Assistant Design Manager Citywide

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Job Description

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Assistant Design Manager Citywide to join our team in Qiddiya!

Position Overview

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. Draws upon diversified design experience to lead lower-level Designers and Drafters in completing the most difficult and complex design assignments, generally utilizing either 2D or 3D CAD methods.

Specific Responsibilities

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.

Performs other responsibilities associated with this position as may be appropriate.

Key Relationships

Supervision Received - Project Engineer; Supervising Designer; Project Manager

Supervision Given - Lower-level Designers (technical guidance only)

Internal Contacts - All Employees on Project

External Contacts - Clients; Suppliers; Fabricators

Education/Experience

2-year technical degree or certificate of completion from an accredited designer/drafter course (or equivalent) is preferred, and typically 12+ years of related experience (including some job leadership experience).

Skills/Competencies

Requirements include strong PC and CAD skills, as well as 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.

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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