Director, Engineering (APAC)

About Four Seasons:

Four Seasons is powered by our people. We are a collective of individuals who crave to become better, to push ourselves to new heights and to treat each other as we wish to be treated in return. Our team members around the world create amazing experiences for our guests, residents, and partners through a commitment to luxury with genuine heart. We know that the best way to enable our people to deliver these exceptional guest experiences is through a world-class employee experience and company culture.         
At Four Seasons, we believe in recognizing a familiar face, welcoming a new one and treating everyone we meet the way we would want to be treated ourselves. Whether you work with us, stay with us, live with us or discover with us, we believe our purpose is to create impressions that will stay with you for a lifetime. It comes from our belief that life is richer when we truly connect to the people and the world around us.

About the location:

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts is a global, luxury hotel management company. We manage over 120 hotels and resorts and 50 private residences in 47 countries around the world and growing. Central to Four Seasons employee experience and social impact programming is the company’s commitment to supporting cancer research, and the advancement of diversity, inclusion, equality and belonging at Four Seasons corporate offices and properties worldwide. At Four Seasons, we are powered by people and our culture enables everything we do.

The Director of Engineering is responsible for the project support of all engineering related designs, and construction for new buildings and Major CAPEX project related activities for Four Seasons (FS) Hotel and Resort projects in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. They formulate, implement, track and maintain an innovative engineering strategy in line with the company’s vision and values using all relevant resources and respecting sustainable design criteria to achieve the company’s short-, mid- and long-term objectives.  

Job Description:

Project Coordination:

• Provide design reviews of MEP, Security, and Fire Life + Safety System designs and critical equipment, at key milestones, to ensure alignment with the FS MEP Standards throughout the Design Stages of all new developments.
• Collaborate with key internal and external stakeholders to deliver an exceptional Four Seasons MEP product with the most efficient equipment which is reliable, maintainable (with available support and services), and suitable for the regional climate.
• Assist FS Project Leads to monitor reporting of project progress.
• Report and track non-compliance conditions and deviations for key stakeholders' consideration and acceptance.
• Identify significant variances, and continually unresolved problematic areas of MEP design through the Project Lead and escalate with VP Engineering.
• Represent the FS MEP Engineering Standards in all project work, including provision of appropriate value judgement in value engineering efforts.
• Participate in site review to assess construction progress and quality.
• Review shop drawings and material samples.
• Assist Pre-Opening Director of Engineering to establish:
• Appropriate testing and commissioning program and tracker system (with Owner’s team).
• Engineering Pre-Opening Guidelines [EPOG].
• Participate in an effective feedback process with Operations to receive post-mortem “lessons learned” for the purpose of identifying opportunities for improvements.
• Review product quality to ensure the MEP assets fulfils the product life cycle/useful life.
• Review latent defects with property Directors of Engineering at regular intervals and update database.

Initiatives and Special Projects

• Know, maintain, and update the FS MEP Engineering Standards, guidelines, and policies with input from existing FS Operations, to represent best current industry practice.
• Review, prequalify, and recommend MEP-related Consultants for Developments and CAPEX related works.
• Support internal Design Services and larger cross-functional company initiatives including but not limited to Sustainability, Environmental, Social and Governance, GRMS, etc.
• Meet with Vendors/Suppliers to review MEP-related products/services.
• Work directly with VP, Engineering on special projects as required.

Education:

• Master's degree in engineering, or a related field.
• Licensed/Registered Professional status (i.e., P. Eng., etc).
• Employed by an international or recognized MEP consultancy office.
• LEED certification beneficial.

Work Experience:

• Minimum 10 years' experience in Luxury Hotel, Resort, and Residential MEP design and planning.
• Previous experience working in Asia Pacific required.

Travel:

• Travel as required based on project status, expected 40% of time.

Key Behaviourial Competencies:

• High degree of interpersonal skills to deal effectively with all business contacts.
• Culturally sensitive and adaptable to other country’s cultures.
• Productive self-starter, with excellent critical thinking ability and capable of working with limited supervision.
• Ability to multi-task and work effectively under pressure, handling several projects and challenging deadlines in an environment constantly in flux.
• Effective team player, but able to work independently with some degree of ambiguity.
• Analytical, organizational, and creative problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills to convey concepts in a clear and understandable fashion with ability to effectively communicate in English and local language (i.e., Mandarin, Cantonese, etc.,), in both oral and written forms.
• Good documentation skills.
• Disciplined adherence to schedules and consistent performance on deliverables.

Technical Skills and Knowledge:

• Strong knowledge of Hotel MEP systems design, related construction methods + materials, industry standards + practices, typical building code requirements, critical coordination aspects of MEP systems with hotel interiors, T+C practices, + key engineering operations aspects.
• Strong knowledge of construction and design process within the luxury segment of hospitality.
• Ability to coordinate and cross-reference design drawings from multiple disciplines.
• Solid understanding of hotel planning principles.
• Fluent with architectural, engineering and design industry terminology and practices.
• Possess various computer skills including CAD/other drafting software, creative software, Microsoft Office skills, Bluebeam, and Acrobat.