Assistant Project Manager - Systems Rail

Job Description

Parsons KAFD is looking for an amazingly talented Assistant Project Manager - Systems Rail to join our team!

In this role, you will join a leading professional engineering, construction, and cost management team working on multiple projects in the King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD). KAFD is a master plan development positioned to become Riyadh’s new Central Business District that combines a mixture of world-class commercial offices, hotels, retail spaces, contemporary residences, and a monorail in addition to smart city solutions that redefine urban living.

Will be part of a team that completes a variety of technical (rail focus) assignments. Demonstrates knowledge within one or more specialties.

What You'll Be Doing

• Assist with the management and guidance of the project design teams in line with the project schedule.
• Ensuring high-quality designs are produced on time and are easy to decipher.
• Collaborating with other engineering discipline teams, other stakeholders, and other departments to achieve design goals, including full design interfacing
• Working with Client to ensure that their expectations are met.
• Overseeing the design process applied to the project for all contractors and sub-contractors.
• Assignments typically involve design elements for which there may be no established precedents and require anticipating problems at the outset to provide appropriate solutions.
• Ensure that clear and accurate reporting of progress, pending, and completed deliverables is maintained.
• Ensure compliance with specifications, tolerances, safety factors, and client requirements.
• Performs interdisciplinary reviews and coordinates data to ensure a compatible design from the contractors.
• Understands and applies local and international commonly used rail standards, codes, and methods.
• Keeping up to date with changing legislation and codes of practice relating to design.
• Ensuring compliance with standards, codes, and local rules and regulations.
• Performs other responsibilities associated with this position as may be appropriate.
• Ensure the design from the contractors limits financial risk during construction
• Maintaining thorough documentation of the design process
• Creates and presents final design recommendations through the appropriate presentation media.
• Attending, hosting, or coordinating department and design/stakeholder/integration meetings
• Delegating work where necessary and reviewing that work when it has been completed.
• Flexibility and dependability to work in multifaceted working environments.
• The ability to produce quality projects consistently.
• Excellent communication skills - both written and oral.
• Experience in a lead role is preferred.
  
  
  

What Required Skills You'll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related discipline
• Minimum of 6 years of related technical and work experience
  
  
  

Minimum Clearance Required To Start

Not Applicable/None

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace. Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veteran.