Design Manager – Infrastructure

About the role

Parsons is seeking an experienced Design Manager to lead multi‑disciplinary infrastructure design across assigned projects. Reporting to the Director of Infrastructure Planning & Design, you will ensure design delivery meets brief, standards, budgets and programme timelines.

Key responsibilities

• Support senior management and the Senior Design Manager in day‑to‑day design coordination and assurance.
• Coordinate design consultants and technical teams to produce compliant, integrated, high‑quality outputs.
• Review design submissions for quality, completeness and alignment with project requirements before approval.
• Assist in resolving design clashes, technical queries, constructability issues and cross‑disciplinary coordination matters.
• Maintain design trackers, action logs, registers, approval workflows and technical records for governance and reporting.
• Apply standardized design management templates, tools and methodologies, monitoring progress against milestones and stage‑gate deliverables.
• Coordinate interfaces between disciplines, infrastructure systems, assets, consultants, stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Identify, track and mitigate design‑related risks, assumptions, constraints and dependencies.
• Liaise with internal stakeholders, consultants and project teams to support timely reviews and decision‑making.
• Ensure accurate, timely communication of design information to all stakeholders.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related discipline.
• At least 10 years of experience in design coordination or design management.
• Proven ability to manage multi‑disciplinary infrastructure design projects.
• Experience working with senior management and cross‑functional teams.

Required skills

• Design coordination
• Design management
• Stakeholder coordination