Senior Manager - District Integration

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 550,000 - 850,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons leads the senior team driving district integration in Riyadh, coordinating rail assets with developer districts and GoA4 driverless systems. The role governs BIM processes, interface control, and safety while aligning master plans with district scale infrastructure.

You will oversee complex clashes, rights-of-way, and maintenance easements, ensuring design coordination across civil, MEP, and rail disciplines.

Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years of experience in large-scale rail, transit, metro, urban infrastructure, or complex master-planned development programs.
• Strong background in multidisciplinary interface management across rail assets, developer plots, civil works, structures, MEP, systems, public-realm, utilities, and operations.
• Excellent understanding of rail alignment constraints, structural clearances, tunnel requirements, viaduct interfaces, station planning, auxiliary infrastructure, and spatial needs for GoA4 driverless rail systems.
• Proven ability to manage rail integration within developer-led or mega-project environments where real-estate objectives must be balanced with strict transit system requirements.
• Deep familiarity with BIM coordination workflows, federated model reviews, clash detection, 3D coordination, and modern design coordination software.
• Strong knowledge of Fire Life Safety requirements for rail and transit environments, including NFPA 130 principles, evacuation planning, smoke management, emergency access, and civil defense coordination.
• Practical understanding of Operations and Maintenance requirements for rail assets, including access, replacement routes, maintainability, safety zones, and permanent operational clearances.
• Experience preparing and managing interface control documents, boundary matrices, interface registers, rights-of-way records, access plans, and design coordination trackers.
• Strong ability to resolve conflicts between rail infrastructure, private development, utilities, road networks, landscaping, public-realm, and passenger-movement requirements.
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills with the ability to negotiate firmly while maintaining constructive relationships with developers and project stakeholders.
• Able to lead technical workshops, guide multidisciplinary teams, make practical decisions, and elevate critical risks when required.

Responsibilities

• Lead spatial integration and layout coordination for fixed rail infrastructure including tunnels, elevated viaducts, stations, auxiliary buildings, ventilation shafts, emergency exits, and traction power substations.
• Ensure rail infrastructure fits within tightly constrained developer districts while maintaining operational safety, system performance, maintainability, and masterplan alignment.
• Define, manage, and protect rail rights-of-way, structural zones, operational boundaries, access corridors, and maintenance easements.
• Prevent encroachment from adjacent real estate, utilities, roads, landscaping, public-realm assets, and developer-controlled works.
• Coordinate placement and design of wayside infrastructure such as ventilation shafts, escape stairs, traction substations, service access points, and emergency intervention routes.
• Lead BIM and federated model coordination across civil works, structures, MEP, rail systems, architecture, utilities, roads, landscape, and developer assets.
• Identify spatial clashes early through model reviews and drive practical resolution between rail components, buildings, utilities, public-realm, and district infrastructure.
• Act as the lead technical mediator for interface conflicts involving rail alignment, structures, developer plots, deep utilities, access zones, roads, landscape features, and public-realm elements.
• Establish, maintain, and update interface control documents, boundary matrices, access schedules, ownership records, interface registers, and construction sequencing records.
• Coordinate cross-asset alignment between stations, tunnels, viaducts, ancillary structures, utility networks, district developments, and transport interfaces.
• Ensure Fire Life Safety requirements are embedded into integrated district designs from early planning through detailed design and construction coordination.

Skills

District integration

Rail interface management

Metro infrastructure

GoA4 driverless rail systems

Rail alignment coordination

Station integration

Tunnel interfaces

Viaduct interfaces

Auxiliary rail infrastructure

Traction substations

Ventilation shafts

Escape stairs

Rights-of-way management

Spaceproofing

Structural clearances

Maintenance easements

Developer interface coordination

Master-planned development

Urban infrastructure

BIM coordination

Federated model review

Clash detection

3D model governance

Civil works coordination

MEP coordination

Rail systems coordination

Utility interface management

Public-realm integration

Interface control documents

Boundary matrices

Interface registers

Construction sequencing

Fire Life Safety

NFPA 130

Emergency egress/Smoke management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or related discipline

Tools

BIM coordination tools

Job description

Overview

Senior Manager – District Integration in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, leads the physical and functional integration of a GoA4 driverless rail system within major developer-led districts. The role coordinates stations, viaducts, tunnels, traction substations, ventilation shafts, emergency access, public-realm interfaces, and rail system requirements while ensuring safety, operations, customer experience, and masterplan objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead spatial integration and layout coordination for fixed rail infrastructure including tunnels, elevated viaducts, stations, auxiliary buildings, ventilation shafts, emergency exits, and traction power substations.
• Ensure rail infrastructure fits within tightly constrained developer districts while maintaining operational safety, system performance, maintainability, and masterplan alignment.
• Define, manage, and protect rail rights-of-way, structural zones, operational boundaries, access corridors, and maintenance easements.
• Prevent encroachment from adjacent real estate, utilities, roads, landscaping, public-realm assets, and developer-controlled works.
• Coordinate placement and design of wayside infrastructure such as ventilation shafts, escape stairs, traction substations, service access points, and emergency intervention routes.
• Lead BIM and federated model coordination across civil works, structures, MEP, rail systems, architecture, utilities, roads, landscape, and developer assets.
• Identify spatial clashes early through model reviews and drive practical resolution between rail components, buildings, utilities, public-realm, and district infrastructure.
• Act as the lead technical mediator for interface conflicts involving rail alignment, structures, developer plots, deep utilities, access zones, roads, landscape features, and public-realm elements.
• Establish, maintain, and update interface control documents, boundary matrices, access schedules, ownership records, interface registers, and construction sequencing records.
• Coordinate cross-asset alignment between stations, tunnels, viaducts, ancillary structures, utility networks, district developments, and transport interfaces.
• Ensure Fire Life Safety requirements are embedded into integrated district designs from early planning through detailed design and construction coordination.
• Protect emergency egress routes, smoke-management paths, fire intervention access, evacuation routes, and civil defense requirements where rail assets interface with private or developer-controlled property.
• Ensure Operations and Maintenance needs are fully considered, including safe 24-hour access, heavy equipment routes, replacement component paths, maintenance clearances, and long-term asset access.
• Coordinate customer-experience interfaces between public-realm, station entrances, pedestrian routes, accessible paths, wayfinding, interchange areas, and rail transit environments.
• Support intuitive, step-free, premium passenger movement between developer districts and rail facilities.
• Review technical submissions, drawings, models, design packages, interface proposals, and coordination outputs to confirm they protect rail requirements and urban design intent.
• Work closely with developers, rail systems teams, civil engineers, structural engineers, architects, MEP teams, FLS specialists, O&M representatives, consultants, contractors, and client stakeholders.
• Lead interface workshops, model coordination sessions, clash-resolution meetings, technical reviews, and decision-making forums.
• Track risks, decisions, assumptions, interface dependencies, unresolved clashes, access constraints, and mitigation actions through clear governance records.
• Provide senior reporting on interface progress, district integration risks, design conflicts, approval blockers, operational concerns, and recommended solutions.
• Support a collaborative working environment while firmly protecting the integrity, safety, and maintainability of the rail asset.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Architecture, Transportation Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.
• Minimum 15 years of experience in large-scale rail, transit, metro, urban infrastructure, or complex master-planned development programs.
• Strong background in multidisciplinary interface management across rail assets, developer plots, civil works, structures, MEP, systems, public-realm, utilities, and operations.
• Excellent understanding of rail alignment constraints, structural clearances, tunnel requirements, viaduct interfaces, station planning, auxiliary infrastructure, and spatial needs for GoA4 driverless rail systems.
• Proven ability to manage rail integration within developer-led or mega-project environments where real-estate objectives must be balanced with strict transit system requirements.
• Deep familiarity with BIM coordination workflows, federated model reviews, clash detection, 3D coordination, and modern design coordination software.
• Strong knowledge of Fire Life Safety requirements for rail and transit environments, including NFPA 130 principles, evacuation planning, smoke management, emergency access, and civil defense coordination.
• Practical understanding of Operations and Maintenance requirements for rail assets, including access, replacement routes, maintainability, safety zones, and permanent operational clearances.
• Experience preparing and managing interface control documents, boundary matrices, interface registers, rights-of-way records, access plans, and design coordination trackers.
• Strong ability to resolve conflicts between rail infrastructure, private development, utilities, road networks, landscaping, public-realm, and passenger-movement requirements.
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills with the ability to negotiate firmly while maintaining constructive relationships with developers and project stakeholders.
• Able to lead technical workshops, guide multidisciplinary teams, make practical decisions, and elevate critical risks when required.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability with a focus on safe, buildable, operationally realistic, and future-ready integration outcomes.
• Experience in Saudi Arabia, GCC rail projects, metro systems, transit-oriented development, or giga-project environments is highly desirable.

Skills Set

• District integration
• Rail interface management
• Metro infrastructure
• GoA4 driverless rail systems
• Rail alignment coordination
• Station integration
• Tunnel interfaces
• Viaduct interfaces
• Auxiliary rail infrastructure
• Traction substations
• Ventilation shafts
• Escape stairs
• Rights-of-way management
• Spaceproofing
• Structural clearances
• Maintenance easements
• Developer interface coordination
• Master-planned development
• Urban infrastructure
• BIM coordination
• Federated model review
• Clash detection
• 3D model governance
• Civil works coordination
• MEP coordination
• Rail systems coordination
• Utility interface management
• Public-realm integration
• Interface control documents
• Boundary matrices
• Interface registers
• Construction sequencing
• Fire Life Safety
• NFPA 130
• Emergency egressSmoke management
• Civil defense access
• Operations and Maintenance access
• Asset maintainability
• Customer experience
• Wayfinding
• Step-free accessibility
• Passenger journey planning
• Technical workshops
• Stakeholder negotiation
• Risk tracking
• Design coordination
• Urban rail development

Why Join Us

This role offers a senior rail integration professional the opportunity to manage one of the most technically sensitive interfaces in a major Riyadh urban rail environment, where a high-performance driverless transit system meets large-scale district development. The position provides strong exposure to rail assets, masterplanning, BIM governance, Fire Life Safety, Operations and Maintenance, public-realm integration, and developer-side coordination.

Parsons Corporation is a global engineering, construction, program management, technology, and infrastructure solutions company delivering complex projects across transportation, rail, aviation, smart cities, utilities, defense, and major urban development. In Saudi Arabia, Parsons supports national programs through technical engineering, project management, systems integration, design coordination, construction supervision, digital delivery, quality oversight, and multidisciplinary infrastructure expertise.