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Principal Design Manager

Mott Macdonald 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia

Full-time Director

Lead multidisciplinary design teams delivering detailed designs for major buildings and transport infrastructure projects, ensuring coordinated, compliant, constructible outputs that meet programme, budget, and quality objectives. Manage design scope, changes, interfaces, resources, risks, technical assurance, approvals, and engagement with clients, contractors, consultants, and authorities.

Responsibilities

  • Lead multidisciplinary design teams delivering detailed designs for major buildings and transport infrastructure projects, ensuring coordinated, compliant, constructible outputs that meet programme, budget, and quality objectives. Manage design scope, changes, interfaces, resources, risks, technical assurance, approvals, and engagement with clients, contractors, consultants, and authorities.

Requirements

  • Requires a relevant bachelor's degree and significant experience managing multidisciplinary detailed design delivery on major buildings, transport, or infrastructure projects. Candidates should demonstrate strong technical assurance, codes and standards, scope and change control, programme and commercial management, and leadership skills; Middle East experience, professional registration, BIM knowledge, and FIDIC familiarity are advantageous.

Benefits

  • Annual Bonus Opportunities
  • Long-Term Employee Ownership Participation
  • Medical Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Annual Leave
  • Maternity Leave
  • Paternity Leave
  • Professional Membership Support
  • Learning And Career Development

Key Skills

Design leadership Multidisciplinary design management Detailed design coordination Construction documentation Scope management Change control Technical assurance Client engagement Stakeholder communication Risk management Budget management Schedule management BIM FIDIC contracts Leadership

About Mott Macdonald

We are an engineering, management and development consultancy and one of the largest wholly employee-owned firms of our kind. We plan, design, deliver and maintain the transport, energy, water, defence and security, and buildings infrastructure that is integral to people's daily lives. Our core strength is using our expertise to overcome complex challenges to deliver benefits for our clients and the communities they serve.

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