Senior MEP Design Lead - Hospitality

We are partnering with a major international hospitality and leisure group to appoint a Regional MEP Lead to support an extensive portfolio of land-based hotels, resorts and destination/day-resort developments across the Caribbean
.

Based in Miami
, this is a senior technical role sitting at the heart of the group's design and pre-construction function. The successful candidate will take the lead on MEP and Fire Life Safety (FLS) coordination across multiple concurrent hospitality projects
, ensuring engineering systems are properly defined, integrated and construction-ready before projects move into procurement and delivery.

The position would suit an experienced MEP engineering professional who has worked on large-scale hotels, resorts, cruise-related hospitality, mixed-use or similarly complex developments and is comfortable operating across multiple projects and international locations.

• Lead MEP and FLS coordination through the pre-construction and design development phases across multiple regional projects.
• Develop and review engineering strategies covering mechanical, electrical, plumbing, central plant, distribution and associated infrastructure.
• Ensure MEP systems are effectively integrated with architecture, interiors, F&B, operational requirements and overall design intent.
• Work closely with architects, designers, project/construction teams, operations, procurement and external engineering consultants.
• Identify technical risks, design conflicts and infrastructure constraints early and drive solutions before construction.
• Review system capacity, sizing, resilience, redundancy and lifecycle performance.
• Ensure engineering solutions consider guest comfort, operational efficiency, sustainability, energy performance and long-term maintainability.
• Provide technical input into project scope, budgets, constructability reviews and value engineering.
• Review engineering deliverables and ensure technical comments and design issues are resolved ahead of key project stage gates.
• Support tender and procurement readiness by ensuring engineering packages are appropriately coordinated and complete.
• Undertake periodic site visits across the Caribbean to review alignment between approved design intent and project execution.
• Provide technical support during construction where required, including engineering RFIs and coordination issues.

We are particularly interested in candidates offering:

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
• Approximately 10–15+ years' experience in MEP design, engineering or technical coordination.
• Experience delivering large, technically complex projects
  , ideally within hotels, resorts or hospitality-led developments.
• Strong multidisciplinary coordination experience across architecture, interiors and construction.
• Good understanding of Fire Life Safety systems and standards
  .
• Experience managing external engineers, consultants and specialist technical partners.
• Strong technical judgement combined with a practical understanding of cost, constructability and operations.
• Experience overseeing multiple projects concurrently.
• Professional Engineer / PE status would be advantageous but is not essential.
• Comfortable travelling approximately 50% of the time across the Caribbean
  .

This is an opportunity to join a substantial international organisation with an active development pipeline across the Caribbean and to play a key role in shaping the engineering strategy and technical delivery of a diverse portfolio of hospitality destinations.