Director, MEP Programs
Req Id: 431514
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Summary
Bell’s AI Fabric initiative is pioneering a secure, sovereign AI compute network across Canada. This ambitious portfolio features seven large-scale, high-density data centers, anchored by a 500 MW British Columbia supercluster and a 300 MW flagship site in Regina, Saskatchewan.
As MEP Program Director, you will own the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing program at the portfolio level—setting the M&E design standards, delivery playbooks, procurement strategies, and governance that every site inherits and executes against. Rather than delivering a single facility, you will drive consistency, repeatability, and continuous improvement across the entire national fleet, ensuring MEP scope is planned, standardized, and governed to mission-critical standards as the program scales aggressively.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the enterprise MEP program strategy across the national data centre portfolio, establishing standardized M&E design basis, specifications, and delivery playbooks.
- Define and govern MEP standards for power, cooling (including high-density/liquid cooling), UPS, generation, and controls to ensure fleet-wide consistency and repeatability.
- Set the modular/prefabrication program strategy, driving standardized modular MEP approaches that de-risk schedule and quality across all sites.
- Provide program-level oversight and technical governance to site-level MEP and module delivery leaders, ensuring alignment to standards and lessons learned.
- Own MEP program-level budgeting, forecasting, and reporting, providing roll-up visibility across multiple concurrent builds to Capital Programs and AI Fabric leadership.
- Lead MEP vendor and OEM strategy at the portfolio level, negotiating master agreements and standardizing supply chains for critical M&E equipment.
- Establish program-wide commissioning standards and quality frameworks (FAT/SAT, LOD classification, integrated testing) to ensure consistent, handover-ready outcomes.
- Drive program-level risk management, change governance, and interdependency management across sites, escalating systemic issues proactively.
- Partner cross-functionally with engineering, program controls, procurement & asset management, and site construction to integrate MEP strategy into the broader program.
- Build, mentor, and scale the MEP program leadership function as the national program grows.
Critical Qualifications
- 15+ years of MEP leadership on large-scale capital programs, with direct experience across multiple hyperscale or mission-critical data centres (100MW+ / multi-site portfolios preferred).
- Proven track record setting M&E standards, playbooks, and governance at a program or portfolio level—not just single-project delivery.
- Deep technical expertise across data centre M&E systems—power distribution, UPS, generators, switchgear, chilled water, and high-density/liquid cooling.
- Experience defining and scaling modular / off-site MEP strategies across a fleet of facilities.
- Strong command of program-level cost management, forecasting, and integrated master scheduling (e.g., Primavera P6).
- Expertise in commissioning standards and quality frameworks (FAT/SAT, LOD design classification, integrated systems testing).
- Demonstrated ability to build and mature a program/engineering function from a formative stage.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and executive presence, able to influence and challenge senior engineering, construction, and executive leaders.
- Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or related Engineering discipline; P.Eng., PMP/PgMP, or commissioning certification (e.g., ACG/CxA) strongly preferred.
- Willingness to travel nationally between build locations and fabrication facilities as the portfolio scales.
Adequate knowledge of French is required for positions in Quebec.
Additional Information:
Position Type: Management
Job Status: Regular - Full Time
Job Location: Canada : Alberta : Calgary
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Application Deadline: 07/28/2026
For work arrangements that are ‘Hybrid’, successful candidates must be based in Canada and report to a set Bell office for a minimum of 3 days a week. Recognizing the importance of work-life balance, Bell offers flexibility in work hours based on the business needs.
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