Architectural Project Manager for Airports

About the Role

The Architectural Project Manager – Airports will join Parsons’ Critical Infrastructure team to work on large U.S. airports in Central and South Florida. The role involves managing design consultant contracts, coordinating governance, and ensuring project scope, budget, and schedule are met while supporting constructability and close‑out activities. The position requires overseeing design reviews, facilitating RFIs, scheduling workshops, and documenting issues in the client’s document control system. The PM will enforce CADD/BIM standards, verify code and regulatory compliance, and provide technical guidance to junior designers. Additional duties include preparing specifications, reviewing shop drawings, and collaborating with engineering and construction units. • Monitor design consultant contract requirements and deliverables • Coordinate project governance design presentations and input • Manage scope of each design submittal package • Develop and recommend cost‑reduction initiatives to stay within budget • Facilitate RFI responses between the project team and design consultant • Schedule and lead design workshops with consultants, clients, and stakeholders • Support design‑to‑budget process and evaluate technical design alternatives • Assist the PM team with constructability reviews throughout design phases • Document design‑related issues, decisions, and actions in the client’s document control system • Organize design review meetings and consolidate stakeholder input • Conduct design review sessions and oversee incorporation of feedback • Ensure resolved design issues are reflected in submittal packages • Coordinate review of submittals and shop drawings with subject‑matter experts and airport operations • Support project close‑out activities related to design consultant obligations • Verify all project designs comply with codes, standards, regulatory and environmental requirements • Enforce client CADD and BIM framework, policies, and procedures • Perform architectural studies, develop design concepts, criteria, and related reports • Coordinate work with engineering and construction units at project sites • Review and approve detailed design and construction drawings and specifications prepared by others • Provide technical consultations for interdisciplinary analytical studies • Prepare material and equipment specifications, purchase requisitions, and review supplier data • Select materials and write construction specifications • Review CAD drawings, renderings, layouts, models, and color boards created by designers • Provide technical guidance to junior architectural designers and drafters • Lead project team members and contribute to performance assessments

Key Responsibilities

• ▸contract management
• ▸design review
• ▸bim enforcement
• ▸rfi management
• ▸specs preparation
• ▸code compliance

What You Bring

Candidates must hold a bachelor’s degree in Architecture, have at least eight years of design‑management experience—preferably in airport facilities—and possess a solid understanding of airport systems and stakeholder collaboration. Professional registration is a plus, and no security clearance is required. Parsons offers best‑in‑class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, ESOP, 401(k), life insurance, flexible schedules, and a commitment to employee wellbeing and growth.

Requirements

• ▸bachelor's
• ▸design management
• ▸airport systems
• ▸stakeholder collaboration
• ▸professional registration
• ▸8+ years

Work Environment

Office Full-Time