Electrical Project Lead (Associate Director) - MEP in London

Join to apply for the Associate Project Director - MEP role at Mace. At Mace, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We believe in creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities and societies across the globe.

The Project: A large scale commercial development in the city of London.

Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey:

• Safety first – Going home safe and well
• Client focus – Deliver on our promise
• Integrity – Always do the right thing
• Create opportunity – For our people to excel

You will be responsible for:

• Driving the MEP team on the project via demonstration of professional and respectful behaviours, providing clear direction and encouraging compliance with Mace standards.
• Ensuring the successful delivery of the MEP services including programme management, health safety and wellbeing, quality and commissioning of the project.
• Partnering with multiple key project stakeholders, forming strong working relationships with the client, consultants, trade contractors and other team leaders.
• Driving the tendering process and providing expert technical and commercial support to bid teams and sector leadership, ensuring adequate internal and external resource needs are identified and agreed.
• Contributing to procurement strategies and ensuring specialist packages and appointments are procured against the agreed scope and budget.
• Directing the initial review of contracts and scope, assisting in the preparation of budgets, value engineering, schedules and trade contracts, and providing support to the commercial teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Inputting into the creation and deployment of project strategic plans in conjunction with the Mace operating framework and strategic priorities, such as prefabrication (C2P), commissioning and safety.
• Directing design reviews on information provided by consultants and trade specialists, checking for compliance, coordination and completeness, including embodied carbon and operational energy associated with the MEP Services design, aligned to RIBA and BSRIA design frameworks.
• Driving the delivery strategies and programmes for project phases, ensuring key milestones, interfaces, dependencies, logistics and work sequencing are considered.
• Developing and implementing commissioning strategies in line with the Mace commissioning standards inclusive of IST approach, ATPs and soft landings.
• Executing productivity assessments using digital technologies to ensure the project/package is on schedule. Identifying trends, key issues or critical path risks.
• Driving project close‐out to ensure all elements of completion are delivered to a high standard, such as commissioning, as-built drawings, O & M manuals and client training.
• Proactively driving the identification of risk and the production of mitigation plans. Identifying and overseeing the review of issues to drive continuous improvement and provide lessons learned through the knowledge share process.
• Managing, influencing and negotiating with key senior stakeholders (up to c‐suite). Managing a large team (or several teams) of direct reports, driving the appropriate behaviours to achieve success and KPIs, including a continuous improvement culture.
• Providing performance management, technical and career development and coaching.
• Working collaboratively towards the common goal of net zero carbon transition, and sharing responsibility for the proactive identification and management of the associated carbon emissions and reductions during the delivery of work.

You will need to have:

• Trade/technical apprenticeship or graduate development programme.
• Formal engineering training (HNC, HND, BTEC or equivalent).
• SMSTS and CSCS card.
• Advanced knowledge of engineering systems including design standards and frameworks, installation techniques, best practice, engineering processes, prefabrication and system commissioning requirements, sufficient to manage the project team on programme from an initial tender period through to contract completion.
• Advanced knowledge of construction build elements, including sequencing and dependencies to ensure consideration, collaboration and coordination with other work packages.
• Advanced knowledge of planning processes and management, with sufficient understanding of key construction release requirements, critical path, scheduling and commissioning activities to allow control from pre‐construction through to practical completion.
• Advanced knowledge of commercial management to allow commercial control of a package(s), inclusive of procurement processes, change control, programme impact, risk mitigation, cost to complete and commercial forecasting across the project.
• Advanced knowledge of health, safety and welfare core elements such as working from height, electrical safety, fire safety, logistics and lifting, to provide awareness and ensure application of safe management across the project.
• Advanced knowledge of quality assurance process and management and commissioning of single systems as well as the integration of systems through cause & effect, BMS and IST integration periods to allow full completion of the project in line with programme.

You will also have:

• Drive high standards and ensure consistency in our approach.
• Effective stakeholder management.
• Strong presentation skills; present clearly and confidently with their audience in mind.
• Good communication skills – written, oral and listening. Innovative and adaptable; not fazed by challenges and open to new ways of working.
• Strong analytical skills – numeric, statistical and written detail.
• Collaborative and inclusive – harness the power of the collective for impact/progress.
• Understand the business strategic goals and encourage their deployment.
• Experience delivering projects in excess of £25m+ MEP value.
• Experience in the relevant construction sector.
• Demonstrated track record of successful projects/contributions.
• Proficiency in building services or a specified engineering discipline.

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all of the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation. We are also open to discussing part‐time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.

Primary Location: London, United Kingdom

Employment Type: Full‐time

Schedule: Regular

Posted: 29 Oct 2025