Design Coordinator

SYSTRA is one of the world's leading engineering and consultancy groups specialising in public transport and sustainable mobility. With over 10,300 employees, SYSTRA's mission is to design safe and sustainable transport solutions to bring people together, develop social inclusion and facilitate access to employment, education and leisure throughout the world.

For 65 years, the Group has been working alongside cities and regions to contribute to their development by creating, improving and modernising their infrastructure and transport systems, throughout the life cycle of their projects. SYSTRA is involved from the earliest stages of design through to the testing, deployment and maintenance phases. The company provides all its services in over 80 countries worldwide and generates 74% of its turnover internationally. With its new services, SYSTRA supports its clients and partners in their digital, ecological and energy transition, in order to invent the mobility of tomorrow.

In Saudi Arabia, SYSTRA has been ever present for more than 20 years and continues to expand and play its part in helping the Kingdom achieve its 2030 vision. With 400+ employees SYSTRA is involved in many of the Kingdoms iconic projects.

Within our Consulting business, we have an opportunity to establish a PMO to assist in the delivery of a regreneration programme within Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; within this scope we are looking for a Design Coordinator (Buldings/Architecture) to join this programme.

The Design Coordinator will be required to provide input to the senior management on design delivery related matters and be fully responsible for the successful delivery of their assigned services and/or project component, for the duration of the Services.

The Design Coordinator will be required to act as the single focal point of contact for design related matters between the Senior Design Manager and the other senior leadership roles and both internal and external delivery team members, to ensure the integrated management of the project.

• Support the Senior Design Manager to manage all aspects of the buildings design production process to ensure the overall design is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of program's strategic objectives.

• Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships to manage the design and its approval, across the project stakeholders.

• Assist the Senior Design Manager in the preparation of a detailed project plan, as part of the Project Management Plan, for the buildings/architecture related design phases of the program.

• Assist the Senior Design Manager to procure adequate resources to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes.

• Manage the day-to-day buildings/architecture design monitoring activities and resources and actively participate in the design team meetings.

• Ensure that all buildings/architecture related project KPIs, targets, directions and instructions are communicated to all relevant project stakeholders in a clear and timely manner.

• Provide status reporting regarding design milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership.

• Participate and/or drive feasibility studies, vendor selections and proposals for evaluation by appropriate key stakeholders

• Act as an internal quality control check for the design documentation

• Confirm that the Scope of Work to achieve the project objectives is understood and agreed by all relevant parties and that 'scope gaps' are identified and addressed with the Client and relevant parties.

• Managing the design process using commercial, contractual, programme/time awareness and technical expertise

• Ensure the design process recognizes current KSA legislation, standards and codes of practice where appropriate.

• Manage the Design Review process.

• Ensure that designs are proceeding according to scope, schedule, budget and quality standards

• Manage design issues and risks to mitigate impact to baseline program

• Extensive understanding of project and program management principles, methods and techniques

BSc, engineering, architecture or equivalent.

• Minimum of 10 years overall experience

• Minimum of 5 years' experience in a similar role

• Minimum of 5 years working in Middle East

• Experience managing the facilities design, or the planning and coordination of capital projects that included the overall design, contract administration, cost estimating, and scheduling activities

• Previous or current experience working on large master plan projects will be preferred

• Excellent report writing and communication skills

• A high standard of spoken and written English should be a requirement

• Proficiency in design software and tools

Systra is an equal opportunities company; this position is open to all applicants.