Senior Program Manager​/Engineering Manager

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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.

• 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,…