Asset Planning Lead Engineer

Uisce Éireann Irish Water; Leinster; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Uisce Éireann Irish Water seeks an Asset Planning Lead Engineer to drive asset policy, standards and investment prioritisation across regions. You will work with Local Authorities and partners to assess capacity for growth and new connections, developing business cases for monitoring and automation.

The role requires strong wastewater treatment experience, regulatory knowledge and excellent stakeholder collaboration to deliver value for money infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and delivering wastewater treatment infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of Irish wastewater regulation and European directives.
• Understanding and application of Asset Management principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Asset Planning team in asset standards and policy roll-out.
• Analyse asset data and prepare business cases for monitoring and automation systems.
• Assess system capacity for new connections and growth requirements.
• Collaborate with Local Authorities and third parties to prioritise investment needs.
• Provide progress updates and contribute to risk, safety and data improvement initiatives.

Skills

Wastewater treatment design

Regulatory knowledge

Asset management principles

Stakeholder collaboration

Data analysis

Project sponsorship

Communication of complex information

Energy efficiency in WWTP

Education

Third-level qualification in engineering

Accreditation in asset management

Job description

The Asset Management and Sustainability area is responsible for the development of asset policies, strategies and plans to determine the significant investment required into Ireland’s infrastructure. The area drives investment and the Sustainability and Innovation agenda for the organisation and leads on Environmental Regulation and Compliance activities, ensuring the quality of water and wastewater is continuously monitored. The Asset Management function is responsible for strategic planning, prioritisation, and development of Uisce Éireann’s Capital Works pipeline. The function plays a key role in promoting collaboration and co-ordination of activities across the three asset functions as well as providing environmental assessment and management expertise across Uisce Éireann

The Asset Planning team is accountable for the timely delivery of essential, value for money water services Infrastructure for Ireland. The scope of the team's responsibility covers 5 main areas: Housing Growing, Capex Pipeline, Risk Maintenance and Safety, Critical Assets and Leakage.

Reporting to the Regional Wastewater Treatment Technical Manager, the Asset Planning Lead Engineer plays a key role in promoting collaboration and co-ordination of asset planning activities across the three asset functions. This includes the roll-out of asset standards and policies, the use of common tools and the identification, approval and prioritisation of investment needs within the regions. The role holder works closely with Local Authorities and third parties to deliver on services for Uisce Eireann customers and supports assessments and decision making in relation to system capacity to support growth and significant new connection applications.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Act as project sponsor through all the formal workshop in a project’s life.
• Lead the development and support of processes for collecting and analysing asset data.
• Analyse and interpret data and information from various sources required for the completion of technical assessments.
• Perform technical assessments of assets to inform future investment needs,
• Assess the system capacity to facilitate new water and wastewater connections (including significant trade effluent licence applications and reviews)
• Collaborate with Environmental Strategy on wastewater discharge authorisation applications, and review applications, particularly in relation to asset capacity and performance undertakings
• Prepare business cases in relation to monitoring, control and automation systems.
• Represent the Asset Planning team at meetings as required across the region and prepare information for submissions
• Provide progress reports and updates for Asset Planning
• Identify and collaborate on key data improvement initiatives for critical information on all proposed projects. Ensure appropriate information is adequately collated and managed data is to facilitate prioritisation of projects and reporting to stakeholders.
• Develop Asset Standards, Policies and Specifications
• Provide engineering support to the Asset Planning team as required

General Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with key internal stakeholders across the UÉ business.
• Responsible for promoting and delivering health and safety commitments across UÉ and its supply chain, reinforcing positive behaviours and delivering health and safety objectives and requirements to the highest industry standards.
• Support the delivery of the Uisce Éireann Transformation Programme, driving results required within the Directorate and supporting organisation-wide objectives.
• Other duties as required.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Proven experience in the design, assessment and delivery of complex wastewater treatment infrastructure is essential
• Strong technical knowledge of wastewater treatment processes and technologies and understanding of operational performance and energy efficiency is essential
• Strong knowledge of wastewater regulation and licencing in Ireland and relevant European legislation is desirable
• Understanding and application of the principles of Asset Management is desirable
• Relevant third level qualification and or accreditation is desirable
• A minimum of 5 years’ Experience in the water, utilities or similar industries is desirable and or relevant experience
• Ability to develop and maintain effective strategic partnerships with key stakeholders internally and externally
• Proven track record of creating a collaborative environment and communicate clearly within the team
• Proven track record with dealing with complex issues, proactively and in a timely fashion along with the ability to communicate complex information to others
• Experience in managing end-to-end processes to ensure delivery meets customer expectations
• Strong analytical skills and ability to identify and analyse problems and potential improvements, and propose and implement solutions
• Demonstrate adaptability and the ability to change focus and direction in line with business strategy and requirements
• Proactively identifying new areas of improvement and using newly gained knowledge and skill on the job
• Skilled in continuously reviewing safety practices and suggest ways for improvement

The closing date for receipt of applications for this vacancy is 05/11/2026.

Please note that applications submitted after this closing date will not be accepted.