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Job Description:
Parsons is looking for an experience Senior Design Manager to join our team! In this role you will get to Serves as Lead Designer for all phases of a project. Provides technical guidance to project design and drafting personnel, and functions as liaison with client, suppliers, and contractors regarding design issues.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Coordinates execution of work assignments with respect to design approach, schedules, standards, budgets, and procedures to meet client scope of work requirements. Provides manpower estimates as required.
- Provides technical guidance to project design team in completing the most complex and difficult designs and layouts for complete systems and components of a project. Assignments typically involve design elements for which there may be no clearly established precedents and require anticipation of problems at the outset in order to provide appropriate solutions.
- Ensures compliance with required specifications, tolerances, safety factors, and industry codes, as well as client requirements and company standards.
- Performs specialized design computations and analysis within a given discipline.
- Performs interdisciplinary reviews and provides coordination of data to ensure a compatible design.
- Provides direction to a team of checking personnel, ensuring the mathematical accuracy of the drawings produced. Participates in checking orthographic (2D) and isometric (3D) drawings prepared by others.
- Understands and applies commonly used company design standards and methods. Provides input to the establishment or revision of guidelines and standards.
- Collaborates with Engineers and other engineering disciplines to ensure quality of design.
- Reviews supplier data and supplier/manufacturer drawings, as required.
- May train lower-level Designers in various procedures.
What Required Skills You'll Bring:
- Bachelor's degree in Architectural or Engineering (or related field) with a strong background in managing the technical design process across multiple work packages.
- 10+ years of related work experience, including supervisory/managerial experience
- Robust personality who is able to manage senior stakeholders (internal and external) as well as leading a number of concurrent deliverables and deadlines
- Able to proactively preempt issues as well as being adept in quick problem solving / providing innovative solutions
- Independently taking the lead for all deliverables within their scope of work
- Significant managerial experience across a large team of Engineers, Designers, and technical support personnel - both internal and external - directing work involving complex technical situations
- Experience across multiple disciplines
What Desired Skills You'll Bring:
- Able to thrive in a fast paced environment.
- Professional Engineer registration with active membership in a professional engineering society may be required
- Excellent written and oral communications skills - comfortable presenting technical presentations / solutions to the client
- Thorough knowledge of industry practices and regulations are required
- Must also possess a thorough knowledge of current technology and the capabilities and efficiencies of specific engineering software for use in completing engineering assignments.
- Requirements include knowledge of the capabilities and efficiencies of utilizing specific computer software to complete design assignments.
- Also requires the ability to perform in a lead capacity on a project.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, or a related field
- 10 or more years of related work experience
- Supervisory or managerial experience
- Experience managing the technical design process across multiple work packages
- Ability to manage senior internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to lead concurrent deliverables and deadlines
- Experience leading complex technical design situations and providing innovative solutions
- Significant management experience leading large teams of engineers, designers, and technical support personnel
- Experience across multiple disciplines
- Excellent written, oral, and technical presentation communication skills
- Thorough knowledge of industry practices and regulations
- Knowledge of engineering design software capabilities and efficiencies
- Ability to lead project design deliverables
- Professional Engineer registration and active membership in a professional engineering society
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.
