Senior Design Manager (Infrastructure & Land Development)

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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Design Manager to join our team! In this role, you will lead design teams responsible for delivering complex infrastructure and land development projects across Dubai and the wider region.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Lead Design Managers and multidisciplinary teams of designers and BIM engineers in the delivery of complex land development projects.
• Liaise with clients and relevant authorities to manage large and medium-sized projects across the private and public sectors.
• Provide design direction and coordinate multidisciplinary design teams, including roads, wet and dry utilities, master planning, landscape, structural and architectural design disciplines.
• Mentor and develop Design Managers and Design Leads, ensuring they are trained in design management principles.
• Coordinate and collaborate with Project Managers and Project Directors on all design-related activities, including schedule preparation, technical proposals and financial planning.

What Required Skills You’ll Bring:

• Typically 10+ years of related professional experience, including supervisory and managerial responsibilities.
• Proven ability to perform effectively in a supervisory or managerial capacity.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Thorough knowledge of current engineering technologies, industry practices and applicable regulations.
• Strong understanding of the capabilities and efficiencies of engineering techniques and technologies relevant to design assignments.

What Desired Skills You’ll Bring:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong report-writing and technical proposal preparation skills.
• Knowledge of local authority standards, regulations and procedures.
• Experience managing complex greenfield and brownfield development projects.

Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.

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