Technical Director - MEP (Building Services)

At Stantec, we are looking for a MEP Technical Director to join our Buildings team in Leeds. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced building services professional to provide technical leadership, shape the strategic direction of our MEP offering and play a key role in developing our presence across the region.

Are you an established MEP Building Services leader ready to take the next step in your career and make a significant impact within a growing, multidisciplinary consultancy?

Working with colleagues across our national Buildings business, you will bring together technical excellence, commercial awareness and strong client relationships to help deliver outstanding engineering solutions across a diverse portfolio of projects.

This is a senior leadership position offering the opportunity to influence our technical capability, support business growth and develop the next generation of engineering talent.

About The Role:

As Technical Director, you will provide strategic and technical leadership across our MEP Building Services discipline, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, innovative and sustainable engineering solutions.

You will play a key role in strengthening our market position in Leeds and the wider region, developing client relationships, identifying new opportunities and supporting the continued growth of our Buildings business.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing technical leadership across mechanical, electrical and public health building services engineering, setting high standards for technical delivery, quality and innovation.
• Leading and developing a team of building services engineers, creating an environment that encourages collaboration, knowledge sharing and professional development.
• Supporting the strategic growth of the MEP business, identifying opportunities across existing and new markets and contributing to business planning.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients, design partners and industry stakeholders, acting as a trusted technical adviser.
• Leading and contributing to the development of bids, proposals and major project opportunities, supporting the successful acquisition of new work.
• Overseeing the technical delivery of projects, ensuring solutions are commercially viable, sustainable and aligned with client requirements.
• Promoting innovation, digital engineering and low-carbon design approaches to deliver efficient, future-focused building services solutions.
• Working collaboratively with colleagues across structural engineering, architecture, sustainability and other disciplines to deliver integrated project solutions.
• Providing technical guidance and support on complex engineering challenges, undertaking design reviews and promoting best practice.
• Supporting recruitment, retention and succession planning to build a strong and sustainable engineering team.

Your Impact:

You will have the opportunity to shape the future of our MEP Building Services capability in Leeds, influencing both our technical direction and commercial performance.

Through your leadership, you will help strengthen client relationships, grow our project portfolio and develop a high-performing team recognised for its technical expertise and collaborative approach.

You will also contribute to Stantec's wider Buildings strategy, working alongside senior leaders across the UK to share knowledge, develop opportunities and deliver projects that make a positive difference to the built environment.

About You:

You will be an experienced MEP Building Services professional with a strong technical background and a proven track record of leading teams, delivering complex projects and developing client relationships.

You will bring:

• Significant experience within a building services engineering consultancy, with a strong understanding of both mechanical and electrical engineering disciplines.
• A proven track record in a senior technical or leadership position, ideally at Technical Director or Associate Director level with the ambition and capability to progress.
• Strong technical expertise across building services design, with the ability to provide direction and assurance on complex engineering projects.
• Experience leading, mentoring and developing multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• A strong commercial mindset, with experience contributing to business development, winning work and managing client relationships.
• The ability to develop and maintain relationships with key clients and identify opportunities for future growth.
• A passion for sustainable building design, low-carbon solutions and innovation within the built environment.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence at all levels and bring people together around a shared vision.

• Relevant engineering degree and be Chartered (CEng) with an appropriate professional institution, such as CIBSE or IET.

Why Join us? 

Our core values unite us as a firm. Our commitment to the health and safety of our people and to being ethical underpins our values and strengthens everything we do.

• We put people first: People are at the heart of everything we do; they give our work purpose. That’s why we listen to and design for the distinct needs of our clients—and those who live and work in the communities we serve. It’s why we prioritize the safety of everyone our work touches. And it’s why we define fulfilling careers for our own people, helping them set and then surpass their individual goals
  
  
• We are driven to achieve: Named in the top 50 companies to work by Glassdoor 2025. Recognised by Corporate Knights as one of the world's top 10 most sustainable companies 2025. 

• We do what is right: Industry leading training and development as well as paid for professional subscriptions. A professional progression plan, supporting you to become chartered. 

• We are better together: A supportive and collaborative team environment and wider ERG network (see more on our ERGs here: Stantec Employee Resource Groups) 

• Growth: We're on an exciting growth journey across the UK - we want you to be part of it! 

• Great Benefits: Competitive salary, bonus schemes, enhanced pension plan, annual leave with the option to buy/sell additional days, private medical insurance, group income protection & life assurance included as standard as well as discounted gym membership and lots more. 

• Flexible working: Enjoy a healthy work-life balance with our hybrid approach to flexible working. Please note, we ask our full-time employees to come into the office 3 days per week.  

The Stantec community unites more than 34,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities. 

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities. 

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is a crucial key to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply.

At Stantec we want you to perform your best at every stage of the recruitment process and are committed to ensuring it is accessible to all. If you need any support or require adjustments to be made, then please contact [email protected] and we will talk to you about how we can support you.