Interface Manager - Rail Systems
Posted date [2026-07-08]
(ID: 47747)
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Job Description and Requirements
Interface Manager - Rail SystemsJob Snapshot
Role: Interface Manager - Rail Systems
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Industry: Transportation-Trucking-Railroad
Function: Systems
Experience: Minimum 15 years
Job Type: Full-time
Position Overview
Interface Manager - Rail Systems in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a Transportation-Trucking-Railroad opportunity with Parsons Corporation for an experienced engineering professional who can lead interface management across complex rail systems, heavy civil infrastructure, contractors, suppliers, stakeholders, and multidisciplinary project teams. This role focuses on identifying, tracking, resolving, and verifying system interface requirements throughout design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, trial running, and operational readiness.
Job Details
Country: Saudi Arabia
City: Riyadh
Industry: Transportation-Trucking-Railroad
Function: Systems
Salary: 45000-65000
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 Interface Manager - Rail Systems will lead the interface management strategy for a major transportation
infrastructure program in Riyadh. The role requires deep understanding of railway systems, signaling interfaces, systems integration, design coordination, construction sequencing, stakeholder engagement, and contractor management. By controlling technical interfaces across work packages and system elements, the position helps reduce delivery risks, prevent coordination failures, protect project schedules, and support successful integration before revenue service.
Key Responsibilities
* Develop and implement the interface management strategy, planning framework, processes, and control procedures across the project lifecycle.
* Identify, define, track, and manage system interface requirements across rail systems, civil works, contractors, suppliers, stakeholders, and project disciplines.
* Act as the main focal point for interface work package contractors, designated interface contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, consultants, and external stakeholders.
* Lead interface coordination meetings, technical workshops, reviews, and resolution sessions to support project integration.
* Chair regular interface meetings with contractors, suppliers, client representatives, and project teams to resolve open issues and confirm accountability.
* Ensure interface deliverables comply with contractual requirements, project standards, technical specifications, systems engineering requirements, and quality expectations.
* Develop and maintain Interface Management Plans for work packages, system elements, project interfaces, and stakeholder coordination areas.
* Prepare, update, and control Interface Control Documents, Detailed Interface Documents, interface registers, matrices, action trackers, and dependency logs.
* Monitor interface requirements throughout design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, trial running, and handover phases.
* Perform impact assessments for interface requirements, design changes, system changes, and stakeholder-driven modifications.
* Provide recommendations to project leadership to support informed decisions on scope, schedule, risk, quality, budget, sustainability, and operational readiness.
* Coordinate stakeholder engagement and integration activities to align project objectives with interface requirements and delivery priorities.
* Communicate interface issues, approvals, risks, dependencies, mitigation actions, and coordination requirements to the client and project management teams.
* Manage interface resolution activities and implement mitigation strategies to ensure conflicts are closed in a controlled and timely manner.
* Coordinate with contractors and subcontractors to verify implementation of interface requirements during construction, testing, commissioning, and systems integration stages.
* Support procurement activities by providing interface management input into tender documents, contract packages, technical schedules, and supplier requirements.
* Support Systems Integration Testing, Trial Running, and operational readiness activities to confirm interfaces are validated before revenue service.
* Provide regular interface reports, status updates, risk assessments, dashboard inputs, and mitigation plans to client and senior project teams.
* Guide, support, and train interface management team members to improve consistency, reporting quality, and technical control.
* Promote structured communication between multidisciplinary and multinational teams working across rail systems, civil engineering, construction, operations, and stakeholder workstreams.
Ideal Profile
* Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related discipline.
* Minimum 15 years of relevant experience in engineering, systems, interface management, rail, transportation, infrastructure, or heavy civil project delivery.
* Minimum 5 years of experience in a lead role on major infrastructure, metro, railway, transit, or heavy civil projects.
* Strong technical expertise in the design and construction of complex rail systems.
* Comprehensive knowledge of railway project design, construction management, systems integration, interface control, and stakeholder coordination.
* Strong understanding of modern railway systems, including signaling systems, rail subsystems, civil interfaces, operational interfaces, and systems integration requirements.
* Proven experience developing and managing interface management processes, Interface Management Plans, Interface Control Documents, registers, reports, and technical documentation.
* Ability to manage interface requirements across contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, consultants, client teams, and third-party stakeholders.
* Experience supporting construction, testing, commissioning, Systems Integration Testing, Trial Running, and operational readiness activities is preferred.
* Knowledge of systems engineering, interface management, and systems integration best practices is advantageous.
* Experience on major metro, railway, transit, or transportation infrastructure projects is preferred.
* Arabic language skills are advantageous.
* Strong leadership, coordination, stakeholder management, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
* Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary and multinational project environments.
Skills Set
* Interface management
* Rail systems
* Railway systems
* Metro projects
* Transportation infrastructure
* Systems integration
* Systems engineering
* Signaling systems
* System interfaces
* Civil works interfaces
* Contractor coordination
* Supplier coordination
* Stakeholder coordination
* Interface Management Plans
* Interface Control Documents
* Detailed Interface Documents
* Interface registers
* Interface matrices
* Dependency logs
* Action trackers
* Interface workshops
* Technical coordination
* Design coordination
* Construction interface management
* Contract interface requirements
* Impact assessments
* Risk mitigation
* Systems Integration Testing
* Trial Running
* Operational readiness
* Testing and commissioning
* Procurement support
* Tender documentation
* Contract documentation
* Multidisciplinary coordination
* Multinational team coordination
* English communication
* Arabic language
* Riyadh railway jobs
* Saudi Arabia interface manager jobs
Why Join Us
This role gives an experienced Interface Manager the opportunity to lead rail systems interface control on a major transportation infrastructure program in Riyadh. Parsons Corporation offers exposure to complex railway delivery, systems integration, major contractors, client-side coordination, and high-impact infrastructure development in Saudi Arabia. The position is well suited for a technical leader who wants to improve project integration, resolve complex interface risks, and support the delivery of reliable metro and railway infrastructure.
About the Company
Parsons Corporation is a global engineering, infrastructure, transportation, and program management company supporting major rail, metro, mobility, urban development, and civil engineering projects. In Saudi Arabia, Parsons contributes to complex transportation programs through systems integration, design coordination, construction oversight, technical governance, and stakeholder management. The company supports Riyadh’s infrastructure transformation with international delivery expertise, disciplined project controls, and practical knowledge of large-scale transportation systems.
Key Responsibilities
* Develop and implement the interface management strategy, planning framework, processes, and control procedures across the project lifecycle.
* Identify, define, track, and manage system interface requirements across rail systems, civil works, contractors, suppliers, stakeholders, and project disciplines.
* Act as the main focal point for interface work package contractors, designated interface contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, consultants, and external stakeholders.
* Lead interface coordination meetings, technical workshops, reviews, and resolution sessions to support project integration.
* Chair regular interface meetings with contractors, suppliers, client representatives, and project teams to resolve open issues and confirm accountability.
* Ensure interface deliverables comply with contractual requirements, project standards, technical specifications, systems engineering requirements, and quality expectations.
* Develop and maintain Interface Management Plans for work packages, system elements, project interfaces, and stakeholder coordination areas.
* Prepare, update, and control Interface Control Documents, Detailed Interface Documents, interface registers, matrices, action trackers, and dependency logs.
* Monitor interface requirements throughout design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, trial running, and handover phases.
* Perform impact assessments for interface requirements, design changes, system changes, and stakeholder-driven modifications.
* Provide recommendations to project leadership to support informed decisions on scope, schedule, risk, quality, budget, sustainability, and operational readiness.
* Coordinate stakeholder engagement and integration activities to align project objectives with interface requirements and delivery priorities.
* Communicate interface issues, approvals, risks, dependencies, mitigation actions, and coordination requirements to the client and project management teams.
* Manage interface resolution activities and implement mitigation strategies to ensure conflicts are closed in a controlled and timely manner.
* Coordinate with contractors and subcontractors to verify implementation of interface requirements during construction, testing, commissioning, and systems integration stages.
* Support procurement activities by providing interface management input into tender documents, contract packages, technical schedules, and supplier requirements.
* Support Systems Integration Testing, Trial Running, and operational readiness activities to confirm interfaces are validated before revenue service.
* Provide regular interface reports, status updates, risk assessments, dashboard inputs, and mitigation plans to client and senior project teams.
* Guide, support, and train interface management team members to improve consistency, reporting quality, and technical control.
* Promote structured communication between multidisciplinary and multinational teams working across rail systems, civil engineering, construction, operations, and stakeholder workstreams.
Ideal Profile
* Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related discipline.
* Minimum 15 years of relevant experience in engineering, systems, interface management, rail, transportation, infrastructure, or heavy civil project delivery.
* Minimum 5 years of experience in a lead role on major infrastructure, metro, railway, transit, or heavy civil projects.
* Strong technical expertise in the design and construction of complex rail systems.
* Comprehensive knowledge of railway project design, construction management, systems integration, interface control, and stakeholder coordination.
* Strong understanding of modern railway systems, including signaling systems, rail subsystems, civil interfaces, operational interfaces, and systems integration requirements.
* Proven experience developing and managing interface management processes, Interface Management Plans, Interface Control Documents, registers, reports, and technical documentation.
* Ability to manage interface requirements across contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, consultants, client teams, and third-party stakeholders.
* Experience supporting construction, testing, commissioning, Systems Integration Testing, Trial Running, and operational readiness activities is preferred.
* Knowledge of systems engineering, interface management, and systems integration best practices is advantageous.
* Experience on major metro, railway, transit, or transportation infrastructure projects is preferred.
* Arabic language skills are advantageous.
* Strong leadership, coordination, stakeholder management, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
* Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary and multinational project environments.
Skills Set
* Interface management
* Rail systems
* Railway systems
* Metro projects
* Transportation infrastructure
* Systems integration
* Systems engineering
* Signaling systems
* System interfaces
* Civil works interfaces
* Contractor coordination
* Supplier coordination
* Stakeholder coordination
* Interface Management Plans
* Interface Control Documents
* Detailed Interface Documents
* Interface registers
* Interface matrices
* Dependency logs
* Action trackers
* Interface workshops
* Technical coordination
* Design coordination
* Construction interface management
* Contract interface requirements
* Impact assessments
* Risk mitigation
* Systems Integration Testing
* Trial Running
* Operational readiness
* Testing and commissioning
* Procurement support
* Tender documentation
* Contract documentation
* Multidisciplinary coordination
* Multinational team coordination
* English communication
* Arabic language
* Riyadh railway jobs
* Saudi Arabia interface manager jobs
Why Join Us
This role gives an experienced Interface Manager the opportunity to lead rail systems interface control on a major transportation infrastructure program in Riyadh. Parsons Corporation offers exposure to complex railway delivery, systems integration, major contractors, client-side coordination, and high-impact infrastructure development in Saudi Arabia. The position is well suited for a technical leader who wants to improve project integration, resolve complex interface risks, and support the delivery of reliable metro and railway infrastructure.
About the Company
Parsons Corporation is a global engineering, infrastructure, transportation, and program management company supporting major rail, metro, mobility, urban development, and civil engineering projects. In Saudi Arabia, Parsons contributes to complex transportation programs through systems integration, design coordination, construction oversight, technical governance, and stakeholder management. The company supports Riyadh’s infrastructure transformation with international delivery expertise, disciplined project controls, and practical knowledge of large-scale transportation systems.
