MEP Systems Integration Manager

About this position

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 Title: MEP Systems Integration Manager

Position Location: Hybrid - Buffalo, NY. 75–100% travel across the U.S. unless assigned to an extended project. Must be located near a major US airport.

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.

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.

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.