MEP Project Manager

Gaga Muller is a Project Management Consultancy with specific divisions focused on providing Project Management, Cost Management, and Digital services to owner organization within the construction industry.

With a proven track record working alongside global technology leaders and data center developers, we combine local expertise with global standards to ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget, and to the highest quality.

At Gaga Muller, we empower people and organizations to build with data.

Gaga Muller is supporting the delivery of a hyperscale data center development in British Columbia, Canada.

As the MEP Project Manager, you will act as an Owner’s Representative, providing client-side leadership and oversight of the Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) elements of the project.

You will represent the client’s interests throughout the project lifecycle, overseeing design consultants, MEP contractors, vendors, commissioning teams, and other project stakeholders. You will ensure MEP scope is aligned with client requirements and that design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover activities progress in accordance with the approved program, budget, quality requirements, and project objectives.

Working closely with the Project Director, Construction Manager, Design Team, Project Controls, Cost Management, Commissioning Team, MEP Contractors, and Client Representatives, you will provide strategic oversight, manage project risks, challenge contractor performance, coordinate complex interfaces, and support the successful delivery of critical MEP infrastructure.

This role offers the opportunity to play a key client-side leadership role on one of Canada’s largest mission critical developments, helping ensure the successful delivery of complex MEP systems within a hyperscale data center environment.

• Act as the client’s primary MEP representative, providing leadership, oversight, and governance across MEP activities.
• Provide strategic oversight of MEP design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover.
• Represent the client’s interests in meetings with design consultants, contractors, vendors, commissioning teams, and other stakeholders.
• Monitor contractor and consultant performance against contractual obligations, project requirements, program, budget, and quality expectations.
• Review and challenge MEP delivery strategies, methodologies, schedules, and proposed solutions on behalf of the client.
• Ensure MEP scope remains aligned with client operational requirements, technical standards, design intent, and project objectives.
• Identify risks, issues, and opportunities and ensure appropriate actions are developed and implemented.
• Provide clear recommendations to the Project Director and Client on key MEP decisions and delivery matters.

• Provide client-side oversight of MEP design development and technical coordination.
• Review design documentation, specifications, equipment selections, drawings, calculations, and technical submissions.
• Coordinate with the Design Manager and consultants to ensure MEP design supports procurement and construction.
• Challenge design assumptions, constructability issues, technical risks, and proposed deviations.
• Oversee MEP RFIs, technical queries, design changes, and clarifications.
• Ensure MEP interfaces are coordinated with CSA, architectural, structural, civil, and other disciplines.
• Work with BIM and Design Management teams to monitor coordination, clash detection, and resolution.
• Ensure design changes and technical decisions are appropriately documented and communicated.

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