Do you want to lead one of COWI’s largest engineering teams and shape the future of MEP delivery across Buildings & Industry? Can you combine deep technical judgement with the people leadership needed to grow, engage and inspire a diverse team? And are you ready to act as a leader on complex, international projects while building the culture, capability and pipeline for tomorrow? Then, this could be the next step in your career.

Set the course for Buildings and Industry in EDC

In this position, you will head our MEP engineering group within Buildings & Industry at the COWI Engineering Design Centre (EDC) in Chennai. You will be responsible for the technical quality of what we deliver, the health and growth of the team, and the strategic partnership with our Business Line colleagues globally and across the wider COWI network. You will oversee a team of around 100 to 150 Engineers and BIM professionals, with 5 to 12 direct reports, across India and Lithuania and will report to the Head of Executing Unit, Buildings and Industry EDC (Lithuania and India)

The role is broad and strategic,



and your day-to-day will typically include tasks such as:
- Leading and role-modelling COWI’s leadership behaviours and values across the MEP engineering group.
- Taking overall technical responsibility for the quality of MEP project deliverables – solving technical challenges on projects either through coordination or by participating directly as a technical specialist.
- Acting as a close collaboration partner within the relevant Business Line executing unit leadership team, working closely with Heads of Engineering and Heads of Discipline across locations.
- Providing leadership and direction to Head of Disciplines across India and Lithuania
- Ensuring optimal performance of the resource account as the single point-of-entry for all staffing requests from Heads of Projects, Project Managers, Head of Engineering, Head of Discipline and Resource Managers
- Driving high billability in

📌 Head of Engineering, Buildings and Industry-MEP (Chennai)
🏢 COWI
📍 Chennai