Senior Operations Manager

Murphy Geospatial; Kildare; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary package

Access to cutting-edge geospatial tech

Flexible working options

Wellbeing support

Global connection with Woolpert

Owner progression pathway

Performance bonus scheme

Wellbeing reimbursement

Job summary

Murphy Geospatial – A Woolpert Company in Ireland seeks a Senior Operations Manager to lead and coordinate operational delivery across the country. This role translates strategy and the sales pipeline into safe, profitable and technically robust geospatial services from planning through delivery and review.

You will oversee capacity, mobilisation, data processing, QA, client handover and post-project review across five disciplines, while fostering growth and high performance.

Qualifications

• Significant operational leadership experience in project-based environments.
• Strong commercial and financial awareness, including budgets and margins.
• Solid understanding of health and safety, quality management, compliance and risk.
• Ability to balance strategic priorities with day-to-day delivery.
• Experience improving processes and ways of working across teams.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Collaborative leadership with accountability and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Translate company strategy, budgets and sales pipeline into operational plans.
• Lead operational delivery, ensuring scoping, resourcing, mobilisation and safe delivery.
• Maintain project controls: programme, costs, scope, risks and recovery.
• Own operational financial performance: revenue, multiplier, utilisation and overheads.
• Provide leadership on health, safety and field risk.
• Coach discipline leads and oversee workforce planning and development.
• Oversee assets, subcontractors and suppliers for value and compliance.
• Collaborate with Finance, PMO and Business Development on forecasts and bids.
• Maintain strong client relationships and address feedback and issues.
• Drive continuous improvement through technology and cross-discipline work.

Skills

Operational leadership

Financial awareness

Health and safety

Strategic planning

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Senior Operations Manager, Kildare

We seek to move the world forward through innovative thinking. Woolpert is an award‑winning, global leader in architecture, engineering, and geospatial services. We blend design excellence with cutting‑edge technology to deliver exceptional client value, and as a certified Great Place to Work®, we embrace progress and innovation to create limitless opportunities for career growth.

As part of Woolpert, Murphy Geospatial – A Woolpert Company contributes deep geospatial expertise across Europe, supporting complex infrastructure, property, manufacturing, utilities, and natural‑environment projects through world‑class data capture, verification, and governance.

Position Overview

We are currently recruiting a Senior Operations Manager to lead and coordinate our operational delivery across Ireland.

This is a key leadership position responsible for translating company strategy and our sales pipeline into safe, profitable, technically robust and consistently delivered geospatial services. The successful candidate will lead the full operational lifecycle from capacity planning and mobilisation through field delivery, data processing, quality assurance, client handover and post project review across five business disciplines in Ireland.

What You Will Do

• Translate company strategy, budgets and the sales pipeline into effective operational plans, balancing capacity, resources and priorities across our technical disciplines.

• Lead operational delivery across the business, ensuring projects are appropriately scoped, resourced, mobilised and delivered safely, on time and to the required commercial, technical and quality standards.

• Maintain effective project controls, proactively managing programme, costs, scope changes, delivery risks and project recovery where required.

• Own operational financial performance, including revenue, multiplier, utilisation, project contribution, work in progress and operational overheads.

• Provide visible leadership on health, safety and field risk, ensuring our people are competent, appropriately supported and equipped to work safely.

• Lead, coach and develop discipline leads, while overseeing workforce planning, recruitment priorities, capability development and succession.

• Oversee operational assets, equipment, subcontractors and suppliers, ensuring appropriate availability, performance, compliance and value.

• Work closely with Finance, PMO and Business Development to support forecasting, bids, commercial performance and operationally achievable client commitments.

• Maintain strong client relationships, proactively addressing feedback, delivery issues and opportunities to improve our services.

• Lead continuous improvement through technology, automation, improved systems and cross-discipline collaboration.

• Maintain strong operational governance, risk management and compliance, supporting audits and ensuring significant operational risks are identified and addressed.

What You Will Bring

• Significant operational leadership experience, ideally within a project-based, engineering, construction, technical or professional services environment.

• Strong commercial and financial awareness, including experience managing budgets, project performance, margin and operational capacity.

• A strong understanding of health and safety, quality management, compliance and operational risk.

• The ability to balance strategic priorities with day-to-day operational delivery.

• Experience improving processes, systems and ways of working across teams or service lines.

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

• Strong collaborative leadership style with a clear focus on accountability, performance and continuous improvement.

Benefits You Will Love

At Murphy Geospatial – A Woolpert Company, you’ll join a collaborative and innovative team where your expertise makes a real impact. Our benefits include:

• Competitive salary with a comprehensive benefits package aligned to your experience

• Access to cutting‑edge geospatial technology and industry‑leading tools

• Flexible working options designed to support work–life balance

• Enhanced wellbeing support, including employee assistance initiatives

• Opportunities within a growing, globally connected organisation through our partnership with Woolpert

• Principal Programme: Earn the opportunity to become an owner of the firm.

• Performance‑related bonus scheme that rewards your contribution

• Fitness and Wellbeing reimbursementprogramme
  

Equal Employment Opportunity

Woolpert is an equal‑opportunity employer committed to full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, and promote without regard to protected characteristics. For more information, see our EEO resources.

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