Parsons Federal - Engineered Systems - Design Manager

Parsons Corporation is a leading organization that values innovation and employee growth. They are seeking a Federal Design Manager to lead the design execution process, integrating various project requirements and ensuring coordinated delivery throughout the project lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

• The Federal Design Manager leads the design execution process from project startup through final design, construction support, commissioning, and closeout, as applicable
• The Design Manager operates as part of a project design-leadership triad with the Project Manager and the Project Engineer / Senior Project Engineer
• The Design Manager owns design integration, readiness discipline, action visibility, and evidence-based closure
• A successful candidate will be able to explain, at any point in execution, what design actions and decisions are open; who owns them; when they are due; what deliverables or milestones are affected; what evidence supports closure; and what unresolved conditions may affect scope, cost, schedule, quality, safety, security, constructability, commissioning, client acceptance, or contractual entitlement

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in engineering, architecture, construction management, or a closely related technical discipline
• Fifteen or more years of progressive design, engineering, architecture, or project-delivery experience, including substantial responsibility for multidisciplinary design coordination and formal deliverables
• Demonstrated experience leading or serving in a senior design-management role on complex, high-profile, regulated, mission-critical, infrastructure, facility, or federal projects
• Experience supporting projects from startup and design planning through intermediate and final design, issue for construction, construction support, commissioning, and closeout
• Working knowledge of contract requirements, codes and criteria, requirements traceability, basis-of-design control, assumptions, technical decisions, and change screening
• Experience planning and coordinating design reviews, interdisciplinary checks, QA/QC interfaces, comment disposition, package-readiness reviews, and documented exceptions
• An active Secret security clearance is required for this position
• Active Professional Engineer or Registered Architect license; registration may be required for specific assignments
• PMP, DBIA, CCM, or other relevant project, design-build, construction, quality, or safety credential
• Experience with U.S. federal agencies, defense or civilian programs, secure facilities, complex infrastructure, or mission-critical environments
• Experience with design-build, engineer-procure-construct, integrated delivery, progressive design-build, or other delivery methods requiring close design-construction integration
• Strong understanding of multidisciplinary building, site, utility, infrastructure, systems, digital-delivery, constructability, procurement, and commissioning interfaces
• Experience supporting design budgets, labor forecasts, change documentation, scope clarification, entitlement protection, and recovery planning
• Experience integrating subconsultants, specialty consultants, vendors, utilities, reviewers, authorities having jurisdiction, and construction teams
• Demonstrated success coaching, mentoring, and developing design managers, discipline leads, and emerging project leaders in a matrixed organization