Senior Executive Quantity Surveyor

Local Gov; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Fingal County Council is seeking a Senior Executive Quantity Surveyor in the Architect’s Department to deliver high-level quantity surveying services across council projects, including social and affordable housing initiatives.

The role reports to the Senior Quantity Surveyor and requires leadership in procurement, cost control and building procurement processes, with a focus on delivering value for public infrastructure.

Job description

Professional and Technical, Senior Management

Information about the Organisation:

Fingal is a highly attractive place to live, work, visit and do business. It comprises a geographical area of 450 sq.km stretching from Balbriggan in the north, to Blanchardstown in the west and to Howth in the east. The area is defined by the diversity of its landscape and settlement patterns with rural, urban and suburban locations all rolled into one county. There is 88kms of coastline, three large, protected estuaries and salt marsh habitats and 13 major beaches.

Fingal County Council is one of the county’s major local employers and currently employs approximately 1,600 staff. The Council is mandated to deliver a diverse range of functions and services which can be broadly described under the headings of the provision of physical and social infrastructure, housing, economic and tourism development, community development, recreation and amenity services and the management of the planning and environmental regulatory framework. The role of the County Council as provided for in law is to represent, lead and serve the communities of Fingal.

An opportunity now exists in Fingal County Council for the position of Senior Executive Quantity Surveyor.

Job Summary/Description:

Fingal County Council is seeking to fill a post of Senior Executive Quantity Surveyor. This post is for a full-time position in the Architect’s Department, which is responsible for ensuring provision of a high level of Architectural Services consisting of architectural design, conservation, urban design and building procurement and quantity surveying services to all departments of Fingal County Council.

The Department has a varied pattern of work with a renewed emphasis on the provision of new social and affordable housing in line with government policy. In addition, it has a primary role in devising and implementing programmes to best use Fingal County Councils existing housing stock. The department also works on public and community buildings.

The Architects Department functions as an integrated service to all departments in the Council and the person appointed will report to the Senior Quantity Surveyor.

A full list of essential requirements is available in the Information Booklet.

We are committed to a policy of equal opportunity and encourage applications under all nine grounds of the Employment Equality Act.

Closing Date: 3pm Thursday 8 th October 2026

Further information is available in the Candidate Information Booklet available on the www.publicjobs.ie website.