Director ( Mechanical )

Elysearch and Placement; Ireland; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Elysearch and Placement is seeking a Director of Engineering to report to the CEO. You will oversee a team of PMs, engineers and QSs, ensuring delivery across Life Sciences, residential, and food & beverage projects.

This role emphasizes proactive resource planning, coaching, and developing a high‑performing culture, with strong commercial discipline and governance to minimise risk and maximise value.

Qualifications

• 7+ years delivering mechanical/ process projects in building, life sciences, or related industries.
• Engineering degree with formal Project Management training preferred.
• Strong leadership and ability to mentor teams.

Responsibilities

• Role modelling our values to create a respectful, valued work environment.
• Proactive planning of resources (Craft & PMs) to execute contracts.
• Developing a competent, engaged, empowered and motivated team to deliver the work.
• Mentor and coach PMs, QSs, engineers and site team members for delivery excellence.
• Create a high‑performance culture with recognition of performance.
• Monitor contract progress and KPIs such as EVA and Labour Productivity.
• Engage with QSs to resolve commercial items and minimise work in progress.
• Ensure a consistent execution model with baselined schedules to protect against contract risk.
• Provide input to scope definition and commercial reviews for tenders.

Skills

People management

Project leadership

Commercial acumen

Communication skills

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

My client are a circa €40-50m revenue company that provide mechanical and process engineering services to clients that range from Life sciences to residential ( apartments ) to food and beverage to healthcare.

This client is over 30 years in business with offices in Ireland and the UK, they have a reputation built on delivery but also on delivering a quality service / product.

They now require a new director who will report into the CEO. They already have a technical director but he's now very focused on European projects that they are on and also the new ones in the pipeline.

Would be managing anything from 6 to 10 PM's at a time depending on size and number of projects.

They've a very strong pipeline and a solid senior management so great career prospects.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Role modelling our values so as to create a culture and work environment where people feel respected and valued.
• Proactive planning of resources (Craft & PM's) to execute your contracts. Working closely with each PM to enable resources to be assigned in a timely manner.
• Developing a competent, engaged, empowered and motivated team to deliver the work.
• Mentor and coach PM's, QS's, engineers and others in the site team to ensure excellence in our deliver.
• Create a high-performance culture with our people where performance is recognised and valued.
• Monitor performance of contract appropriate to the scale of the project, including internal reporting on contract progress, KPIs such as EVA, Labour Productivity as required by the business.
• Engage with QSs to resolve all commercial items and minimise work in progress.
• Ensure a consistent execution model where capital projects are adequately planned, including baseline schedules which protect the company from contract risk.
• Provide input to scope definition, commercial reviews, of tenders for which you are involved.

Person Specification

Skills and Education

• A qualification in Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, and at least 7 years relevant experience in delivering mechanical / Process engineering projects in industries such as general building, Life Sciences, Semiconductor, Food and Beverage.
• Ideally has formal Project Management training and experience in delivering large scale complex capital projects.
• Performance driven with strong people and technical leadership skills.

Experience

Essential

• Strong people management, demonstratable experience in managing teams/people.
• Commercial knowledge, pricing, cost control and reporting responsibility for contracts.
• Experience in the full life cycle of projects from Pre-Qualification, tendering, presentation, planning and execution of projects through to closure and handover.
• Commercial experience in construction.

Preferable

• Business Development and or tendering experience.
• Engineering and business systems development and implementation.

This is a great opportunity to be an integral part of the continued success of a decent business based on the right values.