Senior Station Design Manager - Governance

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 391,000 - 558,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons is seeking a Senior Station Design Manager - Governance in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to govern the complete design process for the Upper Plateau Stations, ensuring controlled progress from early development to issued-for-construction packages across disciplines.

This governance-focused role emphasizes client-facing leadership, ensuring gates, reviews, and change control are applied consistently, with clear records and audit trails to support project decision-making and timely delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Project Management, or a related field.
• Minimum 15 years of project-management experience on major infrastructure, rail, or transit developments.
• Extensive experience governing design workflows, approvals, and multidisciplinary coordination.
• Proven involvement in complex multistation or mega-project environments.
• Strong knowledge of design-management frameworks and stage-gate processes.

Responsibilities

• Represent the station-design process in client and leadership discussions.
• Lead coordination and progress meetings focused on approvals, decisions, and actions.
• Clarify client requirements and maintain records of decisions and changes.
• Ensure design updates are incorporated into workflows and gated reviews.
• Coordinate approvals with authorities, regulators, operators, and third parties.
• Define and maintain the station design-management plan and governance procedures.

Skills

Multistation design governance

Rail-station design management

Client representation

Design-management plans

Stage-gate control

Issued-for-construction workflows

Multidisciplinary design coordination

Design-review cycles

Change-control

Design-audit trails

Stakeholder submissions

Authority approvals

Milestone scheduling

Design-resource coordination

Commercial-change support

Constructability workshops

Safety-in-design coordination

Quality-management systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/PM

Master's degree preferred

Tools

PMP

PRINCE2

Job description

Senior Station Design Manager - GovernanceRole: Senior Station Design Manager - GovernanceLocation: Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaIndustry: Transportation-Trucking-RailroadFunction: Project ManagementExperience: Minimum 15 yearsJob Type: Full-time

Position OverviewParsons is recruiting a Senior Station Design Manager - Governance in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for a major rail mega project within the Transportation-Trucking-Railroad industry. The manager will govern the complete design process for the Upper Plateau Stations, providing the client with a clear and controlled route from early development to issued-for-construction packages. This is a process and interface leadership position rather than a technical-production role. The successful candidate will ensure that the correct contributors, information, reviews, approvals, and governance controls are available so each station design progresses transparently and in accordance with program and quality requirements.

Job Details

Country: Saudi Arabia

City: Riyadh

Industry: Transportation-Trucking-Railroad

Function: Project Management

Salary: 35000-50000 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

A multistation rail program generates thousands of interconnected decisions across architecture, structures, building services, rail systems, fire safety, accessibility, operations, and public infrastructure. Without disciplined governance, delayed inputs or unresolved comments can disrupt procurement and construction across multiple packages. The Senior Station Design Manager will provide client-facing control over this process. Reliable approval gates, coordinated interfaces, and complete audit trails will give leadership confidence that each station is advancing on an agreed, compliant, and buildable basis.

Key Responsibilities

• Represent the station-design process in regular client and leadership discussions.
• Lead coordination and progress meetings focused on approvals, decisions, dependencies, and outstanding actions.
• Clarify client requirements and maintain documented records of decisions and changes.
• Confirm that updated requirements are incorporated into the relevant design workflows.
• Coordinate approval processes with authorities, regulators, operators, and third parties.
• Align submission dates, review periods, response cycles, and required closeout actions.
• Define and maintain the station design-management plan.
• Establish workflows, review gates, approval authorities, and decision-making responsibilities.
• Control design-review cycles and formal comment‑resolution procedures.
• Verify that station deliverables complete the required checking and approval steps.
• Coordinate architecture, civil, structural, MEP, rail systems, fire safety, accessibility, and operations inputs.
• Maintain clear responsibilities and information‑exchange dates across disciplines.
• Govern interfaces between stations, tracks, viaducts, utilities, systems, and public‑realm works.
• Identify interface gaps and assign actions before they affect design progress.
• Ensure that design changes, variations, and updates follow approved change‑control procedures.
• Maintain traceable records of change justifications, impacts, approvals, and implementation.
• Develop and control the design-process schedule.
• Monitor milestones, review dates, submission deadlines, and approval timelines.
• Assess design‑team progress and highlight schedule or capacity risks.
• Coordinate recovery or acceleration plans when critical milestones are threatened.
• Plan design resources around major reviews and submission periods without assuming direct line management.
• Provide commercial teams with schedule and process evidence supporting variations, change orders, and claims.
• Implement design governance in accordance with quality plans and management systems.
• Maintain a process‑risk register covering delayed inputs, approval exposure, and interface dependencies.
• Coordinate mitigation actions and monitor their effectiveness.
• Embed code, standard, safety, environmental, accessibility, and regulatory reviews at the correct stages.
• Work with discipline leads to translate technical review requirements into scheduled process activities.
• Organize constructability, operability, and maintainability workshops.
• Ensure construction, operations, and maintenance input is captured and resolved.
• Maintain complete audit trails for design decisions, reviews, approvals, and actions.
• Oversee proper use of common data environments, document‑control systems, and collaboration platforms.
• Produce client‑facing reports covering achieved milestones, upcoming decisions, risks, and constraints.
• Escalate unresolved matters with concise options and recommended next steps.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor 's degree in Engineering, Project Management, or a related field.
• Master 's degree in a relevant discipline is preferred.
• Minimum 15 years of project‑management experience on major infrastructure, rail, or transit developments.
• Extensive experience governing design workflows, approvals, and multidisciplinary coordination.
• Proven involvement in complex multistation or mega‑project environments.
• Experience with railway, metro, elevated, or plateau‑station developments is strongly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of design‑management frameworks and stage‑gate processes.
• Familiarity with common data environments and formal document‑control systems.
• Understanding of station‑design requirements, railway standards, and regulatory approval processes.
• Ability to structure complex activities involving multiple disciplines and organizations.
• Strong planning, scheduling, design‑risk, and change‑control capabilities.
• Excellent client‑facing communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to explain process status, risks, dependencies, and options constructively.
• Proven workshop leadership and action‑management capability.
• Detail‑oriented approach to traceability, documentation, and compliance.
• PMP, PRINCE2, chartered status, or an equivalent professional qualification is highly desirable.

Skills Set

• Multistation design governance
• Rail‑station design management
• Client representation
• Design‑management plans
• Stage‑gate control
• Issued‑for‑construction workflows
• Multidisciplinary design coordination
• Design‑review cycles
• Comment‑resolution management
• Authority approvals
• Stakeholder submissions
• Station‑interface management
• Design change control
• Milestone scheduling
• Design‑resource coordination
• Design‑process risk registers
• Recovery and acceleration planning
• Commercial‑change support
• Constructability workshops
• Operational and maintenance reviews
• Safety‑in‑design coordination
• Accessibility reviews
• Quality‑management systems
• Common data environments
• Document‑control systems
• Design audit trails
• Client‑facing reporting
• Decision and action tracking

Why Join Us

This position offers governance responsibility across a portfolio of technically complex stations within a major rail development. The manager will influence client decisions, multidisciplinary coordination, stage approvals, commercial evidence, and the transition from design into construction. The role provides a strong route toward design‑director, station‑program, and rail‑delivery leadership within Saudi Arabia 's expanding Transportation-Trucking-Railroad market.

About the Company

Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, design governance, systems integration, and program‑management services for complex rail and transportation developments. Its teams help clients coordinate technical disciplines, approvals, interfaces, and delivery decisions across the complete project lifecycle.