Associate Director MEP (Buildings)

About Mace

Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to enhance projects and redefine ambition. The company's values guide its consulting approach and define the professionals sought to join its team.

The Role: Associate Director MEP (Buildings)

Mace is seeking an Associate Director MEP (Buildings) to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This part-time role involves working on a significant mixed-use development programme in Saudi Arabia, which includes sports facilities, entertainment, arts, and associated infrastructure. The Associate Director MEP will manage technical excellence across the commercial offices business unit, focusing on translating vision into investment-ready assets. The role requires providing specialist design assurance, coordinating multidisciplinary consultants, driving compliance, sustainability, and smart building outcomes, optimising value, managing performance, and supporting stakeholder approvals from concept through to construction-ready delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Champion safety, ensuring compliance with HSE standards and fostering a positive safety culture.
• Manage end-to-end project delivery, maintaining quality systems and supporting senior leaders to achieve programme milestones.
• Oversee budgets, risks, and ethical governance to contribute to long-term business sustainability.
• Lead collaborative project teams, driving performance, stakeholder engagement, and best practice innovation across all project phases.
• Lead MEP design, assurance, procurement, and technical coordination.
• Drive consultant performance, compliance, risk mitigation, and approvals.
• Build collaborative teams, monitor milestones, and deliver coordinated, high-quality outcomes.
• Provide MEP leadership to design teams, managing designs and coordinating technical, procurement, commercial, risk, and opportunities management across MEP systems and interfaces.
• Support design teams in undertaking technical design reviews to ensure compliance with project requirements and strategy.
• Coordinate with external consultants through design stages, ensuring conformity to project objectives and providing recommendations.
• Review outputs of design consultants, including documentation, to ensure compliance with project requirements.
• Manage coordination and collaboration between development, delivery, construction, consultants, contractors, and authorities to identify design risks and propose mitigating strategies.
• Ensure design and development teams maintain strict compliance with industry standards, codes, regulations, and COBU design technical, sustainability, and smart building guidelines.
• Assess Consultant and Contractor MEP submittals for conformity to specifications, including correct processes and procedures.
• Manage functional MEP review and report on the progress of design/engineering deliverables based on agreed milestone gates and earned value.
• Act as MEP technical liaison for design matters related to contracting, procurement, and requisitions.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in a relevant field.
• Experience in managing MEP technical excellence in commercial offices.
• Demonstrated ability to lead integrated teams throughout project phases.
• Proficiency in design assurance, consultant coordination, and compliance.

Company Values

Mace operates on core values that include Safety first, ensuring a safe, diverse, and inclusive working environment. Client focus is paramount, with a commitment to delivering on promises and building long-term relationships. Integrity guides all actions, influencing positive outcomes while adhering to compliance obligations. The company aims to Create opportunity for its people to excel through a culture of continuous improvement.

Application Information

Mace is an inclusive employer and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates. Flexible and hybrid working options may be available for this role.