MEP Design Manager

Job description / Role

Compass Project Consulting is an award-winning, dynamic, and respected project development consultancy, providing high-quality, value-for-money, and fully tailored services to clients across all sectors. As highly regarded project leaders and effective communicators, our Team at Compass has delivered numerous projects for some of the region’s most ambitious and innovative change-makers. Our diverse and disciplined Team facilitates world-class project development solutions.

We are hiring an MEP Design Manager to support a leading UAE developer on a portfolio of high-profile residential and mixed-use projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and review MEP designs (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) through design and tender stages.
• Ensure compliance with local codes, regulations, and sustainability requirements.
• Provide technical input and coordination between architecture, structure, and MEP disciplines.
• Lead design review meetings and support tender evaluations.

• 15 years’ experience in MEP design and project management.
• Strong background in design review and tendering processes.
• UAE and GCC project experience, ideally within mixed-use and residential developments.
• Prior exposure working with developers is essential.

About the Company

We achieve greater project results by offering the best talent, supported by a robust ecosystem, and driven by a common goal. We truly are the ‘Compass’ our clients turn to, for tailored project development consultancy services throughout the MENA region.

Believing the sum of all pieces is stronger, Compass have forged a strategic partnership with Dar Al Arkan, one of the region’s leading real estate developers. Together, we are building a truly progressive and cohesive alliance with the shared vision of enhancing built-environments and ultimately communities, throughout the Middle East and further afield.

Offering an integrated real estate development consultancy, our pooled experience delivers a world-class ecosystem of competencies for our Clients and a Team that will surpass the exacting requirements of each unique project.

As highly regarded project leaders and effective communicators, the Team at Compass delivers remits for some of the region's most ambitious and innovative change-makers, with this in mind, we are always looking for strong personalities to join us in our mission to evolve tomorrow, today.