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Job Description:
Role Purpose
Support the Planning Director in translating the city-wide Digital Infrastructure Masterplan into phased implementation plans, covering fixed fiber, mobile networks, data centers, smart systems, MMRs/POPs, duct corridors, and district connectivity requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day planning coordination for digital infrastructure packages, including planning baselines, phasing logic, sequencing, dependencies, critical interfaces, constructability inputs, co-build opportunities, and alignment with district CMP/DMP submissions.
- Lead demand forecasting and capacity planning inputs, including fiber demand, mobile coverage needs, data center/edge capacity, smart city use cases, resilience requirements, spare capacity, growth assumptions, and short-/mid-/long-term planning horizons.
- Coordinate planning interfaces with design, construction, utilities, authorities, operators, and consultants, including SEC, NWC, district cooling, CST, MOMRAH, SDAIA, MNOs, TowerCo, FiberCo, data center operators, and external EPC/design consultants.
- Review and validate digital infrastructure planning submissions, including fiber routes, tower siting plans, MMR/POP locations, duct-bank layouts, right-of-way requirements, utility dependencies, access corridors, bypass routes, redundancy paths, and commissioning/handover planning inputs.
- Track progress against approved planning baselines and report variances, including planning risks, schedule impacts, change requests, planning deviations, authority dependencies, delayed inputs, and mitigation actions for escalation to the Planning Director.
- Support planning governance and review forums, including preparing planning dashboards, issue logs, risk registers, decision papers, steering committee inputs, technical review comments, and planning approval recommendations.
- Ensure planning compliance with applicable standards and project requirements, including CST, SBC, MOMRAH right-of-way requirements, cybersecurity/resilience requirements, sustainability targets, operational readiness, O&M access, maintainability, and future scalability.
- Support operational readiness and transition planning, ensuring that commissioning, integrated system testing, cutover, training, spares, O&M access, as-built documentation, and phased handover requirements are embedded into the planning schedule.
- Lead and mentor planning engineers/coordinators within the digital infrastructure planning team, promote planning best practices, maintain planning trackers, ensure quality of outputs, and support coordination between planning, design, construction, and external consultants.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, ICT, Telecoms, Digital Infrastructure, Urban/Infrastructure Planning, or Project Management.
- Minimum 15+ years’ experience in ICT, telecoms, smart city, data center, utilities, or critical infrastructure planning, preferably on city-wide, giga-project, mixed-use, campus, or major infrastructure programs.
- Strong experience in digital infrastructure planning, including phased implementation plans, fiber/mobile/DC/smart systems, demand forecasting, capacity modelling, district connectivity, MMR/POP planning, duct corridors, and right-of-way coordination.
- Proven coordination experience across design, construction, utilities, authorities, consultants, operators, and contractors, including SEC, NWC, district cooling, CST/MOMRAH/SDAIA, MNOs, TowerCo, FiberCo, and data center operators.
- Strong planning control and reporting capabilities, including baseline tracking, phasing adjustments, change requests, risk registers.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, ICT, Telecoms, Digital Infrastructure, Urban/Infrastructure Planning, or Project Management
- Minimum 15+ years' experience in ICT, telecoms, smart city, data center, utilities, or critical infrastructure planning on large city-wide or giga-projects
- Strong experience in digital infrastructure planning: phased implementation, fiber/mobile/DC/smart systems, demand forecasting, capacity modelling, MMR/POP and duct corridor planning
- Proven coordination experience with design, construction, utilities, authorities, consultants, operators, and contractors (e.g., SEC, NWC, CST/MOMRAH/SDAIA, MNOs, TowerCo, FiberCo, data center operators)
- Strong planning control and reporting capabilities including baseline tracking, phasing adjustments, change requests, and risk registers
- Experience leading and mentoring planning engineers/coordinators and maintaining planning trackers and quality outputs
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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.
