MEP and Technical Services Associate Director

Job description / Role

The Associate Director of MEP will be responsible to lead all design and and delivery of technical works within the department, managing a team of mechanical, electrical, structural engineers.

Client Details

The client is a leading Authority in the Kingdom, leading a large-scale mixed-use development in Riyadh spanning across assets like Residential, Commercial, Retail, F&B amongst others.

Description

- The Associate Director will be responsible for leading an wide team and ensuring an independent review of the executed works on site. The role requires and individual who is responsible to produce an observation report and regularly update the higher management on the following topics:
- Compliance of executed works with approved IFC/Shop Drawings
- Compliance of executed works with approved Material Submittals
- Compliance of executed works with approved Method Statements
- Quality of the executed works
- Furthermore, the role will be responsible to overlook PMC and Site Supervision Consultants performance and be the key point of contact to coordinate the required.

Strategic Contribution:
- The role is likely to offer significant visibility and prestige, with opportunities for career advancement in the future.
- Networking opportunities with top global designers, architects, and leaders in the industry
- Opportunity to contribute to a key project part of the 2030 Saudi Arabia's Vision

Leadership:
- Maintain exceptional behavioural qualities in line with company expectations to promote collaboration and highly motivated design team to ensure successful delivery of company's vision of producing leaders of the future.
- To inspire and encourage stakeholders to continuously improve their performance.

People Management:
- Work with all members of the ESSR, TSG, Design and Delivery Team to complete the required tasks.
- Levelling of the workload between the different team members as required to maintain a sustainable delivery model based on the team capacity.
- Manage both internal and external stakeholders to obtain the required inputs/decisions for successful completion of the required tasks.

Policies, Systems, Processes, Procedures, Standards and Reports:
- Input into the preparation of accurate and timely functional statements and reports to meet corporate and functional requirements, policies, and standards.
- Providing evaluation of PMC's and Consultant's site supervision performance.

Safety, Quality & Environment:
- Adherence to all company safety, quality, and environment policies.

Continuous Improvement:
- Maintain lessons learnt register and share the knowledge with relevant company teams to add value on new projects.
- Contribute to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of the project delivery.

Managerial:
- Lead, advise, and motivate PMCs and Consultants to champion the company's culture, values, and vision.

Project Management:
- Lead meetings with the PMCs and Site Supervision Consultants to ensure that observed non-compliant works are addressed in timely manner, identifying risk and areas of concerns earlier on.
- Provide guidance and where necessary clear direction to stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of project.
- Preparation of the workload histograms for the team, and rotation plans between the assets.

Cost Management:
- Provide technical advice to commercial teams wherever is required.
- Highlighting an opportunities for the VE wherever possible.

Reporting:
- Provide timely input into the Site Observation reporting dashboards.
- Provide monthly presentation to the upper management on the site observation findings.


Job Offer:
- The role is likely to offer significant visibility and prestige, with opportunities for career advancement in the future.
- Opportunity to contribute to a key project part of the 2030 Saudi Arabia's Vision.

- An experience professional with at least 17 years of experience.
- Minimum of a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or other relevant fields.
- Ideally the candidate should have CEng, PMP or LEED Certification.
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders.
- Pro-active approach to problem solving with high sense of urgency and ability to prioritise based on project needs.
- Knowledge of building systems, energy technologies, sustainability schemes, international and local design codes.
- Overall experience in would ideally span across the project inception to completion.
- Ability to lead meetings and take corrective actions where required.
- Knowledge of local and international codes and standards
- Knowledge of local authority requirements
- Design/Shop drawing review competency
- Material Submittal review competency
- Method Statement review competency.

About the Company

Michael Page is one of the world's leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.

The Group has operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. In the Middle East we focus on the areas of:

Finance & Accounting Banking & Financial Services Procurement Property & Construction Engineering & Supply Chain Oil & Gas Technical and Engineering Human Resources Sales Marketing Technology Secretarial Executive Search Legal

The Group operates through 161 offices in 33 countries and employs over 5,000 employees worldwide.