MEP Systems Integration Manager

MEP Systems Integration Manager

DLB Associates is a premier engineering and consulting firm specializing in innovative, mission-critical solutions across hyperscale data centers, advanced infrastructure, and high-performance building systems. With over four decades of expertise, we partner with some of the world's most influential companies to design and optimize environments that demand precision, scalability, and resilience.

Join us and be part of a team where your voice matters, your work makes an impact, and your growth is a shared priority.

Position Location: Hybrid - Buffalo, NY. 75100% travel across the U.S. unless assigned to an extended project. Must be located near a major US airport.

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.

This position blends MEP construction management, OFCI/CFCI equipment coordination, commissioning readiness, and quality assurance responsibilities to ensure systems are properly designed, procured, installed, integrated, tested, documented, and accepted by the client. The MEP Systems Integration Manager proactively identifies technical risks, validates system-level assumptions, resolves complex MEP challenges, and supports successful project delivery with a strong focus on schedule protection, cost control, commissioning success, operability, maintainability, reliability, and long-term functionality.

The MEP SIM will be self-directed on day-to-day work and receive high level instruction on new projects, tasks, or assignments. Will execute and lead teams and projects, tasks, or assignments of complex scope. May coordinate activities of other personnel.

The MEP SIM will communicate and operate in line with organizational and client goals and values, as well as departmental objectives.

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.
• Coordinate 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.
• Assist with 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.
• Coordinate 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 FOR ALL THE FOLLOWING)

• 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,