MEP Design Director - Data Center Construction

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Job Description

Turner & Townsend are seeking an experienced MEP Design Director to join our team. The MEP Design Director serves as the client’s MEP engineering subject‑matter expert and owner’s representative for data center development projects. This role leads and oversees all MEP engineering design activities from early site due diligence through construction, monitoring technical quality, regulatory compliance, constructability, and timely project delivery.

The position manages external MEP engineering consultants and partners while working closely with clients internal Development, Construction, Utilities, Power, Environmental, and Innovation & Engineering teams. The MEP Design Lead plays a critical role in managing risk, accelerating speed‑to‑market, and monitoring that site designs support scalable, resilient, and repeatable data center campus development.

Key Responsibilities

MEP Design & Technical Leadership

* Oversee MEP engineering design efforts across all