MEP Engineer Job Description and Responsibilities

General:

Oversight of global engineering and technical procedures, standards and support for APAC & EMEA Real Estate 650,000 sqft commercial facilities portfolio, and for functional consultation at enterprise level. This position will be the subject matter expert (SME) for commercial building design, construction, operations and maintenance across the Enterprise. Position provides expert counsel to the organisation managed and non-managed facilities. Implementing these processes and gaining traction across organisation will require personal leadership, influence, and engagement at all levels of the organization. Role must have excellent communication, strong change leadership / change management and influencing skills.

Technical/Qualifications

• A registered professional engineer with a minimum of 10 years project detail design, management experience in commercial building HVAC, mechanical, plumbing, and electrical design; as well as fluency in related disciplines.
• 10 years of experience in commercial facility management including housekeeping, landscaping, security, preventive maintenance, repair/requested maintenance, utilities/energy management, capital planning and budgeting and facilities planning.
• 10 years of progressive experience in commercial construction project management.
• Additional progressive industry qualifications such as registered PE, and other qualifications in various trade associates such as a LEED memberships and other recognition ASHRAE, commissioning agent, energy management, project management professional, etc. are a plus.
• Experience with designing, deploying and managing building automation and control systems to monitor building performance.
• Asset management experience including condition assessment (both transactional due diligence, as well as to support long-term asset management and capital planning), development of multi-year capital renewal/reinvestment strategies, and Facilities Planning.
• International project and cross-culture operation experience highly desirable.

Engineering Design Review

• Consult on building design. Use the benchmarking tool to inform trade-off discussions for overall building design and cost, materials & methods, infrastructure design (reliability and redundancy), safety in design, service and maintenance access and life-cycle cost.
• Review design and construction documents for projects for compatibility with established engineering practice, codes and standards, safety, maintainability.
• Support the creation of new technical standards and guidelines to support facility operations. Frame new project/opportunity to bring organisation portfolio operational/design technologies in line with latest industry practices.
• Review and advise on Management of Change (MOC) documentation for proposed changes.
• Technical reviews cover the full range of engineering disciplines, particularly given the resource-limited  RE Technical function. This position requires individuals with practical application experience across the range of engineering disciplines (mechanical plumbing, electrical, structural, civil, control systems, etc.), and relationships with established SME’s they can leverage when needed.
• Review design/build packages from outside developers for technical and commercial content and advise other business units of the relative benefits and risks of the various proposals.
• Travel and engage in conference calls outside of local business hours, as required to support these activities.

Consultation/Problem Solving

• Respond to inquiries and consult with various business units as a subject matter expert in commercial building performance, design, construction, operations and maintenance, and support global, diagnostic problem-solving.
• Develop and document standardized processes and tools to increase consistency, operating efficiency and reduce costs.
• Encourage consistent use of standardized processes and tools across the enterprise.
• Engage outside consultants as needed to resolve complex issues outside area of direct expertise.
• Participate in various functional Communities of Practice, and interface with other corporate SME’s in CTC and other Business Units.
• Travel and engage in conference calls outside of local business hours, as required to support these activities.

Commissioning/Operations Planning

• Provide technical oversight to commissioning activities for projects and facilitate the formal “acceptance” of completed projects (validate performance as specified).
• Source and engage outside consultants to support global demand pull from the core business.
• Provide operations planning support and support formal Operations Readiness Reviews and Pre-Start-up Safety Reviews.
• Review building performance data to ensure building systems perform as-designed and reliably deliver specified environmental conditions and energy performance.
• Benchmark building energy performance against Energy Star, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), and other industry standards.
• Travel and engage in conference calls outside of local business hours, as required to support these activities.

Asset Management

• The company operates building assets across the globe in a variety of settings ranging from portable structures in remote camps to the corporate headquarters. The “asset owners” for these locations are responsible for the stewardship of these fixed assets, but often without any formal training in engineering, asset management or design. This role requires strong interpersonal and communications skills to actively engage key resources (often in other business units whose key focus is oil & gas production) to focus on the stewardship of these capital assets.
• Work with Site (and Regional Facility Manager) Managers, Planning, Global Projects and Real Estate Strategy to identify and plan for appropriate capital renewal strategy for aging sites approaching the end-of-life-cycle. Encourage cost-effective capital renewal supporting the planning of larger, whole-building renovation and re-stack projects over one-off equipment replacement projects in fully-occupied buildings.
• Travel and engage in conference calls outside of local business hours, as required to support these activities.