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Job Description:
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.
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
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or related discipline
- 10 years' experience in design coordination or design management roles
- Experience working with multi-disciplinary design consultants
- Good understanding of design development stages and coordination requirements
- Strong organizational, communication and stakeholder coordination skills
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are framed as a major value driver, with an ESOP alongside a 401(k) match and additional stock-purchase options contributing meaningfully to total rewards. This structure is positioned as especially attractive for employees who value long-term wealth-building over immediate cash.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad and choice-rich, with multiple plan types (PPO, HDHP, and some HMO networks) plus dental, vision, EAP, and wellness resources. The availability of different plan designs and national-carrier coverage supports varied employee needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are portrayed as competitive, including PTO, holidays, flexible schedules such as a 9/80 option for eligible roles, and floating holidays in the U.S. Paid parental leave of 160 hours is also highlighted as a meaningful component of the overall package.
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What We Do
Parsons is a digitally enabled solutions provider with a focus on making the world safer, smarter, healthier, more sustainable, and more connected. Founded in 1944, Parsons primarily serves the defense, security, and infrastructure markets. Uniquely qualified to deliver cyber/converged security, technology-based intellectual property, and other innovative services, the corporation delivers state-of-the-art solutions to federal, regional, and local government agencies as well as to private industrial customers worldwide. Parsons has a reputation for inclusion and diversity and has been named to the Ethisphere Institute’s list of World’s Most Ethical Companies for 10 consecutive years. Parsons facilitates a culture of innovation by encouraging collaboration among its employees and providing opportunities for career growth. With offices around the globe, people of varied talents and backgrounds, and a wide range of exciting projects, the possibilities at Parsons are endless. For more about Parsons, visit www.parsons.com. Mission: Delivering innovative infrastructure, defense, and security solutions to enable a more sustainable, safer, smarter, and more connected world.
