Sr. MEP Engineer/ Practice Leader

Job Title:Sr. MEP Engineer/ Practice Leader
Job ID:90572
Location: Phoenix, Arizona

Practice Building & Business Development

• Lead the growth of an MEP engineering practice focused on healthcare, hospitals, data centers, and mission-critical facilities.
• Serve as a true seller-doer, balancing business development with technical and project leadership.
• Develop relationships with hospital systems, healthcare organizations, data center owners/operators, architects, developers, general contractors, and other strategic partners.
• Leverage existing industry relationships while developing new clients and referral channels throughout Phoenix and the greater Arizona market.
• Identify, develop, and pursue new business opportunities.
• Lead and contribute to proposals, scopes of work, fee development, project budgets, presentations, interviews, and client strategy.
• Build a sustainable pipeline of repeat and referral business.
• Serve as a trusted technical and business advisor to clients.
• Take ownership of opportunities from initial relationship development through pursuit, award, delivery, and account expansion.

Engineering & Project Leadership

• Provide senior technical direction for complex mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering projects.
• Remain hands-on and engaged in engineering design, calculations, specifications, equipment selection, technical reviews, and problem-solving.
• Lead projects from conceptual design through construction administration, commissioning, and closeout.
• Oversee projects involving hospitals, outpatient facilities, healthcare campuses, data centers, and other mission-critical environments.
• Coordinate with architects, owners, contractors, developers, consultants, and internal engineering teams.
• Review designs for reliability, redundancy, constructability, maintainability, energy efficiency, and code compliance.
• Provide technical oversight and QA/QC of engineering deliverables.
• Manage project scope, staffing, schedules, budgets, client expectations, and profitability.
• Participate in site assessments, field investigations, construction meetings, and client presentations.

Healthcare & Mission-Critical Expertise

Relevant project experience may include:

• Acute-care hospitals and medical centers
• Outpatient and ambulatory surgical facilities
• Complex clinical environments
• Healthcare renovations and expansions
• Central utility plants
• Data centers and mission-critical facilities
• Critical and emergency power systems
• Generators and UPS systems
• HVAC and central plant systems
• Cooling and heat-rejection systems
• Medical gas systems
• Building automation and controls
• Fire/life safety systems
• High-density computing environments
• Redundant mechanical and electrical infrastructure
• Infrastructure upgrades within active facilities
• Phased construction requiring minimal interruption to ongoing operations

Build & Lead the Team

• Recruit, mentor, develop, and retain engineers, designers, project managers, and technical professionals.
• Determine the initial team structure and grow the organization as revenue and project demand increase.
• Develop junior and mid-level engineers into future technical and project leaders.
• Establish engineering standards, workflows, QA/QC procedures, and project-delivery best practices.
• Collaborate across engineering disciplines and offices to provide integrated client solutions.
• Develop a culture centered around technical excellence, accountability, client service, collaboration, and growth.
• Balance utilization, project delivery, hiring, revenue generation, and profitability

What you must have

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Architectural Engineering, or related engineering discipline.
• Approximately 10-15+ years of progressive MEP engineering experience preferred.
• Significant experience with healthcare/hospital and/or data center/mission-critical projects.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license preferred.
• Arizona PE registration or ability to obtain Arizona registration is highly desirable.
• Strong technical background with demonstrated experience delivering complex engineering projects.
• Seller-doer or practice-builder capabilities with a history of developing client relationships and contributing to business growth.
• Understanding of the full business-development lifecycle, including opportunity development, proposal strategy, fee development, budgeting, project delivery, and account growth.