Interface Manager

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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Interface Manager to join our team!

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Develop and implement the interface management strategy and planning activities to ensure all system interface requirements are identified, managed, and delivered throughout the project lifecycle.
• Act as the primary focal point for interface work package contractors, designated interface contractors, suppliers, and stakeholders.
• Coordinate with key stakeholders to identify, define, and manage system interface requirements across all project disciplines.
• Lead and chair interface coordination meetings with contractors, suppliers, and stakeholders to facilitate interface resolution and project integration.
• Ensure interface-related deliverables comply with contractual requirements, project standards, and technical specifications.
• Identify and manage project system interfaces through workshops, reviews, and coordination activities with the client and project teams.
• Develop and maintain Interface Management Plans for work packages and system elements.
• Ensure system interface requirements are effectively tracked, monitored, and controlled throughout the project lifecycle.
• Perform impact assessments for interface requirements and design changes, and provide recommendations to support management decision-making.
• Coordinate stakeholder engagement and integration activities to achieve project objectives related to scope, schedule, budget, quality, sustainability, and operational readiness.
• Facilitate meetings with stakeholders and communicate interface issues, approvals, risks, and coordination requirements.
• Manage interface resolution activities and implement mitigation strategies to ensure interface conflicts are resolved in a timely manner.
• Prepare and maintain Interface Management Plans, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), and Detailed Interface Documents for system interfaces.
• Provide regular interface management reports, status updates, risk assessments, and mitigation plans to the client and project management teams.
• Manage contractors and subcontractors to ensure successful implementation and verification of interface requirements during construction, testing, and commissioning phases.
• Support procurement activities by providing interface management input to tender and contract documentation.
• Support Systems Integration Testing (SIT), Trial Running, and operational readiness activities to ensure all interfaces are validated prior to revenue service.
• Provide guidance, support, and training to interface management team members.

What Required Skills You’ll Bring:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or a related discipline.
• Minimum 15 years of relevant experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a lead role on major infrastructure or heavy civil projects.
• Strong technical expertise in the design and construction of complex rail systems.
• Comprehensive knowledge of railway project design, construction management, systems integration, and stakeholder coordination.
• Strong knowledge of modern railway systems, including signaling systems and system interfaces.
• Experience developing and managing interface management processes, plans, and documentation on large-scale projects.
• Strong leadership, coordination, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate within multidisciplinary and multinational project environments.

What Desired Skills You’ll Bring:

• Arabic language skills.
• Experience on major metro, railway, transit, or transportation infrastructure projects.
• Knowledge of systems engineering, interface management, and systems integration best practices.

Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.

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