Design Manager

Role overview

Design leadership and delivery

• Lead integration of infrastructure, master planning, urban planning and design, public realm, landscape, transportation, utilities, architecture, sustainability, and engineering.
• Manage design interfaces and ensure packages are coordinated, consistent, and aligned with project objectives.
• Drive technical excellence through design reviews, technical assurance, and quality control; ensure compliance with project requirements, standards, authority regulations, and best practices.
• Lead coordination workshops and technical reviews to identify and resolve conflicts, risks, and interface issues.
• Oversee design delivery from concept through detailed design and construction support, ensuring quality, completeness, and constructability.
• Manage design schedules, milestones, critical dependencies, and design sequencing.

Infrastructure and project coordination

• Integrate roads, utilities, water, wastewater, stormwater, irrigation, power, telecommunications, smart city systems, and public realm infrastructure with planning and urban design objectives.
• Coordinate with project management, commercial, procurement, construction, and stakeholder teams.
• Monitor consultant performance and accountability for quality, coordination, and timely delivery.
• Identify and mitigate technical, coordination, and delivery risks; promote collaboration and integrated project outcomes.
• Build client, consultant, authority, and cross-functional relationships and facilitate timely decision-making.

Required qualifications and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field from a recognized university.
• Experience delivering large-scale master-planned developments, urban environments, infrastructure programmes, and mixed-use projects.
• Hands-on integration of engineering or technical aspects with procurement and construction activities.
• Proven management capability and ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams in complex project environments.
• Excellent knowledge of infrastructure design and integration with building design and landscape.
• Strong multidisciplinary design management and technical integration capabilities; thorough understanding of design sequencing, project delivery, and infrastructure development.
• Excellent stakeholder-management, interpersonal, written, presentation, and oral communication skills.

Desired qualifications and knowledge

• Ability to meet Parsons’ project management certification requirements where applicable.
• Thorough knowledge of current industry practices and regulations, and knowledge of technology used effectively on projects.
• Problem-solving, conflict-resolution, and decision-making abilities.

Benefits

• Parsons describes offerings that may include financial wellness support, retirement plans, paid time off, flexible holidays, career development, training, education, mentorship, veteran support, wellness programmes, and health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Benefits vary by the Parsons location.