Senior Project Manager - Logistics Delivery

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 368,000 - 569,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons Corporation in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is seeking a Senior Project Manager - Logistics Delivery to lead complex infrastructure programmes, integrating transport, utilities, and community development from planning through handover. The role drives schedule, safety, and cost controls across multiple packages within a dynamic construction environment.

Ideal candidates bring extensive senior project management experience, strong logistics know-how, and a track record of successful programme

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in engineering or related field.
• Minimum 15 years of professional experience in large infrastructure projects.
• Proven leadership of complex multi-project programmes.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, governance, execution, and delivery of major infrastructure programmes.
• Maintain accountability for performance from concept to handover and readiness.
• Develop execution strategies, roadmaps, and governance for delivery.
• Coordinate multiple work packages and manage dependencies across teams.

Skills

Senior project management

Programme management

Construction logistics

Infrastructure delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

Senior Project Manager - Logistics Delivery Job Snapshot Role: Senior Project Manager - Logistics Delivery Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Industry: Construction Function: Project Management Experience: Minimum 15 years Job Type: Full-time Position Overview Senior Project Manager - Logistics Delivery in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a senior Construction opportunity for an experienced program leader capable of managing large-scale logistics, transportation, infrastructure, utilities, and community development projects from initial planning through handover and operational readiness. The role carries end-to-end accountability for programme performance, integrating multiple projects and contractors while maintaining control over safety, schedule, budget, commercial risk, stakeholder requirements, and long-term operational objectives.

Job Details Country: Saudi Arabia City: Riyadh Industry: Construction Function: Project Management Salary: 30000-50000 Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer. Senior Project Manager compensation in Riyadh averages around SAR 33000 per month and can reach approximately SAR 51000 depending on experience and project complexity. ([GulfTalent][1]) Gender: Any Candidate Nationality: Any Job Type: Full-time

Role Context The Senior Project Manager provides strategic and operational leadership across complex development programmes where infrastructure, transportation, utilities, logistics, construction, and community assets must be delivered as an integrated whole. The position converts development objectives into executable programmes, coordinates multiple project packages, manages critical dependencies, and ensures delivery teams remain focused on agreed outcomes. A major responsibility is creating the logistics framework required for large construction environments. This includes construction access, materials movement, contractor interfaces, site-wide coordination, staging, and transportation requirements. Effective management of these elements helps prevent congestion, programme disruption, resource conflicts, and safety risks while maintaining progress across multiple active work fronts.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, governance, execution, and delivery of major infrastructure and development programmes.
• Maintain accountability for project performance from concept development through construction, handover, and operational readiness.
• Develop programme execution strategies, implementation plans, delivery roadmaps, and governance arrangements.
• Align project strategies with organizational objectives and relevant national development priorities.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects and packages within a broader programme portfolio.
• Establish clear priorities across project teams, contractors, consultants, suppliers, and delivery partners.
• Identify interdependencies between workstreams and coordinate timely resolution of conflicts.
• Maintain visibility of critical decisions, approvals, constraints, and delivery risks.
• Drive corrective actions when project performance begins to diverge from approved objectives. Programme scheduling will require integrated control across multiple delivery areas.
• Develop and control master schedules covering design, procurement, construction, testing, handover, and operational readiness.
• Establish project phasing strategies and critical programme milestones.
• Monitor progress against approved baselines and identify emerging schedule threats.
• Coordinate schedule interfaces between infrastructure, transportation, utilities, residential, and community development packages.
• Review contractor schedules and assess their alignment with overall programme requirements.
• Develop recovery strategies when delays threaten key milestones.
• Prioritize resources and activities to protect critical path performance.
• Ensure dependencies between individual packages are clearly understood and managed.
• Logistics planning will form a central element of programme delivery.
• Develop and oversee site-wide construction logistics strategies.
• Coordinate construction access for contractors, suppliers, equipment, and workforce movements.
• Establish logistics plans that support multiple simultaneous construction work fronts.
• Manage interfaces between contractor compounds, storage areas, haul routes, access points, and active construction zones.
• Coordinate materials movement to reduce disruption and maintain efficient site operations.
• Monitor logistics constraints that could affect construction productivity.
• Support planning for major deliveries and movement of large or specialist equipment.
• Coordinate temporary access requirements and construction traffic arrangements.
• Resolve logistics conflicts between contractors and adjacent project packages.
• Integrate logistics planning with safety, construction staging, and programme requirements.
• Infrastructure integration will require close coordination across several technical sectors.
• Drive alignment between transportation corridors, utility networks, infrastructure systems, residential developments, and community assets.
• Coordinate interfaces between roads, highways, utilities, public spaces, and supporting infrastructure.
• Ensure project teams understand dependencies affecting adjacent assets and development packages.
• Facilitate multidisciplinary solutions where infrastructure systems compete for space, access, or programme priority.
• Identify interface risks early and establish responsible parties for resolution.
• Maintain programme-level oversight of issues that could affect several projects simultaneously.
• Cost and commercial management will remain closely connected to delivery decisions.
• Oversee programme budgeting, cost estimating, forecasting, and cost control.
• Monitor financial performance against approved budgets.
• Review cost trends and identify potential overruns before they materially affect programme objectives.
• Support Value Engineering initiatives to improve cost efficiency and project performance.
• Ensure cost optimization does not compromise safety, quality, functionality, or long-term operational requirements.
• Work with Commercial teams to understand current and forecast financial exposure.
• Maintain management visibility of significant commercial risks and required actions.
• Procurement activities will require strategic input throughout the programme.
• Support development of procurement strategies for consultants, contractors, suppliers, and specialist service providers.
• Assist with preparation of tendering strategies aligned with programme requirements.
• Participate in technical and commercial evaluations where appropriate.
• Support award recommendations based on capability, value, risk, and delivery requirements.
• Coordinate procurement schedules with master programme milestones.
• Monitor major supply-chain risks and procurement dependencies.
• Identify long-lead materials or equipment that could affect construction progress.
• Construction performance will require active senior-level oversight.
• Lead construction delivery planning for infrastructure, transportation corridors, utilities, residential developments, and associated assets.
• Monitor contractor performance, productivity, resource deployment, and progress.
• Review project data to identify deteriorating construction performance.
• Challenge contractors where progress, quality, safety, or coordination does not meet requirements.
• Establish corrective action plans and monitor implementation.
• Coordinate construction sequencing where adjacent packages or contractors interact.
• Maintain focus on practical delivery while protecting technical and contractual requirements.
• Safety, environmental performance, and quality will remain fundamental programme controls.
• Champion strong construction safety leadership across the programme.
• Ensure contractors and project teams comply with approved health and safety requirements.
• Monitor implementation of project-specific safety plans.
• Promote effective environmental management throughout construction activities.
• Maintain oversight of quality performance and significant non-conformances.
• Ensure corrective measures are implemented where recurring safety or quality concerns are identified.
• Integrate safe construction planning into logistics, staging, access, and programme decisions.
• Contract administration and change management will require senior commercial awareness.
• Oversee administration of major contracts and consultant appointments.
• Monitor project changes and their effect on cost, schedule, scope, and operational requirements.
• Support evaluation of contractor claims.
• Ensure variations and commercial changes are properly assessed and documented.
• Promote early resolution of commercial issues to reduce escalation and dispute exposure.
• Participate in dispute avoidance and resolution strategies where required.
• Balance contractual and commercial considerations with overall programme delivery objectives.
• Ensure significant commercial risks are escalated appropriately.
• Government and authority engagement will be important to successful programme delivery.
• Manage relationships with government entities, regulatory authorities, municipalities, and public-sector stakeholders.
• Coordinate permits, approvals, and regulatory submissions affecting programme execution.
• Ensure project teams understand applicable codes, regulations, and authority requirements.
• Track approvals that could influence design, construction, or operational milestones.
• Facilitate coordination where multiple government agencies have overlapping requirements.
• Support resolution of authority comments and approval constraints.
• Stakeholder management will extend beyond technical project teams.
• Develop communication and engagement strategies for affected stakeholders.
• Coordinate with communities, end users, operational entities, and adjacent developments.
• Maintain constructive relationships with consultants, contractors, suppliers, and delivery partners.
• Communicate programme priorities and constraints clearly across organizations.
• Prepare briefing material for senior leadership and external stakeholders.
• Translate complex project information into clear recommendations and decision requirements.
• Lead or participate in executive meetings, programme reviews, and stakeholder workshops.
• Operational readiness must be planned from the earliest project stages.
• Ensure operations, maintenance, and asset management requirements are embedded into design and delivery.
• Coordinate with future operators and asset management teams during project development.
• Monitor preparation of operation and maintenance information.
• Ensure asset handover requirements are clearly defined and tracked.
• Oversee preparation of as-built drawings and final project records.
• Confirm that required training and operational documentation are completed before handover.
• Support commissioning, transition planning, and readiness activities.
• Ensure completed assets can move efficiently from construction into live operations.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor 's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 15 years of professional experience delivering major infrastructure and development projects.
• Several years of experience operating in a senior project or programme management capacity.
• Proven exposure to large logistics platforms, transportation hubs, or integrated infrastructure programmes.
• Demonstrated experience delivering major transportation, highways, rail, utilities, mixed-use, residential, or community development programmes.
• Track record of managing complex multi-billion-riyal programmes or portfolios is highly valuable.
• Strong understanding of construction logistics and site-wide coordination.
• Experience integrating numerous contractors, work packages, technical disciplines, and project stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of master scheduling, cost control, procurement, risk, change, and commercial management.
• Demonstrated experience working with government organizations, regulators, municipalities, or major master developers.
• Strong knowledge of construction and engineering delivery processes.
• Ability to manage complex stakeholder environments involving both technical and community interests.
• Strong leadership capability with confidence making decisions across competing project priorities.
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills.
• Working knowledge of recognised project management frameworks and methodologies.
• PMP, PMI, PRINCE2, or comparable project management credentials are advantageous.

Skills Set

• Senior project management
• Programme management
• Construction logistics
• Infrastructure delivery
• Transportation infrastructure
• Logistics hubs
• Master programme management
• Master scheduling
• Construction phasing
• Construction access planning
• Site-wide logistics
• Materials management
• Construction traffic management
• Contractor interface management
• Programme governance
• Portfolio management
• Project controls
• Cost management
• Budgeting
• Cost forecasting
• Value Engineering
• Risk management
• Change management
• Claims management
• Contract administration
• Procurement strategy
• Tender evaluation
• Contractor management
• Consultant management
• Construction management
• Utility infrastructure
• Highway projects
• Rail infrastructure
• Community development
• Mixed-use development
• Residential development
• Government stakeholder management
• Regulatory coordination
• Authority approvals
• Stakeholder engagement
• Executive reporting
• Decision papers
• Operational readiness
• Asset management integration
• Project handover
• As-built documentation
• Programme risk mitigation
• Multidisciplinary coordination

Why Join Us

This position provides senior accountability across complex Construction programmes in Riyadh, combining logistics, infrastructure, transportation, commercial management, stakeholder engagement, and operational readiness within one leadership role. Saudi Arabia 's major development environment continues to create demand for programme leaders who can coordinate large contractor ecosystems and convert ambitious development plans into controlled, executable delivery strategies. The scope provides a strong platform for progression toward Project Director, Program Director, Development Director, and executive-level programme delivery responsibilities.

About the Company

Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, infrastructure, transportation, program management, construction management, project controls, and technology services across major international developments. Its Saudi Arabia operations support large and technically complex programmes where integrated logistics, disciplined project management, stakeholder coordination, and effective infrastructure delivery are essential to achieving long-term development objectives.

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