Senior MEP Coordinator

About the Role

Dar Al Riyadh Consultants is seeking a Senior MEP Coordinator to lead site-wide multidisciplinary coordination of MEP, civil, infrastructure, irrigation, landscape, and architectural systems. This full-time position is based in Riyadh and requires a minimum of 10 years of experience. The role involves establishing and managing project coordination procedures, workflows, responsibilities, and deliverable schedules, as well as developing and maintaining interface matrices.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead site-wide multidisciplinary coordination of MEP, civil, infrastructure, irrigation, landscape, and architectural systems.
• Establish and manage project MEP coordination procedures, workflows, responsibilities, and deliverable schedules.
• Develop and maintain an interface matrix identifying dependencies among all disciplines, contractors, and utility providers.
• Coordinate various utility systems including pressurized irrigation mains, treated-sewage-effluent networks, potable-water systems, stormwater drainage, sewerage, power, telecommunications, and low-current services.
• Identify and resolve clashes between underground utilities, lake structures, cart paths, roads, foundations, landscape features, and building services.
• Verify horizontal and vertical clearances, utility crossings, invert levels, access requirements, and maintenance zones.
• Review the constructability and sequencing of congested utility corridors and critical service crossings.
• Lead reviews of Combined Services Drawings and Structural, Electrical, and Mechanical drawings for the clubhouse and auxiliary buildings.
• Confirm that coordinated drawings incorporate the requirements of architectural, structural, fire and life-safety, landscape, and specialist systems.
• Review plant-room layouts, service shafts, ceiling zones, risers, corridors, and equipment-access routes.
• Verify that adequate space is maintained for equipment installation, operation, removal, and future maintenance.
• Chair multidisciplinary and multi-trade spatial coordination workshops.
• Maintain clash registers, interface logs, decision records, and action trackers.
• Assign coordination actions to responsible parties and monitor their closure within agreed timeframes.
• Review BIM clash-detection reports and confirm that identified conflicts are resolved before construction.
• Use Navisworks, Revit, AutoCAD, and other approved platforms to review federated models and coordinated drawings.
• Verify that revised coordination solutions are reflected consistently across models, drawings, schedules, and technical submissions.
• Coordinate interfaces between irrigation pump stations, electrical panels, control systems, standby power, and associated mechanical equipment.
• Coordinate lake-filling, circulation, and aeration systems with electrical power, controls, drainage, and landscape requirements.
• Coordinate the Building Management System with HVAC systems, central plant, electrical monitoring, fire alarm, and other integrated building systems.
• Review interfaces between utility-agency connections and internal project networks.
• Coordinate technical requirements with utility agencies and monitor the closure of connection-related actions.
• Review contractors’ shop drawings, coordination drawings, builders’ work drawings, method statements, and technical queries.
• Verify that sleeves, openings, embedded items, plinths, supports, trenches, and service penetrations are coordinated before construction.
• Coordinate with structural and civil teams to prevent unauthorized cutting, coring, or modification of completed works.
• Conduct regular site inspections to confirm that installations comply with approved coordinated drawings.
• Identify field deviations and direct contractors to update drawings, models, and installation proposals accordingly.
• Resolve site conflicts promptly to minimize abortive work, delays, variations, and disruption to completed finishes.
• Monitor MEP and utility coordination activities against the approved construction and commissioning programs.
• Support the planning and sequencing of testing, pre-commissioning, and commissioning activities.
• Develop or review integrated testing and commissioning matrices covering mechanical, electrical, controls, and life-safety systems.
• Oversee Integrated Systems Testing across all relevant disciplines during project closeout.
• Coordinate testing interfaces among fire alarm, smoke control, emergency power, elevators, access control, BMS, and other integrated systems.
• Verify that testing scripts, prerequisites, responsibilities, acceptance criteria, and witnessing requirements are clearly established.
• Track commissioning observations, failed tests, corrective actions, and retesting through final acceptance.
• Coordinate training, demonstrations, and technical handover to the Client or facility-management team.
• Verify contractor redline markups against actual site installations.
• Ensure that final as-built drawings and BIM models accurately reflect on-site conditions.
• Review MEP sections of operation and maintenance manuals, asset registers, warranties, and closeout dossiers.
• Prepare periodic coordination reports covering clashes, design decisions, outstanding interfaces, risks, and action status.
• Advise the Project Manager on critical coordination issues, potential delays, and required management interventions.
• Ensure compliance with applicable Saudi codes, Civil Defense requirements, utility regulations, Client procedures, quality standards, and occupational health and safety requirements.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Building Services Engineering, or a closely related discipline from a recognized university.
• Minimum of 15 years of professional experience in multidisciplinary MEP coordination on major building and infrastructure developments.
• Demonstrated experience working within engineering supervision consultancies, project-management consultancies, or equivalent Client-representative environments.
• Proven experience coordinating horizontal civil infrastructure with complex vertical building systems.
• Strong knowledge of mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire and life-safety, BMS, low-current, and utility systems.
• Experience coordinating underground wet and dry utilities, pump stations, plant rooms, and specialist external systems.
• Demonstrated experience reviewing Combined Services Drawings, SEM drawings, builders’ work drawings, and coordinated shop drawings.
• Advanced proficiency in Navisworks clash detection, AutoCAD, and BIM/Revit workflows.
• Experience using federated models, clash registers, and model-based coordination processes.
• Strong understanding of testing, commissioning, integrated systems testing, and project closeout.
• Ability to interpret complex multidisciplinary drawings, specifications, schematics, and technical submissions.
• Fluency in written and spoken English is mandatory.