Senior Executive Engineer - Dublin City Council

publicjobs; Dublin; Sur place; EUR 70 000 - 95 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Dublin City Council in Dublin is seeking a Senior Executive Engineer to manage staff and the work programme across directorates, delivering efficient services and value for money.

You will lead teams, liaise with external agencies, support elected Members, and oversee budgets, training, health and safety, and policy implementation in line with the Corporate Plan.

Responsabilités

• Managing and supervising employees up to the position/grade of Executive Engineer or analogous grades and to ensure the training and development of such employees.
• Providing leadership and building effective teams, developing motivation and commitment, and maintaining sound employee relations and morale in accordance with good employment practice and relevant legislation.
• The implementation of programmes and projects across all service areas.
• The supervision and contract administration of construction / operations / maintenance works.
• Working effectively with colleagues to deliver services, often as part of a multi disciplinary team, collaborating and engaging with other teams within the organisation to deliver on the corporate objectives.
• Collaborating and engaging to deliver for our public, innovate for the future of local government and develop the people within the organisation.
• Working to targets, objectives, reporting and key performance indicators and to assist with the development of corporate plans, strategies and annual service plans.
• Having a good awareness of the political environment and an ability to work effectively with elected public representatives in a manner which facilitates the implementation of policy across a wide range of areas.
• Participating in the duties as part of the organisational response to Climate Action, to promote and ensure capacity building, empowering change and delivering action.
• Managing an engineering/administrative workforce and associated industrial relations issues including performance management in accordance with good employment practice and relevant legislation.
• Preparing budgets and ensuring that works are implemented within allocated budgets.
• Ensuring that staff are trained and operate within the relevant skill sets.
• Promoting safe work practices in the local authority generally and to ensure that all works in the areas for which you have responsibility are carried out in line with health safety and welfare legislation and regulation and to maintain and proactively develop a culture of Health & Safety in the workplace.
• Ensuring works are implemented in compliance with all relevant legislation and regulations concerning procurement, planning, etc.
• Ensuring an efficient and effective response to all stakeholders.
• The proactive implementation of council policy and its corporate plan.
• Ensuring compliance with corporate policies (Health and Safety, HR, Data Protection, Child Safeguarding etc.)
• Ensuring good governance, whilst acting in the public interest at all times.
• Upholding the corporate values of Local Government and the Council.
• Deputising for the Senior Engineer as required.
• Carrying out such other duties as may be assigned from time to time.
• Supporting the work of the strategic policy committee.
• Developing and maintaining relationships with government departments and external agencies in accordance with policy and ensuring the agreements to co-ordinate work programmes are implemented.
• Achieving and maintaining similar co-operation with local development agencies in accordance with evolving policy on the integration of local government and local and community development.
• Collaborating and engaging through cross-disciplinary working to deliver for our public, innovate for the future of local government and develop the people within the organisation.
• Managing a portfolio of projects including capital projects and prioritising and tracking progress.
• Problem solving in an environment of complex information and multiple stakeholders remaining aware of what information is critical, working to a solution in a logical fashion and understanding the context and impact of decisions made.
• Ensuring good governance whilst acting in the public interest at all times.
• Upholding the corporate values Local Government and the Council.

Description du poste

Closing Date: 3pm, Thursday, 5th November 2026

About the Employer

Dublin City Council takes the lead role in shaping the strategic vision of Dublin as a dynamic and sustainable city and seeks to continually enhance the city’s attractiveness as a place in which to invest, to work, to live and to visit.

With an annual expenditure of almost €1.8 billion (revenue and capital) and a workforce of almost 5,990 (FTEs), the City Council provides a diverse, multi-layered and evolving range of services and infrastructure to both citizens and visitors to Dublin that sustain the life of the city. These services include the provision of housing, planning, development, economic, environmental, roads and traffic, fire and emergency, leisure, cultural and community services. Many of these services, including traffic, drainage and fire and emergency services are provided on a regional basis for the Greater Dublin Area.

The continuing development and renewal of the city’s infrastructure, urban fabric and facilities, in conjunction with other public authorities, is a key feature of the Council’s role and an essential support to the national economy. The Council has a critical role in supporting the economic growth and development of the City and its cultural and recreational life and makes a major investment in social inclusion and community development through a wide range of housing, community and area-based services. The Council is increasingly exploring new and innovative ways to tackle City challenges, particularly as they relate to climate and sustainability, and to deliver services while meeting citizens’ changing expectations, achieving efficiencies, and continuing to meet the demand for increased accountability.

This is a great opportunity to join Dublin City Council at a time of transformation and innovation.

About the Role:

The Senior Executive Engineer will be responsible for the efficient management of staff and the work programme of the directorates/department and function to which they are assigned. Managers at this level work within defined parameters relevant to the position, in accordance with Dublin City Council’s vision and objectives as set out in its Corporate Plan and the role is interchangeable across directorates. Delivery of efficient services and value for money is crucial.

The Senior Executive Engineer, typically reporting to a Senior Engineer, will be required to lead a team or teams and to provide technical and managerial support across all service areas and to liaise with external agencies and support the democratic process.

The Senior Executive Engineer will be required to work closely with Management and Elected Members to deliver the full range of services, implement local policy decisions and 4 deliver on strategic corporate objectives and in accordance with the general policy direction of the elected council at both full Council and Electoral Area level. They may also be required to deputise for the Senior Engineer.

The Senior Executive Engineer duties include but are not limited to the following:

• Managing and supervising employees up to the position/grade of Executive Engineer or analogous grades and to ensure the training and development of such employees.
• Providing leadership and building effective teams, developing motivation and commitment, and maintaining sound employee relations and morale in accordance with good employment practice and relevant legislation.
• The implementation of programmes and projects across all service areas.
• The supervision and contract administration of construction / operations / maintenance works.
• Working effectively with colleagues to deliver services, often as part of a multi disciplinary team, collaborating and engaging with other teams within the organisation to deliver on the corporate objectives.
• Collaborating and engaging to deliver for our public, innovate for the future of local government and develop the people within the organisation.
• Working to targets, objectives, reporting and key performance indicators and to assist with the development of corporate plans, strategies and annual service plans.
• Having a good awareness of the political environment and an ability to work effectively with elected public representatives in a manner which facilitates the implementation of policy across a wide range of areas.
• Participating in the duties as part of the organisational response to Climate Action, to promote and ensure capacity building, empowering change and delivering action.
• Managing an engineering/administrative workforce and associated industrial relations issues including performance management in accordance with good employment practice and relevant legislation.
• Preparing budgets and ensuring that works are implemented within allocated budgets.
• Ensuring that staff are trained and operate within the relevant skill sets.
• Promoting safe work practices in the local authority generally and to ensure that all works in the areas for which you have responsibility are carried out in line with health safety and welfare legislation and regulation and to maintain and proactively develop a culture of Health & Safety in the workplace.
• Ensuring works are implemented in compliance with all relevant legislation and regulations concerning procurement, planning, etc.
• Ensuring an efficient and effective response to all stakeholders.
• The proactive implementation of council policy and its corporate plan.
• Ensuring compliance with corporate policies (Health and Safety, HR, Data Protection, Child Safeguarding etc.)
• Ensuring good governance, whilst acting in the public interest at all times.
• Upholding the corporate values of Local Government and the Council.
• Deputising for the Senior Engineer as required.
• Carrying out such other duties as may be assigned from time to time.
• Supporting the work of the strategic policy committee.
• Developing and maintaining relationships with government departments and external agencies in accordance with policy and ensuring the agreements to co-ordinate work programmes are implemented.
• Achieving and maintaining similar co-operation with local development agencies in accordance with evolving policy on the integration of local government and local and community development.
• Collaborating and engaging through cross-disciplinary working to deliver for our public, innovate for the future of local government and develop the people within the organisation.
• Managing a portfolio of projects including capital projects and prioritising and tracking progress.
• Problem solving in an environment of complex information and multiple stakeholders remaining aware of what information is critical, working to a solution in a logical fashion and understanding the context and impact of decisions made.
• Ensuring good governance whilst acting in the public interest at all times.
• Upholding the corporate values Local Government and the Council.

Full details of the role, including specific eligibility requirements, is available on www.publicjobs.ie.

The closing date for receipt of completed applications is 3pm, Thursday, 5th November 2026.