Associate Project Director - MEP in Norwich

Associate Project Director (MEP) – Nottingham

This role sits within one of our largest Business Units, Public, Science & Technology, and involves leading the MEP services on a large scale construction project in Nottingham. The Associate Project Director will be accountable for delivery of MEP services, ensuring agreement on time, budget, safety, and quality outcomes. Responsibilities include driving high‑quality, time‑efficient, profitable delivery, providing leadership and accountability for compliance, governance, assurance, and managing technical and construction teams.

You’ll Be Responsible For

• Drive the MEP team on the project via demonstration of professional and respectful behaviours, providing clear direction, guidance and the encouragement of compliance with Mace standards.
• Ensure the successful delivery of the MEP services including management of the Programme, Health Safety & Wellbeing, Quality & Commissioning of the project.
• Partner with multiple key project stakeholders, forming strong working relationships with the Client, Consultants, Trade Contractors and other team leaders.
• Drive the delivery of the tendering process and provide expert technical and commercial support to bid teams and sector leadership/bid leads.
• Ensure adequate internal and external resource needs are identified and agreed.
• Contribute to procurement strategies and ensure specialist packages and appointments are procured against the agreed scope demarcation and to budget.
• Direct the initial review of contracts and scope, assist in the preparation of budgets, value engineering, schedules and trade contracts and provide support to the commercial teams throughout the project lifecycle in terms of reviewing progress or resolving issues.
• Input into and drive the delivery strategies and programmes for project phases, ensuring key milestones, interfaces, dependencies, logistics and work sequencing are considered.
• Proactively drive the identification of risk and the production of mitigation plans.
• Manage, influence & negotiate with key senior stakeholders (up to c‑suite).
• Manage a large team (or several teams) of direct reports, driving the appropriate behaviours to achieve success & KPIs, including a continuous improvement culture.
• Provide performance management, technical & career development and coaching.

You’ll Need To Have

• 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, tasks / works scheduling and commissioning activities to allow for planning and control of the project from Pre‑construction through to Practical Completion.
• Advanced knowledge of health, safety & welfare core elements such as working from height, electrical safety, fire safety, logistics and lifting, to provide awareness and ensure application in the safe management across the project.
• Advanced knowledge of Quality Assurance process and management & 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.

Additional Information

We are also open to discussing part‑time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.

Primary Location

GB-GB-Norwich

Organization

Mace Construct Limited

Schedule

Regular

Job Type

Full‑time

Job Posting

26-Jun-2026, 9:49:27 AM