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Lead MEP Engineer | Denmark

🗓️ Posted 2026-10-13 Denmark Hybrid Engineering
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market 55,000 DKK–75,000 DKK/mo

About the Company

Permanent position available with a considerable portfolio of works for the next 5+ years To build your career by assisting in the delivery of 'leading edge' engineering projects. To work with a vibrant, agile and multi-functional team in delivering projects on time, safely, to budget and to the required quality standards. To benefit from Kirby's Career Development Programmes that will enhance your leadership capability. To work with the best. Excellent package on offer with room for negotiations For more information on this role, or other Construction / Engineering opportunities across Ireland, the UK, Europe, or South Africa please review our careers page ( Vacancies - Kirby Group Careers ) or contact the Talent Acquisition Team at Kirby Group in confidence on +353 (0)1 454 0411. Kirby Group Engineering is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of race, gender, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age.

About the Role

The role of the Lead MEP Engineer is to lead and coordinate Mechanical, Electrical, and CSA-adjacent interfaces from early project engagement through to delivery, acting as a key technical, coordination and decision interface between Kirby Group Engineering (KGE), the client, FIA team, AE, PMC, SPCs, and key vendors. The Lead MEP Engineer is responsible and accountable for driving the day to day MEP interface coordination, managing interfaces, ensuring technical clarity of scope, maintaining alignment with internal KGE procedures, and providing confidence to the client through structured planning, tracking, and proactive issue resolution. This role requires strong client-facing capability, engineering judgement, and ownership of complex interfaces across OFE, CSA, and MEP scopes.

Responsibilities

  • ● Management
  • ● Support the Engineering & BIM leads through execution of defined project engineering tasks and coordination activities.
  • ● Undertake project reviews and support risk assessments from an engineering and MEP interface perspective.
  • ● Provide technical input and assistance to Pre Construction and BIM coordination
  • ● Identify CDP Elements across all disciplines and perform a risk assessment on all items identified. Agree package deliverables with specialists and take all necessary steps to derisk the scope.
  • ● Assist with identification and engagement of specialist design consultants and subcontractors where required.
  • ● Produce a weekly report detailing engineering progress, completed activities, upcoming actions, and highlighting areas of concern and potential risks, issued in a timely manner to the Project Manager PM and Engineering Manager EM .
  • ● Provide engineering support and guidance to project teams on MEP, interface, and constructability issues.
  • ● Liaise with client, FIA, PMC, AE, and suppliers on technical coordination matters and emerging engineering challenges.
  • ● Support continuous improvement of engineering procedures, checklists, and trackers through lessons learned.
  • ● Support MEP teams and track project level engineering KPIs and progress metrics. Highlighting corrective actions where performance deviates.
  • ● Manage and coordinate all assigned aspects of the works from project setup through to client handover, ensuring engineering activities are aligned with programme and contractual requirements.
  • ● Escalate to the EM and PM any matters impacting cost, programme, contractual requirements, local statutory compliance or design responsibility.
  • ● Read and understand the Project EHS Plan and ensure engineering decisions support safe construction and commissioning.
  • ● Identify and escalate design related safety and constructability risks at an early stage.
  • ● Support the temporary works coordination and compliance through Engineering input & interface coordination.
  • ● Identify and engage key vendors, OFE suppliers, and subcontractors forming the basis of the construction delivery strategy.
  • ● Support preparation and review of RFQ technical inputs for MEP systems, interfaces, and specialist packages.
  • ● Assist and pursue the evaluation of RFQ returns for technical compliance and scope alignment.
  • ● Support the development and updating of technical submittal and procurement trackers.
  • ● Liaise with vendors to obtain the technical data required for interface coordination and constructability assessments.
  • ● Review and understand applicable Quality Plans, ITPs and testing procedures/requirements relevant to the MEP scope and as per the client's quality requirements.
  • ● Ensure engineering deliverables (Technical Submittals, RFIs, drawings, benchmarks, reports, calculations) are complete, coordinated, and of a high standard.
  • ● Arrange, issue invites for, and attend Factory Acceptance Tests (FATs) and Site Attendance / Acceptance Tests (SATs) as required by the specification and ITPs.
  • ● Ensure FAT/SAT/IST outcomes, actions, and close outs are documented and tracked.
  • ● Track and support closure of engineering related snags arising from reviews, testing, and coordination activities during all handover phases.
  • ● Understand how the project programme is constructed and how engineering deliverables integrate into it.
  • ● Coordinate early input from Planning, Constructability, Logistics, Commissioning, and OSM teams.
  • ● Track engineering deliverables against programme milestones and highlight risks to schedule adherence.
  • ● Investigate feasibility of utilising KGE OSM facilities for applicable S code assemblies, including logistics and transportation considerations.
  • ● Act as a competent technical representative of KGE in client and FIA interactions.
  • ● Support technical workshops, scope clarifications, and coordination sessions that reinforce client confidence.
  • ● Escalate potential opportunities for additional scope, value engineering, or follow on work through the PM or EM.
  • ● Drive multi discipline coordination across Electrical, Mechanical, CSA, Structural, and BIM teams.
  • ● Define and manage scope splits between disciplines, packages, and SPCs to avoid gaps and/or overlaps.
  • ● Own and maintain the MEP Interface Asset Register / Interface Schedule.
  • ● Coordinate interfaces between:
  • ● OFE/FIA vendors / MEP / CSA
  • ● KGE SPC Fitout scope and other SPCs (PUF, S&C, Perun)
  • ● Chase and validate missing technical information including fixings, weights, earthing, pipework interfaces, and scope ownership.