Senior Technical Delivery Lead – Transportation Programs

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 360,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons is seeking a Technical Delivery Manager to coordinate and drive multidisciplinary technical activities across the RCRC Traffic Management Support Services program in Saudi Arabia. You will translate client priorities into technical tasks, manage schedules and quality, and ensure outputs meet defined standards and interfaces.

Lead delivery across traffic engineering, transportation planning, ITS, and associated disciplines, while coordinating with discipline leads and subject-matter

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Traffic Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a closely related discipline.
• 12+ years of progressive experience delivering multidisciplinary transportation, traffic management, ITS, roadway, or infrastructure engineering assignments.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating multiple technical workstreams and producing complex technical deliverables under demanding client schedules.
• Strong understanding of engineering delivery processes including field investigation, analysis, concept development, specifications, design review, technical reporting, quality review, comment resolution, and implementation support.
• Broad working knowledge of traffic engineering, transportation planning, roadway design, ITS, traffic signal systems, and construction interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the planning and day-to-day delivery of technical project activities across traffic engineering, transportation planning, ITS, roadway design, signal systems, TCC operations, construction traffic management, data analysis, and related disciplines.
• Translate project requirements, RCRC instructions, approved schedules, and workstream priorities into clearly defined technical tasks, responsibilities, intermediate milestones, and final deliverables.
• Develop and maintain detailed technical delivery plans for reports, investigations, specifications, guidelines, procedures, studies, and implementation-support assignments.
• Coordinate field investigations, data requirements, technical analyses, engineering reviews, workshops, and document-production activities so that dependencies are identified and managed early.
• Manage interfaces between discipline leads and subject-matter experts, ensuring technical inputs are complete, compatible, and available when required.
• Monitor progress against agreed technical schedules and identify emerging delays, resource conflicts, missing inputs, unresolved decisions, or quality risks requiring corrective action.
• Conduct regular technical coordination meetings and maintain clear action logs, responsibility assignments, decision records, and follow-up priorities.
• Support preparation and review of technical reports, specifications, drawings, procedures, guidelines, assessment outputs, presentations, and supporting calculations.
• Ensure technical work is developed in accordance with approved methodologies, project procedures, applicable standards, RCRC expectations, and defined quality requirements.
• Coordinate internal technical review and quality-assurance activities before formal document submission.
• Manage RCRC review comments and technical action items by assigning responses, tracking closure, escalating unresolved issues, and coordinating revised submissions.
• Work closely with the Document Manager and Technical Editor to ensure technical outputs are complete and ready for controlled submission.
• Coordinate implementation-support activities, including contractor submittal reviews, field verification, technical issue resolution, and follow-up of recommended transportation improvements.
• Prepare concise delivery-status information for weekly and monthly project reporting, including accomplishments, upcoming milestones, risks, decisions, and recovery actions.
• Support resource planning by forecasting discipline needs and identifying where specialist support, additional reviews, or schedule adjustments are required.
• Promote integration between assessment findings, technical guidelines, design recommendations, operational procedures, and implementation activities so that project outputs remain consistent and practical.

Job description

Parsons is seeking a Technical Delivery Manager to coordinate and drive multidisciplinary technical activities across the RCRC Traffic Management Support Services program in Saudi Arabia. You will translate client priorities into technical tasks, manage schedules and quality, and ensure outputs meet defined standards and interfaces.

Lead delivery across traffic engineering, transportation planning, ITS, and associated disciplines, while coordinating with discipline leads and subject-matter