Interface Manager (Water Transmission )

In a world of possibilities, pursue one with endless opportunities. Imagine Next! At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible. Job Description: Parsons are looking to appoint an experienced Interface Manager to support its growing team! Interface Manager: Design & Interface is a integrated team-client-facing role for a PMC, responsible for managing and assuring the end‑to‑end design and interface coordination process across multiple disciplines and packages (civil, stations, systems, MEP, rolling stock, etc.). Strong MEP, Water Transmission background, The role has a strong focus on engineering governance, interface management, and safety assurance, Will be responsible for all interfaces - hard/soft, discussions, design workshops, and technical interface Acting on behalf of the client, the position ensures that all designers, contractors, and systems integrators deliver coordinated, safe, and compliant designs and constructed works that meet employer’s requirements, statutory obligations, and project objectives for scope, time, cost, and quality. What You'll Be Doing; - Serve as the primary PMC focal point for design coordination and interface management across the program. - Represent the client in high‑level design, coordination, and interface meetings with consultants, contractors, systems integrators, authorities, and third parties. - Ensure that employer’s requirements, technical standards, and safety obligations are clearly communicated, understood, and implemented by all delivery partners. - Provide independent, objective advice and recommendations to the client leadership on engineering, safety, interface, and program matters. - Lead and manage the overall multi‑discipline design process (concept, preliminary, detailed, and IFC) across architectural, civil/structural, MEP, water transmission and other disciplines. - Review and comment on key design submissions, technical reports, drawings, models, calculations, and specifications to ensure compliance with: and constructability reviews, ensuring that design decisions are robust, buildable, and safe. - Oversee requirements management and traceability, ensuring that all technical and safety requirements are properly captured, allocated, and verified. - Monitor and enforce adherence to the project’s technical assurance and design governance processes. - Establish and manage the project‑wide interface management framework, including processes, tools, and responsibilities. - Identify, classify, and maintain a register of all key interfaces (civil–systems, stations–MEP, systems–rolling stock, depots, third‑party utilities, etc.). - Chair interface coordination meetings and interface control working groups, driving resolution of interface issues and avoiding late changes. - Review and monitor interface control documents, interface matrices, and interface agreements prepared by designers and contractors. - Ensure that interface assumptions and decisions are documented, communicated, and implemented consistently across contracts. - Escalate critical interface risks and conflicts to the client with options and recommendations. - Oversee, from a PMC perspective, the integration of engineering and safety requirements throughout the design and build phases. - Review and monitor RAMS documentation, safety cases, hazard logs, and risk assessments prepared by contractors and consultants. - Ensure that design solutions incorporate safety by design, including construction safety, operational safety, and maintainability considerations. - Coordinate with independent safety assessors (ISA), regulators, and third‑party reviewers, consolidating findings and actions for the client. - Verify that all required safety approvals, certifications, and authority clearances are planned, tracked, and obtained in line with project milestones. - Manage alignment between design deliverables and construction methodology/sequencing, ensuring early identification of constructability issues. - Support the client in assessing and approving design changes, technical deviations, and value engineering proposals, including impact on safety, schedule, cost, and interfaces. - Ensure consistent application of configuration management across design and construction phases, including version control and change tracking. - Coordinate closure of design‑related non‑conformances, technical queries, and RFIs, working with designers and contractors to achieve timely solutions. - Monitor design and interface activities against the integrated master program and key milestones; identify and manage critical path items. - Maintain and regularly update design and interface risk registers, identifying mit

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Serve as the primary PMC focal point for design coordination and interface management across the program. Represent the client in high‑level design, coordination, and interface meetings with consultants, contractors, systems integrators, authorities, and third parties. Ensure that employer’s requirements, technical standards, and safety obligations are clearly communicated, understood, and implemented by all delivery partners. Provide independent, objective advice and recommendations to the client leadership on engineering, safety, interface, and program matters. Lead and manage the overall multi‑discipline design process (concept, preliminary, detailed, and IFC) across architectural, civil/structural, MEP, water transmission and other disciplines. Review and comment on key design submissions, technical reports, drawings, models, calculations, and specifications to ensure compliance with: and constructability reviews, ensuring that design decisions are robust, buildable, and safe. Oversee requirements management and traceability, ensuring that all technical and safety requirements are properly captured, allocated, and verified. Monitor and enforce adherence to the project’s technical assurance and design governance processes. Establish and manage the project‑wide interface management framework, including processes, tools, and responsibilities. Identify, classify, and maintain a register of all key interfaces (civil–systems, stations–MEP, systems–rolling stock, depots, third‑party utilities, etc.). Chair interface coordination meetings and interface control working groups, driving resolution of interface issues and avoiding late changes. Review and monitor interface control documents, interface matrices, and interface agreements prepared by designers and contractors. Ensure that interface assumptions and decisions are documented, communicated, and implemented consistently across contracts. Escalate critical interface risks and conflicts to the client with options and recommendations. Oversee, from a PMC perspective, the integration of engineering and safety requirements throughout the design and build phases. Review and monitor RAMS documentation, safety cases, hazard logs, and risk assessments prepared by contractors and consultants. Ensure that design solutions incorporate safety by design, including construction safety, operational safety, and maintainability considerations. Coordinate with independent safety assessors (ISA), regulators, and third‑party reviewers, consolidating findings and actions for the client. Verify that all required safety approvals, certifications, and authority clearances are planned, tracked, and obtained in line with project milestones. Manage alignment between design deliverables and construction methodology/sequencing, ensuring early identification of constructability issues. Support the client in assessing and approving design changes, technical deviations, and value engineering proposals, including impact on safety, schedule, cost, and interfaces. Ensure consistent application of configuration management across design and construction phases, including version control and change tracking. Coordinate closure of design‑related non‑conformances, technical queries, and RFIs, working with designers and contractors to achieve timely solutions. Monitor design and interface activities against the integrated master program and key milestones; identify and manage critical path items. Maintain and regularly update design and interface risk registers, identifying mit