Associate Director MEP (Buildings)

The project and role

Responsibilities

• Lead MEP design, assurance, procurement, and technical coordination across systems and interfaces.
• Review designs and consultant outputs for compliance with project requirements, strategy, briefs, and stage-gate approvals.
• Coordinate project teams, consultants, contractors, and authorities; identify design risks and develop mitigations.
• Ensure compliance with standards, codes, regulations, sustainability requirements, and smart-building guidelines.
• Assess MEP submittals and manage reviews and reporting of design and engineering deliverables against milestones and earned value.
• Act as technical liaison for MEP matters related to contracting, procurement, and requisitions.
• Lead teams and manage delivery, quality, milestones, stakeholder engagement, budgets, risks, governance, safety, and wellbeing.
• Provide strategic workload oversight, support business change, and communicate project performance to stakeholders.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, project management, or a relevant field.
• Master’s degree, relevant professional registration such as Chartered Engineer, and PMP registration are advantageous.
• 10–15+ years of MEP management experience, including senior design leadership on large commercial office or mixed-use developments.
• Experience leading design teams to deliver programme outcomes while balancing cost, time, and quality.
• Expert knowledge of local and international design standards, codes, and regulations; KSA or Middle East experience is preferred.
• Track record delivering BCO Grade A or investment-grade office towers or business parks from concept through handover.
• Experience with design review, authority approvals, international consultant teams, and commercial office design best practice.
• Strong stakeholder and executive presentation skills; excellent written and verbal English; enterprise-level digital design knowledge.
• Strong leadership, strategic thinking, workload prioritization, and ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities.

Work arrangements

• The posting identifies a site-based role.
• Mace is open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable for the role.

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