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Head of MEP Systems

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🌐 Spain, Portugal, +3 more countries – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

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Posted on Utopia's careers page, not through a job board

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Utopia

11 - 50 employees

Utopia is a mysterious company with little publicly available information. Its website currently only displays the message 'COMING SOON' and provides contact information alongside a job posting section. The nature of its business or industry focus is not specified at this time.

📋 Description

• Lead MEP design strategy and technical reviews across projects and design stages. • Establish and maintain MEP standards, design briefs, deliverable requirements and review procedures. • Guide the global MEP team and coordinate specialist resources across projects. • Review project briefs, concepts, calculations, drawings, specifications, schedules and equipment selections. • Identify design gaps, technical risks and coordination issues, and drive them to resolution. • Coordinate MEP systems with architecture, interiors, structure, landscape and specialist equipment. • Ensure designs are buildable, maintainable, code-compliant and suited to each project’s location and operating requirements. • Protect comfort, reliability, energy and water performance, and guest experience. • Lead technical reviews and value engineering while balancing cost, programme, quality and long-term performance. • Coordinate with local engineers and consultants on authority requirements and statutory submissions. • Support procurement and delivery teams with tender reviews, technical clarifications and proposed substitutions. • Provide technical oversight during construction, inspections, commissioning, integrated systems testing and handover. • Track design decisions, changes, risks and unresolved actions, escalating material issues promptly. • Develop reusable standards, specifications, technical libraries and lessons learned across the portfolio.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Building Services Engineering; a relevant master’s degree or professional registration is an advantage. • Significant MEP design experience, including leadership of teams, consultants or multidisciplinary packages. • Proven experience delivering very high-end luxury residential and hospitality projects, such as private villas, luxury resorts and boutique hotels. • Experience overseeing MEP design from concept through construction, commissioning or handover. • Strong knowledge of integrated HVAC, electrical, plumbing, fire protection and building systems. • Experience coordinating international project teams and local consultants. • Familiarity with Revit, Navisworks, BIM coordination and relevant engineering design tools. • Excellent written and spoken English. • Proactive, hands-on leadership, with a track record of anticipating issues and driving solutions through to completion. • Strong technical judgement and the ability to manage priorities across multiple projects. • Excellent communication, coordination and decision-making skills. • Ability to review and challenge technical documents and explain complex issues clearly. • Practical approach to design risk, buildability, maintenance and value engineering. • Experience in tropical, coastal or remote locations. • Spanish or Portuguese language skills.

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to build and shape the People function of an international luxury hospitality business. • Direct involvement in strategic organisational decisions and meaningful transformation. • High autonomy, ownership, and visibility with senior leadership. • International exposure, remote work, and occasional travel. • Entrepreneurial environment with a lean, collaborative, multidisciplinary team.

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