Senior Executive Quantity Surveyor - Fingal County Council

Garda; Fingal; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Fingal County Council invites applications for the position of Senior Executive Quantity Surveyor in the Architect’s Department. The role focuses on delivering high-level architectural services, including construction procurement and quantity surveying for housing and public buildings.

The post requires leadership of in-house and consultant QS teams, with responsibilities from project inception through to completion, in line with Public Works contracts and the Capital Works Management Framework.

Qualifications

• Managing, overseeing and directing projects undertaken by in-house quantity surveying staff and consultant quantity surveyors.
• Providing the full range of quantity surveying services from Project Inception to Final Completion on allocated projects in accordance with the requirements of the Public Works Forms of Contract and the Capital Works Management Framework, including preparation of tender and contract documentation.
• Setting targets, goals, timeframes and driving progress to ensure completion of projects in a timely manner.

Responsibilities

• Managing, overseeing and directing projects undertaken by in-house quantity surveying staff and consultant quantity surveyors.
• Providing the full range of quantity surveying services from Project Inception to Final Completion on allocated projects in accordance with the requirements of the Public Works Forms of Contract and the Capital Works Management Framework, including preparation of tender and contract documentation.
• Setting targets, goals, timeframes and driving progress to ensure completion of projects in a timely manner.

Job description

Senior Executive Quantity Surveyor - Fingal County Council

The closing date for this vacancy is 08/10/2026, 15:00

Job summary

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 Job Summary/Description is available in the Information Booklet.

Main Duties of the Job

Managing, overseeing and directing projects undertaken by in-house quantity surveying staff and consultant quantity surveyors.

Providing the full range of quantity surveying services from Project Inception to Final Completion on allocated projects in accordance with the requirements of the Public Works Forms of Contract and the Capital Works Management Framework, including preparation of tender and contract documentation.

Setting targets, goals, timeframes and driving progress to ensure completion of projects in a timely manner.

A full list of main duties is available in the Information Booklet.

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.

Salary Scale effective from 1st June 2026:

Hours of attendance will be fixed from time to time but will amount to not less than 35 hours gross per week.

The annual leave allowance for the position of Senior Executive Quantity Surveyor is 30 days.

Selection Process Details

A ranking and or shortlisting exercise may be carried out on the basis of information supplied in your application form. The criteria for ranking and or shortlisting are based on the requirements of the post as outlined in the eligibility criteria and skills, competencies and/or knowledge section of this job specification. Therefore it is very important that you think about your experience in light of those requirements.

Failure to include information regarding these requirements may result in you not being called forward to the next stage of the selection process.

Local authorities are committed equal opportunities employers.