Lead Engineer MEP/ Material Handling Systems

Role overview

Qualifications and experience

• Qualified graduate engineer in Mechanical Engineering or Building Services Engineering.
• Minimum 12–15 years of site and engineering consultancy experience.
• Masters degree or Chartered Engineer status is a plus.
• Middle East project experience is highly preferred; airport, aviation, aircraft hangar, or other complex infrastructure experience is an added advantage.
• Substantial hands-on site experience, including contractor supervision, multidisciplinary coordination, inspections, quality and progress monitoring, testing, commissioning, and handover.

Project delivery

• Supervise construction, installation, testing, commissioning, and handover of MHS and mechanical systems, including HVAC, ventilation, plumbing, firefighting, chilled water, compressed air, and specialist utilities.
• Oversee elevators, escalators, moving walkways, cranes, and lifting systems, including safety, testing, certification, and statutory compliance.
• Inspect sites, conduct quality checks and commissioning activities, document results, and close deficiencies.
• Coordinate interfaces with hangar doors, cranes, aircraft systems, electrical, BMS, fire alarm, civil/structural, and architectural works.
• Review shop drawings, RFIs, material submittals, method statements, ITPs, and commissioning procedures.
• Monitor contractor resources, progress, productivity, delays, risks, and recovery plans against the project programme.
• Manage NCRs, defects, punch-list items, and corrective actions through closure.
• Ensure compliance with HSE, aviation safety, permits, risk assessments, lifting, work-at-height, and confined-space requirements.
• Lead or participate in site, progress, quality, safety, and commissioning meetings; prepare regular site reports.
• Review as-built drawings, O&M manuals, asset data, training, warranties, test records, and handover documentation.
• Advise the client and design team and support changes, claims, and practical solutions that protect safety, quality, cost, and programme.

Business and company contributions

• Support business development, winning new work, developing clients, and strengthening existing client relationships.
• Build contract networks and promote effective working relationships between site and design teams.
• Contribute to company and team procedures through task groups, meetings, and procedure reviews.
• Apply company health and safety, quality, and training policies.

Engineering and QHSE

• Understand project design philosophy, engineering principles, buildability, and construction techniques; receive a project briefing before site work.
• Cross-check project documents, including specifications, drawings, and applicable bar bending schedules, and monitor temporary and permanent building stability during construction.
• Assist the design team with engineering coordination on site matters.
• Implement 9E QHSE procedures, follow local regulatory requirements and client/contractor QHSE rules, and report incidents promptly.
• Complete site induction before mobilizing at project sites.