Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
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Role description:
The Senior Manager – MEP will lead MEP design, coordination, and project management activities for major international construction projects. This role is part of the Design Assurance & Value Engineering (DA&VE) team within the Client’s Centre of Excellence (COE) Team and is responsible for ensuring designs align with client briefs, project goals, and industry standards, while driving innovation and sustainability across all MEP services. The position demands technical oversight, strong stakeholder engagement, and effective contribution to project delivery within a global, multidisciplinary environment. This role will be providing services on a variety of large programs being undertaken globally. Accordingly, this role must be prepared to work hours appropriate to a global delivery model.
Role accountabilities:
- Design Coordination & Discipline Integration: Review and validate MEP designs, drawings, and calculations to ensure alignment with the client brief while coordinating with architectural and structural disciplines to resolve clashes and ensure seamless system integration.
- Techno-Commercial Analysis: Conduct comprehensive techno-commercial evaluations of MEP schemes and innovative technologies, ensuring that all adopted strategies are cost-effective, high-performing, and aligned with the project's commercial design intent.
- Strategic Stakeholder Liaison: Act as the primary technical link between client teams, consultants, and senior management, translating complex technical MEP concepts into transparent project updates and actionable insights.
- Value Engineering & Sustainability Innovation: Drive value engineering initiatives to identify cost-saving opportunities and integrate sustainable design principles, energy-efficient measures, and smart building technologies across all MEP systems.
- Technical Oversight & Quality Assurance: Oversee the integrity of technical specifications within tender documentation and ensure all designs comply with international building codes, safety regulations, and professional ethical standards.
- Commissioning Strategy & Handover: Lead the commissioning, testing, and verification process of MEP systems to ensure peak performance and manage the successful handover of documentation and system designs to the Capital Management team.
- Project Governance & Risk Mitigation: Manage the flow of technical information between external contractors and internal teams, while contributing to the project risk register to identify and mitigate potential MEP-related operational challenges.
Qualifications & Experience:
- A Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering is the minimum educational requirement.
- A minimum of 10 to 12 years of experience in MEP design, coordination, project management and Commissioning management.
- Experience working on the client side, or within a consultancy role, managing the client's interests and acting as their representative, is highly valued.
- Demonstrating a strong understanding of MEP systems (High side & low side), including HVAC, Electrical, Firefighting, IBMS and plumbing systems, along with a deep familiarity with relevant international building codes, standards, and regulations, is essential.
- A good grasp of the construction process, including site issues, coordination with contractors, and installation oversight, is crucial.
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why equality and inclusion is at the forefront of all our activities. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer; women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, caste, creed, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
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