Design Manager - Infrastructure Delivery

Design Manager
- Infrastructure Delivery Job Snapshot

Role:
Design Manager
- Infrastructure Delivery

Location:

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Industry: Construction

Function:
Design

Experience:

Minimum 10 years

Job Type: Full-time

Position Overview Design Manager
- Infrastructure Delivery in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a Construction opportunity focused on multidisciplinary design management, consultant coordination, technical assurance, design governance, and integrated infrastructure delivery across complex project packages and asset scopes. Parsons is hiring an experienced design professional to coordinate consultants, monitor design submissions, resolve technical interfaces, control approvals, and ensure design outputs meet project briefs, standards, budgets, schedules, and stage-gate requirements.

Country:
Saudi Arabia

City:
Riyadh

Industry: Construction

Function:
Design

Salary:  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

The Design Manager will operate within the Planning and Design Management stream, supporting senior leadership in the controlled delivery of multidisciplinary infrastructure design across assigned projects, packages, and asset scopes. The role will connect design consultants, technical disciplines, project teams, stakeholders, and delivery functions so information moves through review and approval processes without losing coordination, quality, or schedule alignment. Strong design governance will be essential to identifying clashes, technical gaps, dependencies, and approval risks before they affect downstream procurement or construction.

• Manage and coordinate multidisciplinary design delivery across assigned infrastructure projects and packages.
• Support senior management and the Senior Design Manager with day-to-day design coordination and assurance activities.
• Coordinate design consultants and internal technical teams throughout project development.
• Review design submissions for completeness, quality, coordination, and compliance with project requirements.
• Verify alignment of design outputs with approved briefs, technical standards, budgets, and delivery programs.
• Monitor consultant performance against agreed design milestones and submission dates.
• Coordinate design progress through applicable stage-gate and approval processes.
• Identify design gaps, inconsistencies, and missing information before submissions proceed for approval.
• Support resolution of multidisciplinary design clashes and technical coordination issues.
• Coordinate responses to design-related Technical Queries and clarification requests.
• Work with consultants and project teams to resolve constructability issues identified during design development.
• Coordinate interfaces between Civil, Structural, Architectural, MEP, Utilities, Mobility, Landscape, and other relevant disciplines.
• Ensure technical interfaces between infrastructure systems and asset packages are clearly identified and managed.
• Maintain visibility of dependencies between consultants, disciplines, stakeholders, and delivery teams.
• Support integration of design requirements across multiple assets and infrastructure packages.
• Maintain design trackers, action logs, registers, comment schedules, and approval workflows.
• Keep accurate technical records to support project governance and auditability.
• Apply standardized design management templates, methodologies, and reporting procedures.
• Monitor design status against approved schedules and planned deliverables.
• Coordinate design review periods and ensure comments are issued within required timelines.
• Track consultant responses to review comments through closure.
• Maintain clear records of technical decisions, approvals, outstanding actions, and unresolved issues.
• Identify design-related risks, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies.
• Support development and implementation of mitigation actions for emerging design risks.
• Escalate unresolved technical or schedule concerns to senior design leadership when appropriate.
• Liaise with Planning and Project Controls teams where design progress may affect project milestones.
• Support timely decision-making by ensuring relevant technical information is available to stakeholders.
• Coordinate internal reviews with engineering, delivery, construction, and support functions.
• Facilitate design coordination meetings, technical workshops, and progress reviews.
• Prepare design status information for weekly and monthly reporting.
• Support management of approval workflows for consultant and technical submissions.
• Ensure design revisions are clearly communicated to all affected disciplines and project teams.
• Coordinate changes arising from design reviews, stakeholder comments, or technical requirements.
• Monitor whether approved changes have been incorporated into subsequent design deliverables.
• Support constructability reviews and coordination with delivery teams before construction…