Turner & Townsend
Associate Director - MEP (Commercial)
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 15 - 20 yrs
- Urgent
Job expiry date: 26/10/2025
Job overview
Date posted
11/09/2025
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 50,000 - 60,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package + relocation
Experience
15 - 20 yrs
Seniority
Director
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
26/10/2025
Job description
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources, the company delivers outcomes that improve lives. As Associate Director - MEP (Commercial), you will lead and mentor an M&E cost management team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality M&E cost management services to clients. Acting as the key day-to-day client interface, you will manage estimating and cost planning activities, produce post-contract cost reports, lead value engineering and life cycle costing exercises, and ensure team accountability. This role requires experience in consultancy, M&E works, and large infrastructure projects, particularly within the aviation sector.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Lead and mentor an M&E cost management team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality M&E cost management services to clients.
- Act as the key, day-to-day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met through delivery of a value-added cost management service.
- Manage estimating and cost planning activities, including ownership of and presenting the final cost plan.
- Ensure the production of monthly post-contract cost reports and present them to the client.
- Lead value engineering and life cycle costing exercises.
- Motivate team members, drive positive client outcomes, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Critically analyze, challenge, and brainstorm project requirements and deliverables to find creative solutions and alternatives on behalf of clients.
- Lead a cost management team, ensuring delivery on all accountabilities.
- Identify and act upon opportunities to improve cost management procedures, templates, and products to enhance client service.
Experience & skills
- Degree qualifications in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Engineering, or similar discipline.
- More than 15 years’ work experience.
- Experience from consultancy background, well-versed with mechanical and electrical (M&E) work.
- Experience working on infrastructure projects, particularly in the aviation sector.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Experience in client management with strong business development and advisory skills in value management, value engineering, and life cycle costing.
