Senior Engineer (Dublin)

O'Neill & Brennan; Dublin; On-site; EUR 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

O’Neill and Brennan is seeking a Senior Planner to lead planning and project controls for Dublin projects, setting standards across pre-construction and construction phases.

The role requires experience in dimensional control, survey management, ITPs, NCRs and risk assessments, with a focus on maintaining tolerances and ensuring timely NCR closures.

Qualifications

• Experience in planning & project controls for construction projects.
• Strong understanding of survey equipment management and dimensional control.
• Familiarity with ITPs, NCRs, and risk assessments.

Responsibilities

• Leads planning and project controls across the business in pre-construction and construction phases.
• Oversees site and graduate engineers in survey equipment management.
• Ensures as-built surveys are performed and tolerances are understood across interfaces.
• Maintains daily diary.
• Reviews and creates ITPs for key packages (concrete, drainage, steelwork, brickwork).
• Ensures awareness of project specifications and tolerances for structural elements.
• Manages NCRs and closes out defects and remedial works in a timely manner.
• Issues permits to break ground.
• Reviews/makes method statements and risk assessments.
• Identifies missing information and handles RFIs.

Skills

Survey management

Quality control

RFI process

Method statements & risk assessments

Non-conformance management

Education

B.Eng Civil Engineering or relevant degree

Tools

Planning & programming software

Job description

Senior Planner – Dublin

DOE: €75K – €90K

Overview:

Our client, an established main contractor delivering projects across Ireland, is seeking a Senior Planner to join their Dublin team. The Senior Planner leads the planning and project controls function across the business, setting standards and ensuring consistency in pre-construction and construction phases.

Key Responsibilities:

• Competent and demonstrates advanced awareness in the best forms of dimensional control and is comfortable in rotating global grids into local grid format.
• Ensures that site and graduate engineers take responsibility for the management of survey equipment.
• Ensures that the engineering team completes as-built surveys for key elements. Understands key tolerances and can analyse details across several interfaces to highlight potential problems.
• Completes an individual daily diary.
• Competent in the principles of quality control for most packages. Can review and create Inspection & Test Plans. Can readily display advanced knowledge of key packages such as concrete, drainage, steelwork and brickwork.
• Has a good awareness of the project specifications, in particular tolerances for vertical and horizontal structural elements.
• Controls the components of the SISK Non-Conformance procedure. Is comfortable in creating and closing out Non-Conformances. Understands the cost of defects and remedial works. Works actively to close out NCR’s in a timely manner.
• Is competent in the issuing of “Permits to break ground”.
• Can review and create method statements and risk assessments.
• Identifies where information is missing and has an excellent working knowledge of the project RFIprocess.

Qualifications:

• B. Eng Civil Engineering or relevant third level qualification
• Temporary Works Coordinator training Lifting Operations basic awareness course A61 CPCS
• Lifting Operations Appointed Persons course
• Scaffold awareness/inspection
• Planning & programming software

O’Neill and Brennan values diversity and promotes equality, All individuals will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation