About the Role
Mace is seeking an experienced Associate Project Director - MEP to join our team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This role is integral to delivering one of the largest and most ambitious programmes in Saudi Arabia, a major mixed-use development encompassing sports facilities, entertainment, arts, and associated infrastructure. As an Engineer on this project, you will be accountable for leading MEP design management, technical assurance, and compliance across the entire programme, ensuring the delivery of safe, efficient, and fully coordinated MEP solutions from concept through to completion. You will collaborate closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams, specialist designers, and construction stakeholders to ensure MEP systems meet the highest standards of performance, quality, sustainability, and operational resilience expected of a world-class sporting venue. This is a full-time position within a dynamic organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage all MEP engineering and design management activities in the Engineer role across the project lifecycle.
- Provide technical leadership and governance for MEP disciplines, ensuring alignment with international standards, statutory requirements, and best practice.
- Manage the review, coordination, and approval of MEP design submissions, calculations, specifications, and technical reports.
- Oversee interface management between architectural, structural, and MEP disciplines to ensure fully integrated design solutions.
- Chair and contribute to technical workshops, design reviews, and coordination meetings.
- Support value engineering, buildability, and whole life performance optimisation of MEP systems.
- Provide guidance on energy efficiency, sustainability, low carbon design, and operational resilience suitable for a large-scale sports venue.
- Manage and mentor MEP engineers and design managers, fostering high performance and technical excellence.
- Support procurement and tender activities, including technical evaluations of specialist contractors and suppliers.
- Monitor construction-stage activities including technical queries, inspections, testing, commissioning, and handover support.
- Ensure robust technical risk management, change control, and quality assurance processes are applied throughout delivery.
Qualifications and Experience
- Proven experience in a senior MEP design management or engineering leadership role on large, complex developments.
- Strong background working in an Engineer, Consultant, or Design Authority role.
- Experience on sports, stadiums, arenas, or complex public assembly projects is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated capability across the full project lifecycle, from early design through construction and handover.
- Excellent understanding of international MEP design standards, codes, and regulations.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience working in the Middle East and with fast-paced, high-profile programmes is advantageous.
- Must meet necessary visa criteria for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and have relevant work experience working on high-valued projects/programmes for a project management consultancy business, which are required for immigration and client approval.
Required Skills and Competencies
- MEP design management
- Technical assurance
- Compliance
- MEP engineering
- Design management
- Adherence to international standards, statutory requirements, and best practice
- Review and coordination of design submissions
- Interface management between disciplines
- Value engineering, buildability, and whole life performance optimisation
- Expertise in energy efficiency, sustainability, low carbon design, and operational resilience
- Mentoring and leadership
- Procurement and tender activities, including technical evaluations
- Monitoring construction-stage activities (technical queries, inspections, testing, commissioning, handover support)
- Technical risk management, change control, and quality assurance
- Stakeholder management
- Knowledge of MEP design standards, codes, and regulations
- Strong communication and teamwork abilities
- Problem-solving skills
Work Context
This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role requires a minimum of 10 years of experience. Mace is the company providing this opportunity.