Technical Design Manager - Infrastructure Delivery

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 446,000 - 647,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons Corporation is seeking a Technical Design Manager in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to oversee multidisciplinary design, technical coordination, digital engineering, and resource planning for major infrastructure and landscape projects.

The role leads multiple design packages, ensures compliance with client requirements and standards, drives value engineering, and delivers on schedule, cost, and quality targets. Senior leadership and extensive Saudi experience are highly valued.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or related field.
• 20+ years of professional design experience.
• At least 10 years in technical coordination for infrastructure and landscape projects.
• Proven capability managing multidisciplinary design teams on large-scale projects.
• Experience coordinating multiple design packages and deliverables.
• Strong knowledge of engineering codes, standards, and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Manage multidisciplinary design deliverables across infrastructure and landscape packages.
• Coordinate design execution with client requirements and project schedules.
• Oversee preparation of drawings, calculations, reports, specifications, and tender packages.
• Lead design meetings and resolve complex multidisciplinary issues.
• Ensure design compliance, constructability, and QA/QC across packages.
• Promote BIM and digital engineering workflows for better coordination.

Skills

Design management

Technical coordination

Infrastructure design

Landscape infrastructure

Design reviews

BIM coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

Revit

BIM360

Navisworks

BIM

Job description

Technical Design Manager - Infrastructure Delivery Job Snapshot

Role: Technical Design Manager - Infrastructure Delivery

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Industry: Engineering

Function: Design

General Experience: 20 years in design, including 10 years in technical coordination for infrastructure and landscape projects

Job Type: Full-time

Position Overview

Technical Design Manager - Infrastructure Delivery in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a senior Engineering opportunity focused on multidisciplinary design management, technical coordination, digital engineering, resource planning, and design assurance across complex infrastructure and landscape projects. Parsons Corporation is hiring an experienced design leader to manage multiple technical packages, integrate engineering disciplines, maintain compliance with Client requirements, and drive design deliverables against schedule, cost, and quality objectives.

Job Details

Country: Saudi Arabia City: Riyadh Industry: Engineering Function: Design General Salary: 40000-58000 Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer. Gender: Any Candidate Nationality: Any Job Type: Full-time

Role Context

The Technical Design Manager will control the technical development of multiple design packages while coordinating the people, information, interfaces, and approvals required for successful delivery. The role extends beyond design review into resource management, technical governance, digital coordination, value engineering, and stakeholder alignment. Effective leadership will ensure that multidisciplinary solutions are technically compatible, adequately resourced, constructible, compliant, and mature enough to progress into tendering and subsequent project stages without avoidable redesign.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage multidisciplinary design deliverables across multiple infrastructure and landscape project packages.
• Establish design execution priorities and coordinate deliverables against approved project schedules and Client requirements.
• Oversee preparation of drawings, calculations, technical reports, specifications, design documentation, and tender packages.
• Coordinate civil, electrical, mechanical, landscape, and other specialist disciplines to achieve integrated technical solutions.
• Review design development for technical completeness, constructability, interdisciplinary compatibility, and regulatory compliance.
• Lead design meetings and provide technically viable solutions to complex multidisciplinary issues.
• Validate meeting records and ensure technical decisions, responsibilities, and required actions are accurately captured.
• Present proposed design solutions across relevant disciplines and obtain alignment before progressing critical deliverables.
• Maintain clear communication with Clients, consultants, internal teams, and other project stakeholders.
• Identify information requirements early and coordinate timely inputs needed to prevent design delays.
• Participate in formal design reviews, value engineering workshops, technical coordination sessions, and safety reviews.
• Ensure designs comply with applicable codes, standards, regulatory frameworks, project specifications, and Client requirements.
• Monitor design team performance against schedule, budget, quality, and production targets.
• Develop resource plans with project leadership to maintain appropriate engineering capacity across active packages.
• Review discipline staffing estimates, resource budgets, and assignment schedules.
• Adjust staffing levels to address changing workloads, critical design periods, and project priorities.
• Monitor discipline overhead expenditure and maintain performance within authorized budgets.
• Establish design standards, procedures, technical workflows, and discipline guidance.
• Identify opportunities to improve departmental procedures and increase design delivery efficiency.
• Promote consistent quality assurance and quality improvement processes throughout the design lifecycle.
• Review technical deliverables for quality before formal submission to Clients and stakeholders.
• Support resolution of complex design issues that could affect project scope, cost, schedule, safety, or constructability.
• Coordinate technical decisions with project controls teams where design changes could affect cost, risk, or schedule.
• Promote BIM and digital engineering workflows for improved coordination and information management.
• Support clash detection and interdisciplinary reviews using Revit, BIM360, Navisworks, and related digital platforms.
• Maintain effective document control and traceability across drawings, reports, revisions, comments, and approvals.
• Support recruitment and evaluation of technical personnel according to project resource requirements.
• Provide orientation, mentoring, technical guidance, and professional development for design team members.
• Conduct performance evaluations and address capability or performance issues when necessary.
• Encourage knowledge sharing and development of reusable technical standards and procedures.
• Coordinate with government and semi-government stakeholders where projects require formal technical engagement or approvals.
• Maintain management visibility of design progress, outstanding decisions, technical risks, resource constraints, and recovery requirements.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor 's degree in Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• More than 20 years of progressive professional design experience.
• At least 10 years of technical coordination experience involving site infrastructure and landscape projects.
• Proven capability managing multidisciplinary design teams on large-scale projects.
• Extensive experience coordinating multiple design packages and simultaneous technical deliverables.
• Strong understanding of engineering codes, design standards, regulatory requirements, and approval processes.
• Experience delivering infrastructure or major development projects in Saudi Arabia or the wider Middle East is highly desirable.
• Strong capability reviewing designs from technical, constructability, coordination, quality, and compliance perspectives.
• Experience working with government or semi-government Clients is advantageous.
• Strong understanding of design interfaces with project cost, schedule, risk, and project controls.
• Proficient with AutoCAD, Revit, BIM360, and relevant document management applications.
• Working knowledge of BIM, Navisworks, and digital engineering coordination platforms.
• Able to lead technical meetings and communicate multidisciplinary design solutions clearly to diverse stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience planning engineering resources and supervising technical personnel.
• Strong presentation, collaboration, decision-making, and stakeholder coordination capability.
• PMP, RICS, PE, or equivalent professional certification is advantageous.
• Valid Saudi Arabian driving license is desirable.

Skills Set

• Multidisciplinary design management
• Technical design coordination
• Infrastructure design
• Landscape infrastructure
• Design package management
• Design assurance
• Design reviews
• Constructability reviews
• Technical documentation
• Tender documentation
• Value engineering
• Design quality assurance
• Resource planning
• Staffing management
• Design schedule management
• Design cost monitoring
• Technical risk managementRegulatory compliance
• Stakeholder coordination
• Client coordination
• AutoCAD
• Revit
• BIM360
• BIM
• Navisworks
• Digital engineering
• Clash detection
• Document control
• Design standards
• Technical procedures
• Project controls integration
• Design team leadership
• Technical mentoring
• Infrastructure tender packages
• Government Client coordination

Why Join Us

Riyadh 's major infrastructure and urban development programs increasingly depend on design managers who can integrate multiple engineering disciplines, digital workflows, Client requirements, and delivery constraints across complex project portfolios. This position provides senior technical influence over design quality, resource strategy, value engineering, BIM coordination, and project readiness. It offers an experienced Engineering professional the opportunity to guide multidisciplinary teams and shape technically robust solutions across high-value developments in Saudi Arabia.

About the Company

Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, infrastructure, program management, and technology solutions for major development programs worldwide. In Saudi Arabia, its multidisciplinary teams support complex infrastructure projects through integrated design management, digital engineering, technical assurance, stakeholder coordination, and disciplined project delivery.