Delivery Manager - External Areas
Posted date [2026-09-02]
(ID: 50544)
Job Description and Requirements
Delivery Manager - External AreasJob Snapshot
Role: Delivery Manager - External Areas
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Industry: Construction
Function: Project Management
Experience: Not specified
Job Type: Full-time
Position Overview
Delivery Manager - External Areas in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a senior Construction opportunity responsible for coordinating the successful delivery of external works across a major development program. Parsons is hiring an experienced delivery professional to manage construction interfaces, contractors, schedules, quality, safety, stakeholder requirements, and multidisciplinary packages covering public realm, infrastructure, landscaping, roads, utilities, and associated external areas.
Job Details
Country: Saudi Arabia
City: Riyadh
Industry: Construction
Function: Project Management
Salary: 30000-45000
Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-time
Role Context
The Delivery Manager will provide coordinated leadership across external areas where multiple construction packages and disciplines converge. The assignment
may encompass roads, pedestrian environments, landscaping, irrigation, utilities, drainage, lighting, hardscape, softscape, street furniture, access routes, and other public realm infrastructure associated with the development.
A central requirement of the role is managing interfaces. External areas frequently represent the final integration point between buildings, infrastructure networks, landscape works, transportation systems, and operational assets. The Delivery Manager will coordinate these dependencies, establish clear delivery priorities, resolve constraints, and drive work packages toward safe completion and handover.
Key Responsibilities
* Manage delivery of external works and associated infrastructure across assigned project areas.
* Coordinate construction packages involving public realm, roads, utilities, landscaping, irrigation, drainage, lighting, and site development works.
* Establish delivery priorities and ensure individual packages remain aligned with overall program milestones.
* Coordinate interfaces between external works and buildings, structures, transportation systems, utility networks, MEP services, and operational facilities.
* Monitor contractor and subcontractor performance against approved schedules, technical requirements, quality standards, and HSE obligations.
* Review construction sequencing to ensure underground infrastructure, surface finishes, landscaping, and final installations proceed in the correct order.
* Work with Engineering teams to resolve design interfaces, constructability concerns, technical queries, and incomplete information affecting site progress.
* Coordinate RFIs, design clarifications, site instructions, and approved design changes through the appropriate project processes.
* Monitor construction progress against baseline schedules, look-ahead programs, key milestones, and completion priorities.
* Collaborate with Project Controls and Planning teams to identify schedule risks, critical interfaces, and emerging delays.
* Develop practical mitigation and recovery measures where construction performance falls behind planned targets.
* Coordinate availability of work fronts, access, materials, resources, temporary facilities, and construction logistics.
* Lead multidisciplinary coordination between Civil, Structural, Utilities, Landscape, Irrigation, Electrical, Mechanical, Architectural, and specialist teams.
* Ensure roadways, pedestrian routes, plazas, landscape areas, and public spaces integrate correctly with surrounding infrastructure.
* Coordinate utility crossings, tie-ins, chambers, drainage connections, irrigation networks, lighting, and other external services.
* Monitor hardscape installation, paving, curbs, street furniture, signage, barriers, and associated public realm elements where included in the scope.
* Coordinate softscape and irrigation activities with preceding civil and utility works to prevent rework or damage.
* Work with Quality teams to verify implementation of Inspection and Test Plans and approved project procedures.
* Track defects, NCRs, quality observations, punch-list items, and incomplete works through resolution.
* Coordinate with HSE personnel to maintain safe access, excavation controls, lifting requirements, traffic management, and protection of workers and the public.
* Review contractor Method Statements and delivery proposals for major external work activities.
* Monitor materials, equipment, and specialist products required for external area completion.
* Coordinate stakeholders whose activities or approvals influence construction progress and final acceptance.
* Lead regular delivery meetings and ensure actions are assigned, tracked, and closed within required timeframes.
* Escalate critical interface, technical, commercial, or schedule matters that could affect program objectives.
* Support commercial teams with construction records and technical information associated with variations and claims.
* Coordinate phased completion where external areas must be released progressively for access, operations, events, or subsequent contractors.
* Protect completed assets and finishes from damage caused by continuing construction activities.
* Drive readiness reviews for completed external zones and identify outstanding requirements before handover.
* Coordinate testing, commissioning, inspections, authority requirements, and final acceptance where applicable.
* Ensure as-built drawings, inspection records, testing documentation, operation and maintenance information, and closeout records are completed.
* Maintain clear delivery reporting covering progress, constraints, risks, interfaces, decisions, and upcoming priorities.
* Provide leadership and direction to project engineers, construction personnel, consultants, and contractor teams supporting assigned areas.
* Promote collaborative problem-solving while maintaining accountability for safety, quality, schedule, and completion.
Ideal Profile
The position is suited to an experienced project or construction delivery professional with a background in major infrastructure, urban development, public realm, external works, landscaping, civil engineering, or multidisciplinary construction programs.
A bachelor\'s degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, or another relevant technical discipline would provide a strong foundation for the role.
Candidates should have practical experience managing packages that involve multiple external disciplines rather than a single isolated construction scope. Knowledge of roads, utilities, drainage, hardscape, softscape, irrigation, lighting, pedestrian infrastructure, and site development interfaces will be particularly useful.
The successful candidate should understand construction sequencing and recognize the dependencies between underground utilities, civil works, landscape infrastructure, surface treatments, testing, commissioning, and final completion.
Strong experience coordinating contractors, consultants, designers, project controls personnel, quality teams, HSE professionals, and client stakeholders is important.
The role requires the ability to identify delivery constraints early, establish clear priorities, make sound site decisions, and maintain progress across multiple concurrent work fronts.
Previous involvement with giga-projects, large mixed-use developments, major public realm programs, transportation infrastructure, airports, or complex urban developments in Saudi Arabia or the wider Middle East would be advantageous.
Skills Set
External works
Project delivery
Construction management
Public realm
Civil infrastructure
Road construction
Site development
Hardscape works
Softscape works
Landscape construction
Irrigation systems
Utility infrastructure
Drainage systems
Street lighting
Pedestrian infrastructure
Paving works
Street furniture
Construction sequencing
Interface management
Multidisciplinary coordination
Contractor management
Subcontractor management
Construction planning
Project scheduling
Look-ahead planning
Project controls
Workfront management
Construction logistics
Method Statements
Inspection and Test Plans
Quality control
NCR management
Punch-list management
RFIs
Technical queries
Design coordination
Constructability reviews
HSE coordination
Traffic management
Stakeholder coordination
Risk management
Progress monitoring
Testing and commissioning
Phased handover
As-built documentation
Project closeout
Why Join Us
Riyadh\'s large-scale urban transformation is creating complex delivery environments where external areas must bring infrastructure, landscape, transportation, utilities, and public spaces together as a coordinated whole. This position provides an opportunity to manage those critical interfaces and influence how completed development areas function, connect, and transition into operation.
The role offers broad exposure across multidisciplinary construction packages and provides an experienced delivery manager with responsibility for turning fragmented work fronts into coordinated, safe, high-quality, and handover-ready external environments.
About the Company
Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, construction management, infrastructure, technology, and program services across major urban development and transportation projects. In Saudi Arabia, its multidisciplinary teams support complex programs through capabilities in project delivery, construction management, infrastructure, public realm, engineering, project controls, quality, and HSE.
A central requirement of the role is managing interfaces. External areas frequently represent the final integration point between buildings, infrastructure networks, landscape works, transportation systems, and operational assets. The Delivery Manager will coordinate these dependencies, establish clear delivery priorities, resolve constraints, and drive work packages toward safe completion and handover.
Key Responsibilities
* Manage delivery of external works and associated infrastructure across assigned project areas.
* Coordinate construction packages involving public realm, roads, utilities, landscaping, irrigation, drainage, lighting, and site development works.
* Establish delivery priorities and ensure individual packages remain aligned with overall program milestones.
* Coordinate interfaces between external works and buildings, structures, transportation systems, utility networks, MEP services, and operational facilities.
* Monitor contractor and subcontractor performance against approved schedules, technical requirements, quality standards, and HSE obligations.
* Review construction sequencing to ensure underground infrastructure, surface finishes, landscaping, and final installations proceed in the correct order.
* Work with Engineering teams to resolve design interfaces, constructability concerns, technical queries, and incomplete information affecting site progress.
* Coordinate RFIs, design clarifications, site instructions, and approved design changes through the appropriate project processes.
* Monitor construction progress against baseline schedules, look-ahead programs, key milestones, and completion priorities.
* Collaborate with Project Controls and Planning teams to identify schedule risks, critical interfaces, and emerging delays.
* Develop practical mitigation and recovery measures where construction performance falls behind planned targets.
* Coordinate availability of work fronts, access, materials, resources, temporary facilities, and construction logistics.
* Lead multidisciplinary coordination between Civil, Structural, Utilities, Landscape, Irrigation, Electrical, Mechanical, Architectural, and specialist teams.
* Ensure roadways, pedestrian routes, plazas, landscape areas, and public spaces integrate correctly with surrounding infrastructure.
* Coordinate utility crossings, tie-ins, chambers, drainage connections, irrigation networks, lighting, and other external services.
* Monitor hardscape installation, paving, curbs, street furniture, signage, barriers, and associated public realm elements where included in the scope.
* Coordinate softscape and irrigation activities with preceding civil and utility works to prevent rework or damage.
* Work with Quality teams to verify implementation of Inspection and Test Plans and approved project procedures.
* Track defects, NCRs, quality observations, punch-list items, and incomplete works through resolution.
* Coordinate with HSE personnel to maintain safe access, excavation controls, lifting requirements, traffic management, and protection of workers and the public.
* Review contractor Method Statements and delivery proposals for major external work activities.
* Monitor materials, equipment, and specialist products required for external area completion.
* Coordinate stakeholders whose activities or approvals influence construction progress and final acceptance.
* Lead regular delivery meetings and ensure actions are assigned, tracked, and closed within required timeframes.
* Escalate critical interface, technical, commercial, or schedule matters that could affect program objectives.
* Support commercial teams with construction records and technical information associated with variations and claims.
* Coordinate phased completion where external areas must be released progressively for access, operations, events, or subsequent contractors.
* Protect completed assets and finishes from damage caused by continuing construction activities.
* Drive readiness reviews for completed external zones and identify outstanding requirements before handover.
* Coordinate testing, commissioning, inspections, authority requirements, and final acceptance where applicable.
* Ensure as-built drawings, inspection records, testing documentation, operation and maintenance information, and closeout records are completed.
* Maintain clear delivery reporting covering progress, constraints, risks, interfaces, decisions, and upcoming priorities.
* Provide leadership and direction to project engineers, construction personnel, consultants, and contractor teams supporting assigned areas.
* Promote collaborative problem-solving while maintaining accountability for safety, quality, schedule, and completion.
Ideal Profile
The position is suited to an experienced project or construction delivery professional with a background in major infrastructure, urban development, public realm, external works, landscaping, civil engineering, or multidisciplinary construction programs.
A bachelor\'s degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, or another relevant technical discipline would provide a strong foundation for the role.
Candidates should have practical experience managing packages that involve multiple external disciplines rather than a single isolated construction scope. Knowledge of roads, utilities, drainage, hardscape, softscape, irrigation, lighting, pedestrian infrastructure, and site development interfaces will be particularly useful.
The successful candidate should understand construction sequencing and recognize the dependencies between underground utilities, civil works, landscape infrastructure, surface treatments, testing, commissioning, and final completion.
Strong experience coordinating contractors, consultants, designers, project controls personnel, quality teams, HSE professionals, and client stakeholders is important.
The role requires the ability to identify delivery constraints early, establish clear priorities, make sound site decisions, and maintain progress across multiple concurrent work fronts.
Previous involvement with giga-projects, large mixed-use developments, major public realm programs, transportation infrastructure, airports, or complex urban developments in Saudi Arabia or the wider Middle East would be advantageous.
Skills Set
External works
Project delivery
Construction management
Public realm
Civil infrastructure
Road construction
Site development
Hardscape works
Softscape works
Landscape construction
Irrigation systems
Utility infrastructure
Drainage systems
Street lighting
Pedestrian infrastructure
Paving works
Street furniture
Construction sequencing
Interface management
Multidisciplinary coordination
Contractor management
Subcontractor management
Construction planning
Project scheduling
Look-ahead planning
Project controls
Workfront management
Construction logistics
Method Statements
Inspection and Test Plans
Quality control
NCR management
Punch-list management
RFIs
Technical queries
Design coordination
Constructability reviews
HSE coordination
Traffic management
Stakeholder coordination
Risk management
Progress monitoring
Testing and commissioning
Phased handover
As-built documentation
Project closeout
Why Join Us
Riyadh\'s large-scale urban transformation is creating complex delivery environments where external areas must bring infrastructure, landscape, transportation, utilities, and public spaces together as a coordinated whole. This position provides an opportunity to manage those critical interfaces and influence how completed development areas function, connect, and transition into operation.
The role offers broad exposure across multidisciplinary construction packages and provides an experienced delivery manager with responsibility for turning fragmented work fronts into coordinated, safe, high-quality, and handover-ready external environments.
About the Company
Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, construction management, infrastructure, technology, and program services across major urban development and transportation projects. In Saudi Arabia, its multidisciplinary teams support complex programs through capabilities in project delivery, construction management, infrastructure, public realm, engineering, project controls, quality, and HSE.
