Technical Director - Mechanical

About Beca

Beca is one of Asia Pacific’s largest independent advisory, design and engineering consultancies. After a century of operation, we have grown from a family-owned business to one of the most progressive, client-centric professional services consultancies in our region. We have more than 4,000 employees in 21 offices around the world and have delivered projects in more than 70 countries.

‘Creative people together transforming our world’ is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations and our purpose - to make every day better. We create value through understanding and delivering successful solutions, exceptional service and our enduring relationships and use our skills and systems to empower innovation; helping our clients shape communities, optimise their assets and streamline their operations.

Our employee-ownership model remains key to our future. It underpins our commitment to building and sustaining long-term relationships with our clients, it helps drive our positive, purpose-driven and growth-oriented culture, it sets us apart from our competitors, and it gives meaning to our social contract.

While our experience has been 100 years in the making, it is the fresh talent we're nurturing, the innovative thinking we're developing and the connections that we're forging that get us most excited for the future.

The Opportunity                                                                                                                

As an experienced professional, you’ll be shaping technical direction and assuring delivery quality across complex, high-profile building services projects including client relationship management, mentoring and coaching others.

As a Technical Director in our business, you’ll be recognised for the client and project leadership skills you bring to the team and known as a values-driven person who enjoys sharing the successes of your colleagues and delivering excellence for your clients. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with clients on a range of projects that will further develop you as an industry leader. Working amongst a group of highly motivated professionals, you will step into an open and supportive culture that values the skills that you can contribute to the group.

We are currently recruiting for Technical Director – Mechanical to join our Building Services team with broad experience in healthcare, commercial and mixed-development projects. This position will be based in our Singapore Office and reporting to General Manager, Built Form – Singapore.

Technical Director - Mechanical

About You

You’ll be a qualified Professional Engineer (P. Eng - Mechanical) with Professional Engineer Board, Singapore with your mechanical engineering experience coming from a consulting environment.  With broad experience in healthcare, commercial and mixed-development projects, you will have a strong technical knowledge of mechanical practices and principles.  Working amongst a group of highly motivated professionals, you will step into an open and supportive culture that values the skills that you can contribute to the group. You are a value-driven person who enjoys sharing the successes of your colleagues and delivering excellence for your clients.

Along with proven and adapt stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and align diverse interests, you will be an experienced consultant and problem solver with highly developed analytical and problem-solving abilities to identify risks and deliver innovative solutions.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will be responsible to:

• Deliver operational excellence by managing large, complex projects or multiple concurrent engagements
• Provide technical leadership and design authority across mechanical building services projects, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, codes, and best practices
• Lead the resolution of complex technical, design, and constructability challenges across the project lifecycle
• Lead project delivery across the full range of the construction project lifecycle stages, working strategically with clients
• To devise and deliver practical and economical solutions to problems through applications of technical principles in order to gain respect from clients as a highly skilled consultant
• Understand the client’s business and strategic issues in order to ensure successful outcomes
• Understand risk on all jobs through implementation of sound audit, business and financial management and understand impact of work practices on the financial outcome of projects
• Demonstrate effective communication, presentation, networking and consulting skills

Key Requirements

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Minimum 15–18 years of relevant experience within the built environment, with a strong consulting background
• Registered Professional Engineer (Mechanical) with the Professional Engineers Board, Singapore

Proven capability in:

• Technical leadership, design governance, and project delivery
• Managing multidisciplinary teams and complex stakeholder environments
• Client engagement, relationship management and commercial decision-making

• Extensive experience delivering large-scale projects across sectors
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated leadership presence and ability to influence at senior levels
• A collaborative, client-focused approach with strong professional integrity

What we offer

A career with Beca will provide you with:

• Flexibility & Wellbeing: We recognise that achieving a work-life balance is unique to everyone. Enjoy flexible working options to manage your personal and family priorities, along with dedicated leave for wellbeing and community engagement.
• Belonging & Ownership: Join a diverse and inclusive team where collaboration and creativity thrive. Bring your whole self to work and take advantage of unique shareholder opportunities to share in our collective success.
• Career Growth & Development: Grow your leadership profile and develop the next generation of engineers.

Ready to make a move?

We offer a comprehensive career growth and development programme along with a vibrant and supportive team environment. If you enjoy working for an organization that values partnership, tenacity, enjoyment and cares for its people and clients, then look no further than Beca.

If this sounds like the opportunity you have been waiting for, apply now with your CV and cover letter online today.

Please include the following information in your resume:

• Education background
• Work experiences
• Reason(s) for leaving (if any)
• Current and Expected salary
• Date of availability / Notice Period

The Beca Group of Companies is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all applications are kept strictly confidential.