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Job Description:
Parsons is looking for an experienced Project Director to lead the planning, design, and engineering delivery of major development projects. In this role, you will provide strategic and technical leadership across master planning, infrastructure, buildings, and multidisciplinary engineering, ensuring projects meet client objectives, quality standards, schedules, budgets, and regulatory requirements.
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead the delivery of master planning, infrastructure, building design, and multidisciplinary engineering services.
- Manage multidisciplinary teams across architecture, urban planning, civil, structural, utilities, transportation, MEP, landscape, and specialist disciplines.
- Oversee projects from master planning and concept design through detailed design, tender documentation, and construction support.
- Ensure effective integration of buildings, infrastructure, utilities, mobility, public realm, and site-wide systems.
- Establish project governance, design strategies, technical standards, schedules, budgets, and delivery priorities.
- Lead design reviews, value engineering, constructability assessments, technical coordination, and resolution of key design issues.
- Ensure compliance with applicable codes, standards, authority requirements, sustainability objectives, and client requirements.
- Manage design consultants and specialist subconsultants, ensuring quality, schedule, and technical performance.
- Build strong relationships with clients, developers, authorities, consultants, and key stakeholders.
- Promote BIM, GIS, digital engineering, and data-driven design coordination across the project.
- Identify and manage design risks, interfaces, changes, and dependencies throughout the project lifecycle.
- Lead, mentor, and develop project and design teams, promoting a collaborative and high-performance culture.
What Required Skills You'll Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, Urban Planning, or a related discipline.
- 20+ years of experience in major master planning, infrastructure, building, or large-scale development projects.
- Proven experience as a Project Director, Design Director, Engineering Director, or equivalent senior leadership role.
- Strong experience managing multidisciplinary teams across master planning, architecture, infrastructure, utilities, transportation, and building engineering.
- Comprehensive understanding of the design lifecycle from concept through detailed design, tender, and construction support.
- Strong knowledge of design management, technical governance, project controls, risk, commercial management, and stakeholder coordination.
- Excellent leadership, client management, communication, negotiation, and decision-making skills.
What Desired Skills You'll Bring
- Experience delivering major master-planned communities, mixed-use developments, infrastructure programs, or complex building portfolios in United Arab Emirates or the Middle East.
- Knowledge of regional planning, authority approvals, design codes, and utility requirements.
- Experience integrating master planning, buildings, infrastructure, transportation, utilities, and public realm.
- Professional certification such as PMP, PE, CEng, RIBA, or equivalent is preferred.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, Urban Planning, or a related discipline
- 20+ years of experience in major master planning, infrastructure, building, or large-scale development projects
- Experience as a Project Director, Design Director, Engineering Director, or equivalent senior leadership role
- Experience managing multidisciplinary teams across master planning, architecture, infrastructure, utilities, transportation, and building engineering
- Understanding of the design lifecycle from concept through detailed design, tender, and construction support
- Knowledge of design management, technical governance, project controls, risk, commercial management, and stakeholder coordination
- Leadership, client management, communication, negotiation, and decision-making skills
- Experience delivering major master-planned communities, mixed-use developments, infrastructure programs, or complex building portfolios in the UAE or Middle East
- Knowledge of regional planning, authority approvals, design codes, and utility requirements
- Experience integrating master planning, buildings, infrastructure, transportation, utilities, and public realm
- Professional certification such as PMP, PE, CEng, RIBA, or equivalent
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.
