Job description
Role Overview
Design Manager position at Decima International, located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This is an onsite role within the Project Management department, supporting data center and mission-critical construction projects. Saudi National applicants only.
Company Overview
Decima International is a professional services company providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East. The company's mission is to become the premier professional services provider across all industry sectors it serves. Decima International operates on a philosophy of treating each client engagement as a partnership, creating an environment that attracts talented professionals and allows them to flourish, and regulating growth to maintain excellence in service standards.
Role Purpose
Lead and coordinate the multidisciplinary design process for major data center projects in Riyadh. Ensure design packages are coordinated, constructible, technically compliant, and delivered in line with project requirements and schedule. Act as a key interface between the Owner, designers, consultants, contractors, and technical disciplines, supporting design development from concept through IFC, construction, commissioning, and closeout.
Key Responsibilities
Design Coordination & Management
- Manage multidisciplinary design development from concept through IFC.
- Coordinate CSA, MEP, ICT, Fire Protection, Security, and other technical disciplines.
- Lead multidisciplinary design coordination meetings and track resulting actions.
- Ensure design interfaces between architecture, structure, MEP, ICT, security, and specialist systems are properly coordinated.
Design Review & Quality Assurance
- Review design packages for technical compliance, completeness, coordination, and constructability.
- Identify design clashes, interface gaps, technical risks, and inconsistencies and drive timely resolution.
- Support BIM coordination and clash detection and resolution activities.
- Ensure design deliverables comply with applicable codes, standards, project specifications, and client requirements.
Documentation & Administration
- Manage and track RFIs, design comments, submittals, technical clarifications, and outstanding design actions.
- Maintain clear tracking of design risks, decisions, approvals, and outstanding actions.
- Prepare design progress reports, dashboards, and client presentations.
Project Execution & Coordination
- Coordinate closely with designers, consultants, contractors, vendors, and client representatives.
- Monitor design deliverables against project schedules and escalate delays or constraints.
- Manage design changes, field changes, and design-related impacts during construction.
- Support resolution of site-based design issues during construction.
Value Engineering & Constructability
- Support constructability reviews and Value Engineering initiatives.
- Assist with technical reviews of long-lead equipment and major system packages.
Handover & Closeout
- Support testing, commissioning, handover, and project closeout activities from a design perspective.
Qualifications & Experience
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
- Strong experience in multidisciplinary design management and coordination.
- Experience managing complex design packages through concept, design development, and IFC stages.
- Strong understanding of CSA, MEP, ICT, Fire Protection, Security, and other major building systems.
- Strong technical drawing interpretation and design review capabilities.
- Experience managing RFIs, technical submittals, design comments, and clarifications.
- Strong constructability review and design risk management experience.
- Experience coordinating designers, consultants, contractors, and client stakeholders.
- Strong BIM coordination experience, including design clash review and resolution.
Preferred
- Experience on hyperscale data center or mission-critical projects.
- Experience in large-scale infrastructure, industrial, hospital, power plant, semiconductor, or similarly complex projects.
- Experience with Design-Build delivery models.
- Experience supporting Value Engineering and constructability reviews.
- PMP certification.
- Professional engineering certification or registration.
- Strong knowledge of Saudi Building Codes and local authority requirements.
- Experience working with hyperscale client standards such as AWS, Microsoft, or Google.
- Experience working on projects in Saudi Arabia or the wider GCC region.
Skills & Competencies
- Proficiency in Revit.
- Proficiency in Navisworks.
- Proficiency in AutoCAD.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint.
- Familiarity with Procore.
- Familiarity with Bluebeam.
- Familiarity with CxAlloy or similar commissioning platforms.
- Experience with BIM coordination platforms.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Strong presentation skills.
- Strong coordination skills.
- Strong stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple design priorities in a fast-paced project environment.
Additional Information
- Work Setting: Onsite in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
- Industry: Data Centers and Mission-Critical Construction.
- Equal Opportunity Employer: Decima International is committed to the safety and well-being of all and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, medical condition, marital or domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression and transgender status, mental disability or physical disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, citizenship, low-income status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law.