Project Director

Parsons; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons is seeking an experienced Project Director to lead planning, design, and engineering delivery of major development projects. You will provide strategic and technical leadership across master planning, infrastructure, buildings, and multidisciplinary engineering to meet client objectives, schedules, and budgets.

Build and mentor high-performance teams, drive design reviews, value engineering, and data-driven coordination using BIM, GIS, and digital engineering while ensuring compliance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, Urban Planning, or related discipline.
• 20+ years of experience in major master planning, infrastructure, building, or large-scale development projects.
• Proven experience in senior leadership roles (Project Director, Design Director, Engineering Director).
• Strong experience managing multidisciplinary teams across master planning, architecture, infrastructure, utilities, transportation, and building engineering.
• Knowledge of design lifecycle from concept through detailed design, tender, and construction support.
• Strong knowledge of design management, governance, project controls, risk, and stakeholder coordination.
• Excellent leadership, client management, communication, negotiation, and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of master planning, infrastructure, building design, and multidisciplinary engineering.
• Manage multidisciplinary teams across architecture, urban planning, civil, structural, utilities, transportation, MEP, landscape, and specialist disciplines.
• Oversee projects from master planning and concept design through detailed design, tender documentation, and construction support.
• Ensure integration of buildings, infrastructure, utilities, mobility, public realm, and site-wide systems.
• Establish project governance, design strategies, technical standards, schedules, budgets, and delivery priorities.
• Lead design reviews, value engineering, constructability assessments, technical coordination, and issue resolution.
• Ensure compliance with codes, standards, sustainability objectives, and client requirements.
• Manage design consultants and specialist subconsultants, ensuring quality, schedule, and technical performance.
• Build strong relationships with clients, developers, authorities, consultants, and stakeholders.
• Promote BIM, GIS, digital engineering, and data-driven design coordination across the project.
• Identify and manage design risks, interfaces, changes, and dependencies throughout lifecycle.
• Lead, mentor, and develop project and design teams.

Skills

Leadership at senior level

Bachelor's degree in Architecture/Eng/

20+ years experience

Multidisciplinary team management

Design lifecycle knowledge

Stakeholder coordination

Strong communication & negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, Urban Planning, or related discipline

Tools

BIM

GIS

Digital engineering

AutoCAD

Job description

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Job Description

Parsons is looking for an experienced Project Director to lead the planning, design, and engineering delivery of major development projects. In this role, you will provide strategic and technical leadership across master planning, infrastructure, buildings, and multidisciplinary engineering, ensuring projects meet client objectives, quality standards, schedules, budgets, and regulatory requirements.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the delivery of master planning, infrastructure, building design, and multidisciplinary engineering services.

• Manage multidisciplinary teams across architecture, urban planning, civil, structural, utilities, transportation, MEP, landscape, and specialist disciplines.

• Oversee projects from master planning and concept design through detailed design, tender documentation, and construction support.

• Ensure effective integration of buildings, infrastructure, utilities, mobility, public realm, and site-wide systems.

• Establish project governance, design strategies, technical standards, schedules, budgets, and delivery priorities.

• Lead design reviews, value engineering, constructability assessments, technical coordination, and resolution of key design issues.

• Ensure compliance with applicable codes, standards, authority requirements, sustainability objectives, and client requirements.

• Manage design consultants and specialist subconsultants, ensuring quality, schedule, and technical performance.

• Build strong relationships with clients, developers, authorities, consultants, and key stakeholders.

• Promote BIM, GIS, digital engineering, and data-driven design coordination across the project.

• Identify and manage design risks, interfaces, changes, and dependencies throughout the project lifecycle.

• Lead, mentor, and develop project and design teams, promoting a collaborative and high-performance culture.

What Required Skills You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, Urban Planning, or a related discipline.

• 20+ years of experience in major master planning, infrastructure, building, or large-scale development projects.

• Proven experience as a Project Director, Design Director, Engineering Director, or equivalent senior leadership role.

• Strong experience managing multidisciplinary teams across master planning, architecture, infrastructure, utilities, transportation, and building engineering.

• Comprehensive understanding of the design lifecycle from concept through detailed design, tender, and construction support.

• Strong knowledge of design management, technical governance, project controls, risk, commercial management, and stakeholder coordination.

• Excellent leadership, client management, communication, negotiation, and decision-making skills.

What Desired Skills You'll Bring

• Experience delivering major master-planned communities, mixed-use developments, infrastructure programs, or complex building portfolios in United Arab Emirates or the Middle East.

• Knowledge of regional planning, authority approvals, design codes, and utility requirements.

• Experience integrating master planning, buildings, infrastructure, transportation, utilities, and public realm.

• Professional certification such as PMP, PE, CEng, RIBA, or equivalent is preferred.

Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.

About Us

Parsons is a digitally enabled solutions provider focused on the defense, security, and infrastructure markets. With nearly 75 years of experience, Parsons is uniquely qualified to deliver cyber/converged security, technology-based intellectual property, and other innovative services to federal, regional, and local government agencies, as well as to private industrial customers worldwide.

Parsons is an equal opportunity, drug-free employer committed to diversity in the workplace. Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veteran/LGBTQ+.

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