Senior Design Manager - Project Delivery

Senior Design Manager – Project Delivery in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a senior civil engineering opportunity for an experienced professional capable of directing multidisciplinary design activities from initial concept through construction completion.
Parsons Corporation is hiring a design leader to establish delivery strategies, manage consultants and contractors, maintain technical alignment, and ensure that project designs meet safety, quality, programme, budget, and regulatory objectives.

Job Details:

Location:

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Industry: Civil Engineering
Function:
Design
Job Type: Full‑time
General

Experience:

Minimum 15 years

• Support development and implementation of the project design strategy from concept through completion.
• Provide technical leadership and design guidance during construction.
• Oversee design work produced by consultants, contractors, and specialist suppliers.
• Confirm that design activities comply with approved safety, quality, and technical requirements.
• Review and approve multidisciplinary drawings, specifications, reports, calculations, and technical submissions.
• Verify compliance with project requirements, applicable codes, authority standards, and regulatory approvals.
• Coordinate architectural, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and specialist design disciplines.
• Resolve design issues affecting construction quality, programme performance, productivity, or delivery.
• Work closely with project managers, directors, engineers, and discipline leads.
• Coordinate design schedules and interfaces involving clients, third‑party consultants, contractors, and local stakeholders.
• Integrate competing design requirements and conflicting project elements into coordinated delivery plans.
• Identify cross‑discipline interfaces and ensure responsibilities are clearly assigned.
• Support preparation of the Project Design Management Plan.
• Contribute to the Project Execution Plan and Quality Assurance‑Quality Control Plan.
• Develop and administer project design briefs, submission requirements, deliverables, and performance expectations.
• Establish key performance indicators for design teams and consultants.
• Monitor consultant performance against quality, schedule, scope, budget, and coordination targets.
• Lead or support technical reviews, design workshops, and multidisciplinary coordination meetings.
• Administer value management and value engineering activities.
• Ensure design solutions consider constructability, environmental performance, sustainability, maintainability, and lifecycle value.
• Review proposed design changes and assess their effects on cost, programme, quality, and scope.
• Coordinate with project engineers and discipline leads to develop design budgets and schedules.
• Monitor design expenditure, resource utilization, change orders, and forecast completion dates.
• Develop corrective action plans for potential cost overruns, delays, or significant scope changes.
• Track design risks, approvals, dependencies, and critical decisions.
• Escalate unresolved technical and programme issues to senior management.
• Monitor progress against major design milestones.
• Prepare regular design status reports, dashboards, correspondence, and executive presentations.
• Report design progress, cost impacts, schedule conditions, and emerging risks.
• Establish weekly design management meetings.
• Review current performance and assign clear actions, responsibilities, and completion dates.
• Mentor design managers, engineers, and technical professionals.
• Promote consistent design standards, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
• Maintain effective relationships with international consultants and multidisciplinary delivery teams.
• Perform other responsibilities associated with senior design management.

• Bachelor's degree in architecture, engineering, or a related technical or business discipline.
• Minimum 15 years of engineering, architecture, or design management experience.
• At least 10 years of direct experience in construction and design execution environments.
• Proven experience supporting large‑scale infrastructure, development, or construction programs.
• Strong capability in multidisciplinary design management.
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