Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Stakeholder Manager (Saudi National) to join our Team!

The Stakeholder Manager will lead the coordination and management of engineering and design stakeholders across the Airport / Infrastructure / Airfield project. The role will focus on maintaining effective technical interfaces between the Project Team, Client, GACA and other relevant authorities, Lead Design Consultant, specialist design consultants, contractors, utility providers, and multidisciplinary project teams.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead the stakeholder management function across the project.

• Develop and maintain the Stakeholder Management Plan and stakeholder engagement strategy.

• Identify, map, and categorize all engineering, design, authority, and technical stakeholders.

• Establish clear communication and coordination channels between project teams and external stakeholders.

• Act as the primary coordination point between the Project Team and GACA and other relevant aviation authorities.

• Manage interfaces with the Lead Design Consultant and specialist design consultants.

• Coordinate stakeholder requirements and ensure they are incorporated into project design and deliverables.

• Establish and maintain a comprehensive Stakeholder Register and engagement matrix.

• Develop and maintain stakeholder action, decision, comment, and approval trackers.

• Coordinate stakeholder meetings, workshops, design reviews, technical meetings, and authority coordination sessions.

• Prepare agendas, coordinate technical inputs, record decisions, and monitor closure of stakeholder actions.

• Ensure stakeholder comments and requirements are properly documented, assigned, tracked, and closed.

• Monitor stakeholder approvals and identify potential impacts on project deliverables, procurement, construction, and schedule.

• Escalate critical stakeholder issues and unresolved technical matters to Project Management and senior leadership.

• Coordinate responses to stakeholder comments, RFIs, Technical Queries, design review comments, and authority requirements.

• Facilitate resolution of conflicting requirements between different stakeholders.

• Coordinate multidisciplinary interfaces between Civil, Structural, Architectural, MEP, Utilities, ICT, Aviation Systems, Airfield, Infrastructure, and other disciplines.

• Ensure design consultants maintain alignment with Client requirements, authority requirements, project standards, and approved design criteria.

• Review stakeholder requirements and identify changes that may impact design scope, cost, schedule, quality, or constructability.

• Support the project team in managing changes resulting from stakeholder requirements.

• Ensure stakeholder-driven changes are properly documented and routed through the project change management process.

• Coordinate with Planning and Project Controls teams to monitor schedule impacts resulting from stakeholder reviews and approvals.

• Track submissions, reviews, comments, resubmissions, and approvals to ensure timely progression.

• Identify potential approval bottlenecks and develop mitigation strategies.

• Maintain visibility of critical approvals and stakeholder dependencies.

• Coordinate with Construction teams to ensure stakeholder requirements affecting site execution are clearly communicated.

• Support resolution of technical issues arising during construction that require Client, authority, or consultant input.

• Coordinate stakeholder involvement in testing, commissioning, inspections, and handover activities where required.

• Maintain comprehensive records of stakeholder correspondence, meeting minutes, technical decisions, approvals, and commitments.

• Prepare regular stakeholder status reports for Project Management and senior leadership.

GACA & Aviation Authority Coordination

• Lead stakeholder coordination and technical engagement with GACA and other relevant aviation authorities.

• Coordinate authority requirements related to airport facilities, airfield infrastructure, aviation systems, and associated works.

• Track authority comments, technical observations, approvals, permits, NOCs, and other required clearances.

• Coordinate responses to authority comments with the relevant disciplines and design consultants.

• Facilitate authority design reviews and technical workshops.

• Ensure authority requirements are communicated to Lead Design Consultants, specialist consultants, contractors, and relevant project teams.

• Monitor the status of authority submissions and approvals and highlight potential impacts on project delivery.

• Maintain a clear audit trail of authority requirements, decisions, comments, and approvals.

• Support the Project Team in resolving conflicting or unclear authority requirements.

Design Consultant & Stakeholder Management

• Manage interfaces with the Lead Design Consultant and specialist design consultants.

• Coordinate requirements between different design consultants and ensure design integration.

• Monitor consultant responses to Client and authority comments.

• Ensure technical comments are assigned to the correct discipline and closed within agreed timelines.

• Coordinate design review workshops involving multiple consultants and stakeholders.

• Monitor design deliverables against stakeholder requirements and project milestones.

• Identify gaps, inconsistencies, and interface issues between consultant design packages.

• Facilitate resolution of cross-disciplinary design conflicts.

• Ensure design decisions are properly documented and communicated to all affected stakeholders.

• Support management of consultant performance where stakeholder requirements or technical responses are delayed.

Interface Management

• Coordinate interfaces between project disciplines and external stakeholders.

• Establish clear ownership for technical interfaces and stakeholder actions.

• Identify dependencies between packages, systems, and stakeholders.

• Maintain an Interface Register and monitor interface closure.

Airport / Airfield Responsibilities

• Manage stakeholder interfaces associated with airport terminals, airfield facilities, runways, taxiways, aprons, roads, utilities, and supporting infrastructure.

• Coordinate stakeholder requirements for works within operational or restricted airport environments.

• Support coordination with airport operators, aviation authorities, infrastructure stakeholders, and specialist airport consultants.

• Ensure requirements affecting airside and landside interfaces are clearly communicated and managed.

• Coordinate stakeholder inputs for phased construction, operational constraints, temporary conditions, and future expansion requirements.

• Support coordination of interfaces between airport buildings, airfield infrastructure, utilities, and aviation systems.

Reporting & Governance

• Prepare weekly and monthly Stakeholder Management Reports.

• Report stakeholder engagement status, critical issues, approvals, actions, risks, and upcoming requirements.

• Maintain stakeholder dashboards showing:

  • Submission Status

  • Review Status

  • Approval Status

  • Outstanding Comments

  • Open Actions

  • Technical Decisions

  • Authority Requirements

  • Critical Interfaces

  • Schedule Impacts

• Provide early warning of stakeholder issues that may affect project cost, schedule, quality, or delivery.

• Maintain an auditable record of stakeholder commitments and technical decisions.

• Ensure stakeholder management processes are aligned with project governance and document control requirements.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, preferably Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Structural, or another relevant engineering discipline.

• Minimum 15 years of relevant experience in stakeholder management, engineering, design management, interface management, or major infrastructure project delivery.

• Strong experience managing engineering and design stakeholders on major airport, infrastructure, transportation, or large-scale development projects.

• Proven experience coordinating with GACA, aviation authorities, Client representatives, Lead Design Consultants, specialist consultants, and contractors.

• Strong understanding of multidisciplinary engineering design and technical interfaces.

• Experience managing design reviews, authority submissions, technical comments, approvals, and project interfaces.

• Strong understanding of design development, technical documentation, and project approval processes.

• Experience working on major airport or airfield projects is highly desirable.

• Strong knowledge of project management, design coordination, stakeholder engagement, and interface management processes.

• Excellent communication, negotiation, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.

• Strong understanding of project controls, change management, risk management, and governance.

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