Mechanical Services Manager
Role Overview
The organization delivers engineering, construction, facilities, and infrastructure services across complex projects and operational environments.
The Mechanical Services Manager leads planning, delivery, operation, maintenance, and performance of mechanical building services and related engineering systems.
The position is listed as full-time and fully remote in the United Arab Emirates.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role Overview
The organization delivers engineering, construction, facilities, and infrastructure services across complex projects and operational environments.
The Mechanical Services Manager leads planning, delivery, operation, maintenance, and performance of mechanical building services and related engineering systems.
The position is listed as full-time and fully remote in the United Arab Emirates.
Mechanical Services Delivery
- Develop mechanical-services strategies and manage HVAC, chilled water, heating, ventilation, plumbing, drainage, pumps, water systems, fire protection, and related equipment.
- Lead planning from design development through installation, testing, commissioning, handover, and operation.
- Review designs, specifications, drawings, calculations, equipment selections, technical submissions, method statements, and inspection plans.
- Coordinate mechanical services with architectural, structural, electrical, civil, fire-protection, controls, and specialist systems.
- Manage contractors, subcontractors, consultants, suppliers, engineers, and technical teams.
- Monitor installation quality, inspections, testing, commissioning, defects, handover, warranties, and post-handover support.
- Manage procurement and evaluate equipment performance, energy efficiency, lifecycle cost, maintainability, and operational suitability.
- Support commercial assessments involving variations, claims, change orders, progress measurements, and cost control.
- Establish maintenance strategies, investigate failures, lead root-cause analysis, and improve reliability and availability.
- Monitor energy performance and support smart-building technologies, automated controls, remote monitoring, and predictive maintenance.
- Maintain asset registers, maintenance records, drawings, manuals, commissioning data, and technical documentation.
- Ensure health, safety, environmental, fire, statutory, technical, quality, and operational requirements are met.
Leadership and Performance
- Manage technical teams through direction, coaching, performance management, and professional development.
- Establish procedures, maintenance standards, technical guidelines, service levels, and performance indicators.
- Monitor contractor workmanship, response times, quality, safety, compliance, schedules, budgets, and delivery performance.
- Prepare technical reports, project updates, maintenance reports, risk assessments, and management presentations.
- Communicate with clients, property and facilities teams, consultants, contractors, and senior management.
- Support long-term asset planning, replacement strategies, refurbishment programs, capital decisions, and continuous improvement.
Ideal Candidate
- Strong experience in mechanical building services, MEP engineering, HVAC, facilities engineering, construction, building operations, or mechanical maintenance.
- Extensive knowledge of HVAC, chilled water, ventilation, plumbing, pumps, water systems, and related mechanical equipment.
- Experience managing mechanical installation, commissioning, maintenance, and operational activities.
- Strong understanding of mechanical drawings, specifications, calculations, schedules, and technical reports.
- Experience managing mechanical contractors, subcontractors, consultants, and suppliers.
- Knowledge of quality control, inspection, testing, commissioning, standards, building codes, safety, and environmental requirements.
- Project-management, planning, scheduling, cost-control, procurement, and technical-evaluation capabilities.
- Problem-solving, root-cause-analysis, stakeholder-management, communication, and multidisciplinary leadership capabilities.
- Strong commercial awareness and understanding of contractor and service-provider management.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
Systems and Technologies
- Familiarity with CMMS, CAFM, BMS, BIM, or other engineering and facilities-management technologies is advantageous.
- Strong understanding of energy efficiency and sustainable mechanical-system design and operation is expected.
Performance Indicators
Performance is measured through schedule delivery, installation quality, commissioning completion, system availability, reliability, and maintenance completion.
Additional measures include failure reduction, energy efficiency, contractor performance, compliance, safety, documentation quality, incident resolution, procurement, cost, warranty, and stakeholder satisfaction.
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