Station Design Manager - Process Coordination

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 279,000 - 446,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons is hiring a Station Design Manager - Process Coordination in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for a major rail program. The role focuses on coordinating the design process across disciplines, maintaining schedules, and ensuring timely information flow to stakeholders.

This is a senior, client-facing function with exposure to design-management and regulatory interfaces. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of ten years in project-management or design-coordination within rail or transit projects,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, or related discipline.
• Minimum ten years of project-management or design-coordination experience.
• Experience with major infrastructure, railway, metro, or transit developments.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary design processes, workflows, and approvals.
• Strong ability to coordinate parallel activities within a complex stakeholder environment.
• Familiarity with design-management frameworks and stage-review procedures.
• Knowledge of document control and common data environments.
• Understanding rail-project lifecycle and regulatory approvals.
• Excellent facilitation and communication skills.
• PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent qualification advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Serve as regular client contact for design-process matters involving the Upper Plateau Stations.
• Organize and lead design-coordination meetings with multidisciplinary participants.
• Record decisions, actions, owners, and dates; follow up to closure.
• Coordinate design inputs and ensure traceability to requirements.
• Prepare status reports, dashboards, and client presentations.
• Manage interfaces between station designs and tracks, systems, and utilities.

Skills

Rail-station design

Design-process coordination

Client-interface management

Milestone tracking

Microsoft Project

Primavera

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Project

Primavera

Job description

Station Design Manager - Process Coordination Job Snapshot

Role: Station Design Manager - Process Coordination

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Industry: Transportation-Trucking-Railroad

Function: Project Management

Experience: Minimum 10 years

Job Type: Full-time

Position Overview Parsons is hiring a Station Design Manager - Process Coordination in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for a major rail mega project within the Transportation-Trucking-Railroad industry. The manager will plan, coordinate, and control the design process for the Upper Plateau Stations while serving as a regular client contact. This role focuses on design-process management rather than direct technical production. The successful candidate will organize multidisciplinary inputs, maintain review and approval schedules, manage interfaces, track decisions, and ensure that information reaches the correct stakeholders at the required time.

Job Details Country: Saudi Arabia City: Riyadh Industry: Transportation-Trucking-Railroad Function: Project Management Salary: 25000-40000 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

Rail-station design brings together architecture, civil and structural engineering, MEP systems, rail technology, safety, accessibility, passenger operations, utilities, and public-realm requirements. Each discipline depends on accurate information and timely decisions from the others. The Station Design Manager will create the structure that keeps these parallel activities synchronized. Effective workflow planning, action tracking, and interface control will reduce approval delays, prevent unresolved comments, and maintain progress toward key design and construction milestones.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a regular client contact for design-process matters involving the Upper Plateau Stations.
• Organize and lead design-coordination meetings with multidisciplinary participants.
• Record decisions, actions, responsible owners, and completion dates.
• Follow outstanding matters through to documented closure.
• Capture client requirements and confirm their communication to relevant design teams.
• Maintain traceability between stakeholder decisions and design-development activities.
• Coordinate submissions and responses involving authorities, regulators, and third parties.
• Align external reviews with agreed submission and approval procedures.
• Develop and maintain the design-management plan and supporting workflows.
• Prepare detailed design-process schedules covering reviews, submissions, responses, and approvals.
• Monitor review cycles and key approval milestones.
• Coordinate architecture, civil, structural, MEP, systems, safety, accessibility, and operations inputs.
• Manage information exchange according to agreed process dates.
• Coordinate interfaces between station designs and tracks, viaducts, systems, utilities, and public-realm assets.
• Support formal change-control processes for modifications to design requirements.
• Confirm that changes are recorded, evaluated, communicated, and approved through the required steps.
• Track progress against design milestones and identify emerging delays or bottlenecks.
• Highlight critical-path decisions and information needed to maintain progress.
• Prepare status reports, dashboards, and presentations for the client and project leadership.
• Work with discipline leads to develop recovery actions for at-risk milestones.
• Verify that deliverables complete the required checking, review, and approval workflow before issue.
• Maintain a design-process risk register covering late inputs, unresolved comments, and approval delays.
• Coordinate mitigation actions with responsible stakeholders.
• Ensure that technical, safety, quality, and regulatory checks are included at the correct design stages.
• Promote compliance with project quality-management procedures.
• Facilitate constructability, operations, and maintenance review sessions.
• Capture feedback from construction and operations teams and integrate it into design workflows.
• Monitor review comments and resulting design actions through resolution.
• Maintain structured records of design decisions, approvals, comments, and actions.
• Work with document-control and information-management teams to support accurate records.
• Ensure proper use of common data environments and project-collaboration platforms.
• Support improvements to digital tools used for design-process management.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor 's degree in Engineering, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Minimum ten years of project-management or design-coordination experience.
• Background supporting major infrastructure, railway, metro, or transit developments.
• Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary design processes, workflows, and approvals.
• Ability to coordinate several parallel activities within a complex stakeholder environment.
• Experience with rail or metro stations is highly desirable.
• Exposure to elevated or plateau-station developments would be advantageous.
• Familiarity with design-management frameworks and stage-review procedures.
• Working knowledge of document control, information management, and common data environments.
• Good understanding of the rail-project lifecycle and regulatory approval processes.
• Strong meeting-facilitation, action-management, and stakeholder-coordination capabilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in a client-facing setting.
• Ability to identify process problems early and recommend practical solutions.
• Strong attention to documentation, traceability, deadlines, and procedural compliance.
• PMP, PRINCE2, or an equivalent project-management qualification is advantageous.

Skills Set

• Rail-station design management
• Design-process coordination
• Client-interface management
• Multidisciplinary design workflows
• Review and approval scheduling
• Design-management plans
• Milestone tracking
• Critical-path monitoring
• Action and decision registers
• Design-interface management
• Stakeholder-requirement tracking
• Authority submissions
• Change-control processes
• Design-process risk registers
• Constructability reviews
• Operations and maintenance reviews
Common data environments
• Document-control coordination
• Information management
• Microsoft Project
• Primavera
• Project dashboards
• Status reporting
• Workshop facilitation
• Quality-process compliance
• Recovery and mitigation planning

Why Join Us

This role offers day-to-day influence over the design progression of multiple stations within a major rail program. It provides valuable exposure to client leadership, multidisciplinary design interfaces, regulatory approvals, construction input, and digital information management. The position creates a strong pathway toward senior design-management, station-delivery, and rail-program leadership roles within Saudi Arabia 's expanding Transportation-Trucking-Railroad market.

About the Company

Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, design-management, systems, and program-delivery services for complex rail and transportation developments. Its multidisciplinary teams help clients coordinate technical information, stakeholder requirements, and project decisions throughout the asset lifecycle.