Parsons are looking for a highly experienced Design Manager to join their team! Within the Planning & Design Management stream and reporting to the Director of Infrastructure Planning & Design, the Design Manager will manage & coordinate the delivery of multi-disciplinary design across assigned projects, packages or asset scopes in accordance with brief, standards, budgets and delivery programs.
What You'll Be Doing;
- Support the Senior Management and Senior Design Manager in the day-to-day management, coordination, and assurance of design delivery across all project stages.
- Coordinate design consultants and technical teams to ensure compliant, integrated, and high-quality design outputs.
- Review and monitor design submissions for quality, completeness, coordination, and alignment with project requirements prior to approvals.
- Support the resolution of design clashes, technical queries, constructability issues, and cross-disciplinary coordination matters.
- Maintain design trackers, action logs, registers, approval workflows, and technical records to support effective governance and reporting.
- Apply standardized design management templates, tools, methodologies, and reporting procedures across assigned projects and monitor design progress against agreed milestones, schedules, and stage gate deliverables.
- Coordinate interfaces between disciplines, infrastructure systems, assets, consultants, stakeholders, and delivery teams to ensure integrated outcomes.
- Identify, track, and support mitigation of design-related risks, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies.
- Liaise with internal stakeholders, consultants, support functions, and project teams to support timely reviews, approvals, and decision-making.
- Ensure accurate, timely, and consistent communication of design information across all stakeholders.
Desired Candidate Profile
What Required Skills You'll Bring;
- Bachelor s degree in engineering, or related discipline.
- 10 years experience in design coordination or design management roles.
- Experience working with multi-di design consultants.
- Good understanding of design development stages and coordination requirements.
- Strong organizational, communication and stakeholder coordination skills