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Job Description:
Parsons are recruiting for a highly experienced Senior Design Manager to join their team!
Within the Planning stream and reporting to the Director of Infrastructure Planning & Design, the Senior Design Manager provides strategic, technical, and managerial leadership for the delivery of multi-disciplinary design across major programs, districts, precincts, and infrastructure asset portfolios. The role holds end-to-end accountability for design governance, technical assurance, consultant performance, and integrated design delivery from early strategic planning through to construction documentation.
What You'll Be Doing;
- Lead strategic, technical, and managerial oversight for the delivery of multi-disciplinary design across major programs, districts, precincts, and infrastructure asset portfolios.
- Provide end-to-end accountability for design governance, technical assurance, consultant performance, and integrated design delivery across all stages.
- Oversee design development from Strategic Planning and Concept Design through Schematic Design, Detailed Design, and Construction Documentation.
- Act as a senior technical lead within the team, influencing design strategy, delivery methodologies, standards application, and engineering best practices.
- Ensure alignment between Development, Projects, and other Support Functions and stakeholder requirements to support program and project objectives.
- Lead and direct multi-disciplinary consultants and design teams, establishing technical priorities, quality expectations, and coordinated delivery approaches with a clear integrated programme.
- Review, challenge, and endorse technical submissions and consultant deliverables to support client governance and approval processes.
- Define design delivery strategies, sequencing, phasing, and resource planning at program and portfolio level.
- Manage complex design interfaces across disciplines, infrastructure systems, assets, packages, and delivery teams to ensure fully coordinated outcomes.
- Support value engineering, optimisation initiatives, and design efficiency improvements while maintaining technical integrity and delivery objectives and embed lessons learned, innovation, and best practice design management principles.
What Required Skills You'll Bring;
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or related discipline.
- 15+ Years’ experience in multi-disciplinary design management on large, complex developments.
- Proven experience acting as a senior technical lead and managing multiple consultants and infrastructure packages.
- Strong experience in design governance, assurance, and complex interface management.
- Demonstrated leadership in senior roles.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or related discipline
- 15+ years' experience in multi-disciplinary design management on large, complex developments
- Proven experience acting as a senior technical lead and managing multiple consultants and infrastructure packages
- Strong experience in design governance, assurance, and complex interface management
- Demonstrated leadership in senior roles
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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.
