MEP Systems Integration Manager

Job Summary

The MEP Systems Integration Manager (MEP SIM) serves as a senior technical leader responsible for providing strategic oversight and cross-discipline coordination of mechanical, electrical, controls, and supporting systems across design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and turnover phases for mission-critical projects.

Essential Functions

• Strategic Leadership & Technical Oversight
• Provide strategic oversight and technical leadership for MEP systems across design, procurement, coordination, construction, commissioning, and turnover phases.
• Serve as a technical resource for mission-critical MEP systems integration, quality expectations, commissioning readiness, and owner acceptance requirements.
• Translate project, client, and organizational objectives into actionable technical plans that support schedule, budget, quality, safety, and operational readiness goals.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate cross-discipline technical risks to protect project schedules, cost control, commissioning success, and client acceptance.
• Provide regular technical progress updates, risk assessments, and recommendations to project teams, client stakeholders, and leadership.
• Design, Procurement & OFCI/CFCI Coordination
• Review and validate design documents, specifications, owner standards, contract requirements, and technical submittals, including OFCI and CFCI equipment.
• Verify equipment performance criteria, system integration points, controls requirements, redundancy strategies, quality standards, and owner requirements during submittal and shop drawing development.
• Validate system-level assumptions related to maintainability, operational performance, reliability, serviceability, redundancy, and long-term functionality.
• Support procurement and supply chain coordination for major MEP equipment, ensuring technical requirements, delivery constraints, integration needs, and commissioning impacts are understood and managed.
• Identify design, procurement, or equipment coordination issues early and recommend practical solutions that reduce rework, field conflicts, schedule impacts, and change orders.
• Cook up OFCI/CFCI equipment interfaces from procurement through installation, startup, commissioning, and turnover, ensuring vendor requirements, contractor responsibilities, owner standards, and commissioning expectations are clearly understood and aligned.
• MEP Systems Integration & Field Coordination
• Coordinate across mechanical, electrical, controls, fire protection, architectural, structural, commissioning, quality, and operations stakeholders to ensure integrated project execution.
• Support project teams by troubleshooting and resolving complex or non-standard MEP challenges in the field.
• Review installation sequencing, system interfaces, controls integration, access requirements, maintainability provisions, and readiness dependencies.
• Monitor cross-discipline coordination to ensure MEP systems are installed in alignment with contract documents, owner standards, approved submittals, project quality requirements, and commissioning expectations.
• Collaborate closely with project management, design engineering, supply chain, quality, and field teams, as well as external vendors, commissioning agents, and owner representatives.
• Validate controls integration requirements across mechanical, electrical, equipment vendor, BMS/EPMS, fire alarm, and commissioning stakeholders to reduce gaps between design intent, sequence execution, and field testing.
• Quality Management & Risk Control
• Support quality planning and execution for MEP systems, including inspections, documentation, deficiency tracking, corrective action, and readiness verification.
• Verify that installation quality, documentation completeness, equipment readiness, and system integration criteria support successful startup, functional testing, integrated systems testing, and turnover.
• Aid in root-cause analysis and corrective action planning for technical issues, quality concerns, integration failures, or repeated deficiencies.
• Ensure quality and risk mitigation expectations are communicated clearly to contractors, vendors, commissioning agents, and project stakeholders.
• Promote consistent application of DLB’s construction quality management practices and mission-critical delivery standards.
• Commissioning Readiness & Turnover Support
• Prepare and support teams for commissioning readiness, ensuring testing, documentation, and turnover activities are executed successfully.
• Cook up with commissioning teams to verify system readiness for startup, functional testing, integrated systems testing, and owner acceptance.
• Review commissioning prerequisites, test documentation, issue logs, equipment status, controls readiness, and closeout requirements.
• Support resolution of commissioning issues involving MEP systems, controls sequences, equipment performance, redundancy strategies, documentation, or integration points.
• Ensure lessons learned from commissioning and turnover are documented and incorporated into future project planning and execution.
• Confirm acceptance criteria, test prerequisites, documentation requirements, and turnover expectations are clearly defined before major startup, functional testing, integrated systems testing, and client acceptance milestones.
• Documentation, Reporting & Continuous Improvement
• Maintain accurate technical documentation, issue logs, risk registers, action trackers, progress summaries, and project records.
• Capture lessons learned, document resolved issues, and contribute to continuous improvement across future projects.
• Provide clear written and verbal communication to technical and non-technical audiences regarding risks, recommendations, decisions, and project status.
• Support development of templates, checklists, workflows, and technical standards that improve consistency across MEP systems integration and quality management activities.
• Use construction management, reporting, and data tools to improve visibility, accountability, and decision-making.
• Leadership, Collaboration & Mentorship
• Lead cross-functional collaboration across project management, design, engineering, commissioning, construction, supply chain, quality, vendors, and owner representatives.
• Mentor and coach team members to build technical capability, consistency, and professional growth.
• Support knowledge transfer across teams by sharing technical guidance, lessons learned, and best practices.
• Model professional owner advocacy, sound judgment, proactive communication, and accountability in mission-critical project environments.
• Completion of Assigned Tasks and Deliverables on Time and on Budget

Performs Other Related Duties as Assigned

Position Requirements (Advanced Level)

• Strong working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, controls, and supporting systems in mission-critical environments.
• Strong working knowledge of commissioning processes for electrical, mechanical, and controls systems in mission-critical environments.
• Knowledge of OFCI and CFCI equipment coordination, vendor documentation, technical submittals, shop drawings, installation requirements, and commissioning dependencies.
• Knowledge of industry trends, construction procedures, and best practices for mission-critical MEP delivery.
• Knowledge of materials, methods, and tools involved in the construction of mission critical, commercial buildings or other structures.
• Knowledge of design review, constructability, operability, maintainability, serviceability, and system integration principles.
• Knowledge of the importance of the Method of Procedure (MOP) process and work notifications, and operational risk controls.
• Demonstrated leadership experience coordinating multi-disciplinary teams, vendors, contractors, commissioning agents, and owner representatives.
• Strong understanding of health, safety, and environmental (HSE) policies and procedures, including NFPA 70E, LOTO, and OSHA standards.
• Skilled in reviewing and validating design documents, specifications, owner standards, technical submittals, equipment criteria, and contract requirements.
• Skilled in identifying risks, evaluating complex technical issues, and developing practical, data-driven solutions.
• Skilled in troubleshooting complex or non-standard MEP challenges and minimizing field conflicts, schedule impacts, rework, and change orders.
• Skilled in coordinating system integration points, controls requirements, redundancy strategies, performance criteria, and commissioning readiness activities.
• Skilled in stakeholder management and representing the owner with professionalism when interacting with contractors, designers, vendors, commissioning agents, and clients.
• Skilled in clear, concise communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Skilled in organizing documentation, reporting, risk assessments, technical updates, and action trackers.
• Skilled at using construction management software such as Procore, BIM 360/ACC, and Bluebeam.
• Skilled at using MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams), along with exceptional organizational skills for file management.
• Skilled in mentoring and developing technical staff.
• Ability to leverage AI and emerging technologies to streamline workflows, optimize operational processes, and contribute to company-wide innovation.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with onsite and remote team members.
• Ability to analyze complex information and develop plans to address identified issues.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and work under pressure to meet close deadlines.