Senior Design & Interface Manager

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Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Design & Interface Manager to join our Abu Dhabi team! In this role you will lead and coordinate the design integration and interface management efforts across all disciplines within the Airport Infrastructure Program. This role will oversee the coordination of design activities across terminal, airfield, and infrastructure works, ensuring seamless integration, compliance with program requirements, and the maintenance of design intent through construction and commissioning phases.

The Design Interface Manager will act as the primary link between design, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness teams to ensure technical alignment, resolution of design conflicts, and delivery of fully coordinated design packages. This position requires exceptional technical leadership, multi-disciplinary coordination expertise, and a deep understanding of design processes and airport infrastructure systems.

1. Design Coordination & Integration

• Lead the coordination of design activities across architectural, structural, MEP, civil, systems, and specialist disciplines.
• Facilitate multi-disciplinary design interface workshops to identify, document, and resolve conflicts early in the design process.
• Ensure alignment between design consultants, contractors, and PMCM teams to achieve fully coordinated and constructible designs.
• Support the integration of design deliverables with overall program objectives and master schedules.

2. Design Interface Management

• Establish and maintain a structured design interface management process across all design packages.
• Maintain up-to-date interface registers and track the resolution of technical conflicts between disciplines and work packages.
• Ensure clear communication and documentation of interface responsibilities and handover points between different design teams.
• Collaborate with construction and systems integration teams to ensure that design interfaces translate effectively into field execution.

3. Design Review & Quality Assurance

• Lead the review of design deliverables to verify compliance with project requirements, specifications, and applicable standards.
• Support and manage the design review process up to the systematic design stage, ensuring design quality and consistency.
• Validate that all design submissions meet functional, operational, and maintainability requirements.
• Ensure that design intent is preserved throughout construction and commissioning stages.

4. Technical Issue Resolution

• Oversee the resolution of cross-disciplinary technical issues and design conflicts through structured review and coordination.
• Respond to and approve design clarifications, RFIs, and technical queries in collaboration with engineering leads.
• Manage the evaluation and approval of design changes, ensuring proper control, traceability, and documentation.
• Facilitate the decision-making process to ensure timely resolution of design-related challenges impacting project progress.

5. Change Control & Configuration Management

• Manage design modifications and variations in alignment with the program’s formal change control procedures.
• Ensure that any design changes are technically validated, cost-assessed, and approved in accordance with project governance.
• Maintain accurate records of all design changes and their impact on downstream activities.

6. BIM Integration & Digital Coordination

• Oversee the integration and management of Building Information Modeling (BIM) across all disciplines for design coordination and clash detection.
• Ensure BIM models are used effectively for design integration, constructability analysis, and visualization.
• Collaborate with the digital engineering team to maintain model accuracy, version…