HV Transmission Engineer — Grid Solutions & Compliance

Mace; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Mace is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to join our transmission system design authority in Ireland. You will contribute to the development of technical standards and functional specifications for HV and MV projects, coordinating with ESB networks and external partners.

Role emphasizes design verification, commissioning oversight, and stakeholder engagement across client engineers, vendors and internal teams. Hybrid working options may be discussed.

Qualifications

• Electrical engineering qualification with MV/HV transmission substation design and assurance expertise.
• Experience delivering energy infrastructure projects, including site inspections, compliance and commissioning activities.
• Strong stakeholder management, commercial awareness and ability to lead high-performing project teams.
• Committed to sustainability, continuous development and building trusted client relationships that drive successful outcomes.
• Membership of RICS, CIOB, APM, ICE or equivalent demonstrable professional or personal development.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring technical queries raised during the project are dealt with in accordance with TSO standards and policies and are closed out efficiently.
• Ensuring projects are carried out in a manner that meets requirements.
• Reviewing and comparing submitted detailed designs against functional requirements and outline designs.
• Monitoring of construction progress, and onsite inspection to ensure compliance with standards, functional requirements, and outline designs.
• Ensuring developments are commissioned to comply with the requirements by producing and issuing commissioning instructions
• Verifying transmission system requirements are met to allow commissioning tests to proceed.
• Assisting the lead engineers with the engagement with customer and stakeholder technical consultants as and when required in order to resolve issues arising.
• Coordinating with peers to meet business priorities, manage issues as they arise, provide technical guidance, and act as an escalation point to EAM manager.
• Managing interactions on own projects with client engineering vendors, customers, and internal stakeholders.
• Providing technical direction and assistance across the organisation on own projects and to team members and junior staff, and act as a team representative when required.
• Ensuring the completion of stage gate reviews on all customer projects to ensure that the requirements of functional specifications are met.
• Providing completion and dissemination of lessons learned on each project post project energisation.
• Ensuring appropriate engagement with our partners in ESB networks including meetings, reporting, relationship management, and general communication as applicable to the client engineering role.
• Facilitating and inputting project reviews, assessment, and auditing by internal and external parties as required.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Sustainability

Education

Electrical engineering MV/HV design

Job description

Mace is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to join our transmission system design authority in Ireland. You will contribute to the development of technical standards and functional specifications for HV and MV projects, coordinating with ESB networks and external partners.

Role emphasizes design verification, commissioning oversight, and stakeholder engagement across client engineers, vendors and internal teams. Hybrid working options may be discussed.