Senior Program Manager/Engineering Manager

Parsons; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons is seeking a Deputy for Technical Services to support a major program and construction management team delivering a large, complex industrial infrastructure project. The deputy will lead engineering, design management, and technical support throughout design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and turnover.

This 4–5 year contract is based near Little Rock, Arkansas. The first year allows remote work; afterward, relocation or residence within commuting distance is required.

Qualifications

• Master's degree with 10+ years of relevant experience or Bachelor's degree with 15+ years in engineering, engineering management, construction management, or related field.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering or design-management teams on large industrial or government programs.
• Proven track record overseeing design through procurement, construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
• Experience resolving complex design, construction, and interface issues while ensuring compliance with codes and standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary engineering, design-management, and technical-support activities across the program.
• Establish engineering-management procedures, technical-review workflows, responsibilities, priorities, and performance expectations.
• Direct engineering managers, discipline leads, engineering technicians, consultants, and other assigned technical personnel.
• Coordinate multiple engineering disciplines to ensure complete, constructible, and compliant designs.

Skills

Leadership

Engineering management

Construction management

Multidisciplinary coordination

Design reviews

Regulatory compliance

Education

Master's degree

Bachelor's degree

Job description

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Job Description:

Parsons is seeking an experienced Deputy for Technical Services to support a major program and construction management team delivering a large, complex industrial infrastructure project.

Reporting to the Project Manager, the Deputy for Technical Services will lead multidisciplinary engineering, design management, and technical support activities throughout design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout. The selected candidate will coordinate technical requirements, manage design reviews, resolve engineering issues, and ensure that technical deliverables comply with project requirements, applicable codes and standards, and Client expectations.

This position is based near Little Rock, Arkansas and is part of a 4-5 year contract. During the first year, remote work is permitted. After the first year, the selected candidate will be required to either reside within commuting distance of Little Rock, AR or be willing to relocate to the area.

Periodic travel and coordination with program leadership, Client representatives, contractors, consultants, equipment suppliers, and on-site personnel may be required.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead multidisciplinary engineering, design-management, and technical-support activities across the program.
• Establish engineering-management procedures, technical-review workflows, responsibilities, priorities, and performance expectations.
• Direct engineering managers, discipline leads, engineering technicians, consultants, and other assigned technical personnel.
• Coordinate civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, piping, electrical, controls, process, utility, environmental, fire-protection, and other engineering disciplines.
• Review and coordinate design criteria, calculations, drawings, specifications, studies, reports, technical memoranda, and vendor information.
• Lead multidisciplinary design, constructability, operability, maintainability, safety, value-engineering, and lifecycle reviews.
• Ensure designs are complete, coordinated, constructible, testable, maintainable, and compliant with contractual and regulatory requirements.
• Identify and resolve design deficiencies, technical conflicts, scope gaps, interface issues, and constructability concerns.
• Oversee technical reviews of requests for information, contractor submittals, shop drawings, substitutions, deviations, and design changes.
• Evaluate technical alternatives and communicate potential impacts on safety, quality, cost, schedule, commissioning, and operations.
• Coordinate engineering support during procurement, construction, field investigations, inspections, testing, commissioning, startup, and turnover.
• Work with Project Controls to monitor engineering deliverables, review durations, required decisions, technical milestones, and schedule risks.
• Coordinate with Quality and Safety personnel regarding technical compliance, nonconformances, corrective actions, hazard reduction, and design-related risks.
• Ensure commissioning, testing, startup, operational-readiness, and turnover requirements are incorporated into project designs and technical deliverables.
• Maintain technical decision records and coordinate with Document Control to ensure revisions, approvals, and final engineering records are complete and traceable.
• Prepare technical status reports, risk summaries, decision papers, recommendations, and executive-level briefings.
• Represent Technical Services during Client meetings, contractor meetings, design reviews, risk workshops, readiness reviews, and other assigned forums.
• Promote technical rigor, accountability, collaboration, timely decision-making, and continuous improvement.
• Work remotely during the first year, with the expectation of residing within commuting distance of Little Rock, Arkansas, or relocating to the area thereafter.
• Support periodic travel and coordination with program leadership, Client representatives, contractors, consultants, equipment suppliers, and on-site personnel.

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• Master's degree and at least 10 years of relevant experience, or a bachelor's degree and at least 15 years of relevant experience in engineering, engineering management, construction management, or a related field.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering or design-management teams on a large industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, Federal, or government program.
• Demonstrated experience managing technical activities through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
• Experience resolving complex design, construction, eq