MEP Lead
The Opportunity
NED, in partnership with Levinstein, is recruiting a senior engineering leader for a large data center campus in Netanya, now in final MEP activation stages. The position carries full technical ownership of the site's critical infrastructure from activation into steady-state operation.
The MEP Lead holds final engineering authority on site — accountable for reliability, engineering governance, maintenance quality, safety and change control, and for the performance of technicians, consultants and specialist contractors. The role sets the site's operating standards, builds the operations team and defines the work procedures the campus will run on.
Location
On site daily in Netanya.
Hours
On-site 09:00–17:30. Accountable for 24×7 availability and the site service levels, as the senior escalation authority at all hours.
Key Responsibilities
24×7 engineering operations — mission-critical availability
- Hold accountability for continuous availability of electrical, mechanical, HVAC, plumbing and BMS systems.
- Command the technical response to alarms and faults across normal, degraded and emergency modes.
Safety authority, permits and contractor quality supervision
- Act as the site safety authority for MEP works: permits, isolation, LOTO, arc-flash and contractor controls.
- Hold stop-work authority; lead incident investigations and corrective-action closure.
Maintenance ownership and asset reliability
- Own the site maintenance strategy — preventive, predictive and corrective — and approve its execution.
- Set spares policy and rule on asset condition, obsolescence and replacement priorities.
Engineering governance, documentation and reporting
- Govern asset records, single-line diagrams, operating procedures and configuration control.
- Report availability, risk and root cause analyses to management.
Candidate Requirements
Category
Requirement
Education
Engineering degree in electrical, mechanical or building services, or an equivalent senior technical qualification.
Authorization
Senior electrician authorization for the duties involved, at a level appropriate to a critical facility.
Experience
7+ years in electrical and mechanical infrastructure, of which at least 3 in a technical lead or engineering management role in a mission-critical facility.
Systems
LV/MV distribution, UPS, generators, switchgear, chilled water and precision cooling, controls and BMS.
Operations
Proven ownership of planned maintenance, fault response and contractor governance. MOP/SOP/EOP, CMMS and capacity management an advantage.
Language
Hebrew and professional working English, including technical reporting to management level.
Availability
Ownership of critical incidents and high-risk works outside normal hours; senior escalation point on the on-call roster.
Competencies
Engineering judgment — authoritative decisions under live-load pressure.
Technical leadership — sets site standards and rejects poor-quality work.
Ownership — carries actions through to verified closure.
Operational discipline — procedure-led, risk-controlled, fully traceable.
Root cause rigor — separates symptoms from underlying failure modes.
Continuous improvement — uses data to raise reliability and energy performance.
