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Job Description:
Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Interface Manager to join our team!
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Develop and implement the interface management strategy and planning activities to ensure all system interface requirements are identified, managed, and delivered throughout the project lifecycle.
- Act as the primary focal point for interface work package contractors, designated interface contractors, suppliers, and stakeholders.
- Coordinate with key stakeholders to identify, define, and manage system interface requirements across all project disciplines.
- Lead and chair interface coordination meetings with contractors, suppliers, and stakeholders to facilitate interface resolution and project integration.
- Ensure interface-related deliverables comply with contractual requirements, project standards, and technical specifications.
- Identify and manage project system interfaces through workshops, reviews, and coordination activities with the client and project teams.
- Develop and maintain Interface Management Plans for work packages and system elements.
- Ensure system interface requirements are effectively tracked, monitored, and controlled throughout the project lifecycle.
- Perform impact assessments for interface requirements and design changes, and provide recommendations to support management decision-making.
- Coordinate stakeholder engagement and integration activities to achieve project objectives related to scope, schedule, budget, quality, sustainability, and operational readiness.
- Facilitate meetings with stakeholders and communicate interface issues, approvals, risks, and coordination requirements.
- Manage interface resolution activities and implement mitigation strategies to ensure interface conflicts are resolved in a timely manner.
- Prepare and maintain Interface Management Plans, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), and Detailed Interface Documents for system interfaces.
- Provide regular interface management reports, status updates, risk assessments, and mitigation plans to the client and project management teams.
- Manage contractors and subcontractors to ensure successful implementation and verification of interface requirements during construction, testing, and commissioning phases.
- Support procurement activities by providing interface management input to tender and contract documentation.
- Support Systems Integration Testing (SIT), Trial Running, and operational readiness activities to ensure all interfaces are validated prior to revenue service.
- Provide guidance, support, and training to interface management team members.
What Required Skills You’ll Bring:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or a related discipline.
- Minimum 15 years of relevant experience.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in a lead role on major infrastructure or heavy civil projects.
- Strong technical expertise in the design and construction of complex rail systems.
- Comprehensive knowledge of railway project design, construction management, systems integration, and stakeholder coordination.
- Strong knowledge of modern railway systems, including signaling systems and system interfaces.
- Experience developing and managing interface management processes, plans, and documentation on large-scale projects.
- Strong leadership, coordination, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate within multidisciplinary and multinational project environments.
What Desired Skills You’ll Bring:
- Arabic language skills.
- Experience on major metro, railway, transit, or transportation infrastructure projects.
- Knowledge of systems engineering, interface management, and systems integration best practices.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related discipline.
- Minimum 15 years of relevant experience.
- Minimum 5 years in a lead role on major infrastructure or heavy civil projects.
- Technical expertise in design and construction of complex rail systems.
- Comprehensive knowledge of railway project design, construction management, systems integration, and stakeholder coordination.
- Strong knowledge of modern railway systems, including signaling systems and system interfaces.
- Experience developing and managing interface management processes, plans, and documentation on large-scale projects.
- Strong leadership, coordination, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate within multidisciplinary and multinational project environments.
- Arabic language skills.
- Experience on major metro, railway, transit, or transportation infrastructure projects.
- Knowledge of systems engineering, interface management, and systems integration best practices.
Parsons Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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.
