Technical Coordinator - Pre-Opening Operations

Role Overview

The Technical Coordinator supports the Senior Pre-Opening Operations Manager in preparing new MML properties—restaurants, hotels, and mixed-use developments—for successful opening. This role bridges development, design, and operations, ensuring all owner-provided equipment, food service coordination, vendor deliverables, and operational readiness tasks are technically accurate, tracked, and executed on schedule.

The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, proactive, and thrives in a fast-paced environment where design, construction, and operations overlap.

Key Responsibilities

Project Coordination

• Support the Senior Pre-Opening Operations Manager in managing technical documentation related to back-of-house design, equipment packages, and operational layouts.
• Maintain and update pre-opening milestone trackers and critical path schedules in
• coordination with the Development and Design teams.
• Coordinate with consultants (MEP, food service, low-voltage, signage, etc.) to ensure
• owner-provided scopes are integrated accurately into construction documentation.
• Track all operational deliverables including kitchen equipment, smallwares, uniforms,
• technology systems, and specialty vendors.
• Assist with procurement documentation and logistics coordination for OSE (operating supplies & equipment).

Technical Review & Documentation

• Review design and consultant drawings for alignment with operational needs (kitchen adjacencies, food service clearances, equipment power/water requirements, etc.).
• Prepare and maintain technical logs, shop drawing reviews, and punch list items for owner-provided scopes.
• Consolidate specifications, cut sheets, and submittals into organized reference packages for operations and facilities turnover.Operational Readiness
• Assist in setting up back-of-house spaces prior to opening—inventory tagging, room organization, and coordination with facilities.
• Support site walks, pre-punch reviews, and turnover documentation alongside the Senior Pre-Opening Operations Manager.
• Communicate regularly with project managers, chefs, and facilities teams to ensure
• alignment on readiness tasks.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of experience in project coordination, architecture, food service design, or
• hospitality operations.
• Strong technical understanding of construction drawings, equipment layouts, and
• specifications.
• Proficiency in Excel, Smartsheet (or similar), and familiarity with reading plan sets (Revit,
• AutoCAD, or Bluebeam).
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Highly detail-oriented with ability to track multiple concurrent deliverables across
• projects.
• Hospitality or food service industry experience preferred.

Key Attributes

• Organized and process-minded, but comfortable with ambiguity.
• Strong collaborator who can interface between development, design, and operations.
• Eager to learn and grow within a high-performing, fast-moving hospitality development team.
• Naturally curious about how design, construction, and operations intersect to create exceptional guest experiences.

If an offer is accepted for this position, you must undergo a comprehensive background check. This process may include verification of employment history, education credentials, criminal records, and other relevant information. By applying for this position, you acknowledge and agree to the background check process as a condition of employment.

MML Hospitality is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or any other prohibited basis. We intend for all qualified applicants to be given equal opportunity and for selection decisions based on job-related factors.