Design Manager

Parsons are looking for a highly experienced Design Manager to join their team! Within the Planning & Design Management stream and reporting to the Director of Infrastructure Planning & Design, the Design Manager will manage & coordinate the delivery of multi-disciplinary design across assigned projects, packages or asset scopes in accordance with brief, standards, budgets and delivery programs.

What You'll Be Doing;

• Support the Senior Management and Senior Design Manager in the day-to-day management, coordination, and assurance of design delivery across all project stages.

• Coordinate design consultants and technical teams to ensure compliant, integrated, and high-quality design outputs.

• Review and monitor design submissions for quality, completeness, coordination, and alignment with project requirements prior to approvals.

• Support the resolution of design clashes, technical queries, constructability issues, and cross-disciplinary coordination matters.

• Maintain design trackers, action logs, registers, approval workflows, and technical records to support effective governance and reporting.

• Apply standardized design management templates, tools, methodologies, and reporting procedures across assigned projects and monitor design progress against agreed milestones, schedules, and stage gate deliverables.

• Coordinate interfaces between disciplines, infrastructure systems, assets, consultants, stakeholders, and delivery teams to ensure integrated outcomes.

• Identify, track, and support mitigation of design-related risks, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies.

• Liaise with internal stakeholders, consultants, support functions, and project teams to support timely reviews, approvals, and decision-making.

• Ensure accurate, timely, and consistent communication of design information across all stakeholders.

• Bachelor s degree in engineering, or related discipline.

• 10 years experience in design coordination or design management roles.

• Experience working with multi-di design consultants.

• Good understanding of design development stages and coordination requirements.

• Strong organizational, communication and stakeholder coordination skills