About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Building Structures and MEP Manager to join our team in Austin, Texas, supporting a major, high-profile transit program that will transform mobility and connectivity across the city. Based within the client’s office, you will work in a fully integrated delivery environment on a complex rail corridor project. In this role, you will lead the design and delivery of station packages across a program of predominantly at-grade stations, alongside a landmark elevated station. You will ensure the effective integration of MEP systems design - providing technical leadership across multidisciplinary teams in a complex, safety-critical rail environment, including oversight of traction power, station infrastructure, and passenger-focused design elements.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate and manage the delivery of MEP, building systems and structural design across multiple station and ancillary facilities packages
- Oversee key design elements including: Right-of-Way (ROW) lighting study and design and power distribution, Fire & Life Safety systems and code compliance, Pedestrian modelling and station capacity planning, Structural design
- Provide technical leadership and integration across multidisciplinary teams, ensuring alignment between architecture, structures, rail systems, and utilities
- Act as a key interface within the client-embedded delivery team, supporting real-time decision-making and collaboration – conveying messages to the MEP and structural designers
- Support utility coordination, third-party interfaces, and permitting activities within complex urban right-of-way environments
- Ensure the delivery of safe, reliable, and compliant station environments, aligned with industry standards and transit design best practice
- Support safety assurance, certification, and commissioning activities for station systems and infrastructure
- Contribute to the delivery of high-quality, passenger-focused station environments, supporting accessibility, usability, and urban integration
- Support design management functions including scope, schedule, risk, quality, and value engineering
- Mentor and develop engineers, fostering a high-performing and collaborative team environment
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in Building MEP Systems engineering within transportation or infrastructure sectors
- Proven experience delivering transit stations or complex vertical infrastructure (e.g., depots, rail stations, public-use facilities)
- Strong understanding of integrated station systems, including electrical systems, safety systems, and passenger environments
- Demonstrated experience in design management and multidisciplinary coordination, particularly across MEP and Buildings Systems interfaces
- Experience working in client-facing or embedded delivery environments on large programs
- Strong knowledge of codes, standards, and safety considerations associated with rail and public infrastructure systems
Skills
- Excellent communication
- Leadership
- Stakeholder management
Location
- Austin, Texas
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- BSc / MSc in Civil Engineering or a related discipline
- Professional Engineer (PE) license in Texas, or ability to obtain reciprocity within 6 months
Benefits
- Personal and group performance bonuses
- 401k
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Paid holidays
- PTO
- Parental leave
- Company paid life insurance
About the Company
- At Mott MacDonald, we trust our brilliant people to do brilliant things in engineering, management, and development services, supporting multisector project work in over 150 countries.
- As one of the largest employee-owned companies in the world, we pride ourselves on our ability to deliver exceptional outcomes through our network of 20,000+ talented consultants.
- With sustainability and innovation at the heart of all our sectors in North America, including, Buildings, Energy, Transportation, and Water.
- We believe in empowering our people to excel, learn, and grow, offering diverse opportunities to contribute to career-defining work.
- Join us and be part of a collaborative environment where your ambitions are united with ours, and you can truly shape your story.
- If you share that vision, even if you don’t meet every requirement listed, we’d still love to hear from you.
- We value potential and diverse perspectives as much as experience.
- Let’s explore how we can support your growth and help you take the next step in your career, while contributing to an exciting new chapter for Mott MacDonald in North America.
- At Mott MacDonald, we deliver impactful, career-defining work across engineering, management, and development services worldwide.
- As a global, employee-owned consultancy, we are driven by innovation, sustainability, and excellence across our core sectors.
Equal Opportunity
- Equal opportunity is the law.
- We seek to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all.
- We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status or disability status.
