Head Of Engineering - Dublin Waste To Energy

Ad Warrior Ltd; Dublin; On-site; GBP 101,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

Ad Warrior Ltd. in Dublin seeks a Head of Engineering to act as the technical authority for a large Dublin Waste to Energy asset and to lead the relationship with external technical advisors. The role reports to the Project Director and will ensure the plant's performance and lifecycle across the concession term.

The position is based in Dublin with daily on-site presence, with potential move to a 4-day-a-week schedule in the future. Excellent salary plus benefits is offered.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience in engineering for large industrial assets
• Experience in managing external technical advisors
• Strong understanding of health, safety, environment and quality controls

Responsibilities

• Own the technical authority for the asset and ensure compliance with the operating contract
• Lead operator performance management, contract governance and performance deductions
• Direct specialist studies and manage budgets for external advisors
• Oversee outages, capital projects, lifecycle planning and equipment reliability
• Champions QHSE plans, audits and continuous improvement

Job description

Head of Engineering - Dublin Waste to Energy

Location: Ireland

Salary: Excellent Salary Plus Benefits Package

Vacancy Type: Permeant

The business is a waste to energy and power generation asset in Ireland owned by private institutional investors. It treats residual waste under a long-term public private partnership with a public authority, with several decades remaining on the concession, and exports baseload electricity to the grid.

Operations and maintenance are delivered by a third-party contractor under a long-term operating contract, which has recently been transferred to a new counterparty.

The business is moving to standalone operations under a new ownership structure and is building its own capability with a small senior team.

Role Overview

The Head of Engineering will be a senior engineering appointment in the business and its technical authority for the asset.

The role holds the operator to the technical obligations of the operating contract, protects the condition and remaining life of the plant across the concession term, and gives the board and shareholders a technical view independent of the party being reported on. It owns the relationship with external technical advisors and directs specialist support on major projects and studies, including the Dublin District Heating System.

Health, safety, environmental and quality matters sit with the role on an assurance and audit basis, including robustly challenging the operator's QHSE plans, performance and controls and holding the operator accountable for addressing deficiencies. Statutory duties for plant operation remain with the operator

The role is based in Dublin with daily on-site presence and reports into the Project Director. This could move to a 4-day-a-week on-site presence in time.

Key Responsibilities

Operator performance and contract management:

• Validate availability, output and operating data
• Chair the weekly technical performance meeting with the operator and maintain the action log
• Assess claims for additional cost, time or relief and advise the Project Director
• Determine operator performance against contract guarantees and any subsequent performance deductions

Plant performance and reliability:

• Investigate trips and unplanned outages, test root causes and verify corrective actions
• Investigate repeat failures, critical spares, boiler fouling, chemical use, defects and warranties
• Monitor waste quality, CV against design limits and quantify the impact of same on plant performance.

Technical advisor and specialist support:

• Own the 3rd party technical advisor relationship; determine what is delivered in house vs externally
• Scope projects and studies, defining deliverables, acceptance criteria, fees and timing
• Challenge advisor outputs and secure reliance letters where required
• Direct specialist thermal, corrosion, electrical, civil and structural studies as required
• Act as owner's engineer from design and tender review through inspection, testing and commissioning
• Manage advisor budgets and invoices; coordinate technical inputs for alternative providers including lenders and insurers

Outages, capital and lifecycle:

• Challenge outage scope, duration and cost; lead readiness, inspections and return to service
• Be the owners lead in capital projects and set the technical assumptions for budgets and the financial model

Health, safety, environment and quality:

• Review and challenge the operator's health and safety