Senior Interface Lead - Airport Integration

Senior Interface Lead
- Airport Integration Job Snapshot Role:
Senior Interface Lead
- Airport Integration

Location:

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Industry: Airlines/Aviation Function:
Systems Implementation/Integration

Experience:

Minimum 15 years Job Type: Full-time

Position Overview Parsons is hiring a Senior Interface Lead
- Airport Integration in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for a major development within the Airlines/Aviation industry. The lead will establish and govern the interface-management strategy connecting airport buildings, airfield infrastructure, utilities, transport links, technology, security, and operational systems. This senior role requires extensive experience coordinating multidisciplinary designs, contractors, consultants, and external authorities. The successful candidate will maintain interface registers, resolve scope gaps and technical conflicts, and ensure critical connections are formally closed before testing, operational readiness, and handover.

Country:
Saudi Arabia City:
Riyadh Industry: Airlines/Aviation Function:
Systems Implementation/Integration Salary:  SAR per month Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in Riyadh; please confirm the final offer with the employer. Gender: Any Candidate Nationality:
Any Job Type: Full-time Role Context Airport developments depend on hundreds of physical, technical, contractual, and operational interfaces. A missed connection between buildings, utilities, airfield systems, communications, security, or airport operations can create design conflicts, construction delays, additional cost, and commissioning failures. The Senior Interface Lead will provide a single governance structure for these dependencies. Clear ownership, disciplined tracking, and early resolution will help protect project milestones and ensure that landside, airside, and operational assets function as one integrated airport.

• Develop and implement the airport-program interface-management strategy.
• Establish procedures, workflows, tools, reporting methods, and escalation routes.
• Prepare and maintain the Interface Management Plan.
• Define interface categories, responsibilities, deliverables, and closure requirements.
• Lead interface engineers and guide project stakeholders in consistent working practices.
• Ensure interfaces are identified, recorded, assigned, tracked, and formally closed.
• Coordinate civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, and electrical interfaces.
• Manage connections involving ICT, ELV, airfield systems, airfield ground lighting, utilities, security, and specialist airport technology.
• Identify design conflicts, scope gaps, unclear responsibilities, and technical dependencies.
• Facilitate workshops to resolve complex multidisciplinary interface matters.
• Verify alignment of design solutions across disciplines and delivery packages.
• Manage interfaces involving terminals, concourses, runways, taxiways, aircraft stands, aprons, and cargo facilities.
• Coordinate roads, external infrastructure, utility networks, and airport operational systems.
• Ensure effective integration between airside and landside assets.
• Align buildings, infrastructure, technology, and operations in preparation for airport opening.
• Act as the central interface contact for the client and airport operator.
• Coordinate delivery partners, consultants, contractors, subcontractors, utility providers, suppliers, and authorities.
• Establish effective communication and information-exchange channels.
• Lead interface-coordination meetings and monitor resulting actions.
• Develop and maintain interface registers, matrices, responsibility charts, and trackers.
• Record requirements, ownership, target dates, decisions, dependencies, and closure status.
• Identify critical interfaces affecting schedule, cost, quality, safety, or operational readiness.
• Prepare dashboards and status reports for project leadership.
• Escalate unresolved risks with clear impact assessments and mitigation recommendations.
• Review design submissions from an interface and integration perspective.
• Confirm that contractor activities are coordinated across shared work areas and systems.
• Support resolution of site interfaces, requests for information, technical queries, and design changes.
• Coordinate temporary works, construction sequencing, logistics, access, and shared facilities.
• Support BIM-based coordination and digital engineering workflows.
• Review federated models and coordinate multidisciplinary clash detection.
• Promote accurate interface information within common data environments and project information systems.
• Lead interface-risk assessments and support constructability reviews.
• Capture lessons learned and improve interface-management practices.
• Prepare meeting records, action trackers, technical agreements, and formal reports.
• Maintain auditable records of decisions, approvals, and interface closure evidence.
• Support testing, commissioning, operational-readiness, and handover documentation.
• Verify formal closure of all critical interfaces before project…