Director - Stations

About the Role

Join Parsons as a Director of Stations, where you'll lead the architectural, engineering, and technical efforts to design and deliver a network of fully automated GoA4 driverless rail transit stations. Working directly on the client side within a fast-paced developer-driven environment, you will be responsible for ensuring the technical integrity of stations, optimizing the passenger experience, and managing complex integration with adjacent infrastructures.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the functional design of all stations, focusing on optimal passenger flows, platform screen door integration, vertical transportation capacity, emergency egress, and efficient circulation for high-capacity driverless systems.
• Coordinate intricate MEP systems including tunnel ventilation, smoke extraction, and environmental controls in harmony with architectural and structural elements.
• Integrate transit subsystems like communications, SCADA, security, and signaling rooms while preserving design quality and operational adaptability.
• Oversee and hold accountable Tier 1 international architectural and engineering consultants as well as Project Management Officers through rigorous design reviews to maintain quality, schedule, and budget.
• Implement and enforce internal technical assurance standards, safety-by-design protocols, configuration controls, and compliance with global and local civil defense RAMS and safety requirements.
• Lead value engineering initiatives to optimize spatial efficiency, constructability, and lifecycle maintenance costs without compromising safety or passenger experience.
• Act as the primary technical liaison for station integration with real estate developers, coordinating physical footprints, structural loads, and utility connections.
• Manage commercial boundaries to protect rail operational and structural rights-of-way, ensuring alignment with developer schedules and master planning phases.
• Proactively resolve design conflicts between developer goals and rail transit needs to achieve mutually beneficial urban integration.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• At least 15 years of experience delivering major rail transit station infrastructure projects, including a minimum of 5 years leading client-side engineering or architectural design teams.
• Strong expertise in transit station design, encompassing space planning, MEP coordination, platform screen door systems, and life-safety systems; experience with automated driverless (GoA4) transit lines is highly desirable.
• Proven success working in developer-led environments involving multi-stakeholder real estate master plans, large giga-projects, or air-rights developments.
• Demonstrated ability to direct and evaluate high-level international architectural and engineering consultants effectively.
• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, or related disciplines; professional chartership (e.g. RIBA, AIA, CEng) is strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with construction management, material selection, and regulatory approval processes including Civil Defense within Saudi Arabia or the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region is advantageous.

Diversity and Employment Commitment

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer embracing diversity at all levels regardless of race, color, religion, gender (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, or genetic information. We foster employee well-being and provide ample growth possibilities.

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