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Job Description:
Are you ready to apply your project management expertise to complex urban development and infrastructure projects?
Parsons is seeking a talented Project Manager with extensive experience in project and design management to lead the successful delivery of urban development, master planning, infrastructure, road, and bridge projects. The role involves managing all project phases, from initiation and planning through design, execution, and closeout, ensuring delivery aligns with scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives.
The Project Manager will be responsible for managing project scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety, risk, resources, deliverables, and commercial performance. The role requires a strong leader who can coordinate multidisciplinary teams, maintain effective internal collaboration, and build productive relationships with clients, contractors, subconsultants, regulatory authorities, and other stakeholders.
What You'll Be Doing
- Manage projects from initiation through planning, design, execution, and closeout.
- Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary project teams, including internal staff, contractors, subconsultants, and technical specialists.
- Develop and manage project scope, budgets, schedules, execution plans, deliverables, and reporting requirements.
- Coordinate design activities, technical reviews, interfaces, approvals, and deliverable control.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, including potential delays, cost overruns, scope changes, and technical issues.
- Develop and implement corrective-action plans to address project risks and performance issues.
- Monitor project budgets, forecasts, commitments, financial status, and cost performance to control costs and prevent scope creep.
- Maintain effective communication with clients, project teams, contractors, subconsultants, regulatory authorities, and Company management.
- Coordinate with relevant authorities to support permits, approvals, regulatory compliance, and statutory requirements.
- Lead project-status meetings and monitor key milestones, costs, schedules, risks, issues, and deliverables.
- Support client relations, stakeholder engagement, regulatory coordination, and business-development activities.
- Ensure projects achieve successful technical, financial, commercial, safety, and quality outcomes.
- Promote accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement throughout project delivery.
- Support business development by identifying opportunities for additional services and maintaining strong client relationships.
- Review bid documents and support procurement and tendering activities as required.
What Required Skills You'll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, preferably Civil Engineering
- Minimum14 years of total professional experience, primarily in project management and design management.
- Experience managing complex urban development, master planning, infrastructure, roads, bridges, engineering, or construction projects.
- Demonstrated experience managing scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, safety, resources, contracts, and commercial performance.
- Strong experience in design coordination, technical reviews, interface management, deliverable control, and integration of design requirements into project execution.
- Proven ability to control costs, prevent scope creep, mitigate risks, and implement effective corrective actions.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver projects successfully from both technical and commercial perspectives.
- Strong internal team leadership and external client-management skills.
- Experience coordinating with regulatory authorities and ensuring compliance with applicable regulations, standards, permits, and approval requirements.
- Broad technical and business knowledge, with a strong understanding of project and design management principles.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, analytical, organizational, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
- Experience delivering major infrastructure projects in the UAE or GCC region.
- Familiarity with local authority requirements and approval processes.
- Professional registration and Parsons Project Manager Development certification may be required.
- PMP certification is preferred.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, preferably Civil Engineering
- Minimum 14 years of total professional experience, primarily in project management and design management
- Experience managing complex urban development, master planning, infrastructure, roads, bridges, engineering, or construction projects
- Experience managing scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, safety, resources, contracts, and commercial performance
- Strong experience in design coordination, technical reviews, interface management, deliverable control, and integration of design requirements
- Experience controlling costs, preventing scope creep, mitigating risks, and implementing corrective actions
- Ability to deliver projects successfully from technical and commercial perspectives
- Strong internal team leadership and external client-management skills
- Experience coordinating with regulatory authorities and ensuring compliance with regulations, standards, permits, and approvals
- Broad technical and business knowledge of project and design management principles
- Excellent written and verbal communication, analytical, organizational, negotiation, and interpersonal skills
- Experience delivering major infrastructure projects in the UAE or GCC region
- Familiarity with local authority requirements and approval processes
- Professional registration and Parsons Project Manager Development certification may be required
- PMP certification
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.
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