolve complex multidisciplinary interface matters.
• Verify alignment of design solutions across disciplines and delivery packages.
• Manage interfaces involving terminals, concourses, runways, taxiways, aircraft stands, aprons, and cargo facilities.
• Coordinate roads, external infrastructure, utility networks, and airport operational systems.
• Ensure effective integration between airside and landside assets.
• Align buildings, infrastructure, technology, and operations in preparation for airport opening.
• Act as the central interface contact for the client and airport operator.
• Coordinate delivery partners, consultants, contractors, subcontractors, utility providers, suppliers, and authorities.
• Establish effective communication and information-exchange channels.
• Lead interface-coordination meetings and monitor resulting actions.
• Develop and maintain interface registers, matrices, responsibility charts, and trackers.
• Record requirements, ownership, target dates, decisions, dependencies, and closure status.
• Identify critical interfaces affecting schedule, cost, quality, safety, or operational readiness.
• Prepare dashboards and status reports for project leadership.
• Escalate unresolved risks with clear impact assessments and mitigation recommendations.
• Review design submissions from an interface and integration perspective.
• Confirm that contractor activities are coordinated across shared work areas and systems.
• Support resolution of site interfaces, requests for information, technical queries, and design changes.
• Coordinate temporary works, construction sequencing, logistics, access, and shared facilities.
• Support BIM-based coordination and digital engineering workflows.
• Review federated models and coordinate multidisciplinary clash detection.
• Promote accurate interface information within common data environments and project information systems.
• Lead interface-risk assessments and support constructability reviews.
• Capture lessons learned and improve interface-management practices.
• Prepare meeting records, action trackers, technical agreements, and formal reports.
• Maintain auditable records of decisions, approvals, and interface closure evidence.
• Support testing, commissioning, operational-readiness, and handover documentation.
• Verify formal closure of all critical interfaces before project completion.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor 's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Master 's degree in Engineering Management or Project Management is advantageous.
• Minimum 15 years of experience in interface management, engineering coordination, construction delivery, or project integration.
• Proven involvement in major airport, aviation, transportation, or large-scale infrastructure programs.
• Extensive experience managing multidisciplinary interfaces across design and construction.
• Background within delivery-partner, project-management consultancy, EPC, or client-side organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple contractors, consultants, suppliers, and stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of interface-management principles, governance, and recognized practices.
• Understanding of airport systems, facilities, infrastructure, and operational requirements.
• Experience developing interface registers, matrices, dashboards, and tracking tools.
• Familiarity with BIM coordination, digital engineering, and common data environments.
• Strong negotiation, facilitation, communication, and conflict-resolution capabilities.
• Excellent analytical judgement and the ability to manage several complex workstreams.
• Professional Engineer, Chartered Engineer, or equivalent registration is preferred.
• International airport mega-project or greenfield-development experience would be beneficial.
• Knowledge of ICAO, FAA, IATA, and airport operational requirements is desirable.
• Experience under FIDIC or a similar international contract framework is advantageous.
• Familiarity with Design-Build, EPC, project-management consultancy, and delivery-partner models is preferred.

Skills Set

• Airport interface management
• Systems integration
• Interface Management Plans
• Interface registers
• Interface matrices
• Responsibility assignment
• Multidisciplinary coordination
• Airside and landside integration
• Terminal-system interfaces
• Runway and taxiway interfaces
• Airfield-ground-lighting coordination
• Utility integration
• ICT and ELV interfaces
• Security-system integration
• Airport operational readiness
• Technical workshop facilitation
• Scope-gap identification
• Interface-risk management
• Contractor coordination
• BIM coordination
• Federated-model review
• Clash detection
• Digital engineering
• Common data environments
• Primavera P6
• Aconex
• Unifier
• Interface dashboards
• Testing and commissioning support
• Handover and closure assurance

Why Join Us

This position offers program-level influence over the connections that determine whether a major airport operates as one coordinated system. The lead will work across terminal buildings, airfield assets, utilities, digital systems, contractors, and aviation stakeholders. The role provides a strong pathway toward interface-director, systems-integration, technical-governance, and airport-program leadership within Saudi Arabia's expanding Airlines/Aviation market.

About the Company

Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, systems integration, construction supervision, and program-management services for complex airport and infrastructure developments. Its multidisciplinary teams help clients coordinate interfaces and prepare integrated assets for safe, reliable operation.