Supply Chain Manager | Limerick

Kirby Group Engineering; Limerick; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Job summary

Kirby Group Engineering is seeking a Supply Chain Manager to own the governance and performance of its global supply chain across multiple projects and regions. You will lead supplier selection, risk management, and continuous improvement initiatives within a dynamic, project-led environment.

You’ll work closely with Operations, Commercial, EHS/ESG, Finance and Legal to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery, while maintaining high standards of quality and compliance.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in supply chain, procurement, or subcontractor management within construction or engineering environments.
• Understanding of risk, compliance, and performance management across suppliers.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and work cross-functionally.
• Experience managing supplier performance, frameworks, and governance processes.
• Comfort with data, reporting tools, and digital systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the full supply chain lifecycle from prequalification to reapprovals.
• Set governance standards and ensure compliance across regions.
• Collaborate across Operations, Commercial, EHS/ESG, Finance, Legal.
• Develop dashboards and monitor supplier performance across metrics.
• Identify risks early and drive mitigation actions.
• Manage RFQ and supplier selection with strict budgets and approvals.
• Conduct supplier performance reviews and escalation pathways.
• Oversee supplier reapprovals on a rolling 3-year basis.

Skills

Supply chain management

Procurement

Subcontractor management

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Data & reporting

Tools

Power BI

MSite

Nintex

Kianda

KMS

Microsoft 365

Job description

• Permanent position available with a considerable portfolio of works for the next 5+ years
• To build your career by assisting in the delivery of "leading edge" engineering projects.
• To work with a vibrant, agile and multi-functional team in delivering projects on time, safely, to budget and to the required quality standards.
• To benefit from Kirby's Career Development Programmes that will enhance your leadership capability.
• To work with the best.
• Excellent package on offer with room for negotiations

• Permanent position available with a considerable portfolio of works for the next 5+ years
• To build your career by assisting in the delivery of "leading edge" engineering projects.
• To work with a vibrant, agile and multi-functional team in delivering projects on time, safely, to budget and to the required quality standards.
• To benefit from Kirby's Career Development Programmes that will enhance your leadership capability.
• To work with the best.
• Excellent package on offer with room for negotiations

About Kirby Group Engineering

Kirby Group Engineering is an international multi-disciplinary engineering services contractor and leading provider of high-value engineering services to a number of 'blue chip' companies. Operating across Ireland, the UK, Europe and South Africa, Kirby has become the engineering service provider of choice in growth segments such as pharmaceuticals, data centres and power transmission and distribution. Our culture is innovative, collaborative and performance focused. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to grow and develop in a company committed to developing talent and rewarding performance.

Supply Chain Manager

Kirby Group Engineering

If you’ve ever looked at a supply chain and thought, "this could run a lot better" — not in theory, but in reality, across multiple countries, stakeholders, and live projects — this is your kind of role.

Kirby Group Engineering is looking for a Supply Chain Manager who doesn't just maintain standards, but owns them. Someone who is comfortable sitting at the centre of operations, governance, performance, and risk — and making it all work together.

This isn’t a back-office procurement position. It's a leadership role with real influence across how Kirby selects, manages, and improves its supply chain globally.

The Role

You’ll take full ownership of Kirby Group Engineering's supply chain lifecycle — from prequalification right through to performance reviews and reapprovals.

Reporting to the Director of Procurement, you'll act as the single point of control for supply chain governance. That means setting the standards, enforcing them, and continuously improving how things are done across every project, region, and package.

You’ll also spend a lot of time working across functions — Operations, Commercial, EHS/ESG, Finance, Legal — ensuring the supply chain performs the way the business expects it to.

What You’ll Be Doing

Own the Governance

• Lead and enforce the full supply chain management lifecycle
• Set the standard for how suppliers are selected, evaluated, and retained
• Introduce structure, consistency, and clear performance expectations across all regions

Drive Supply Chain Performance

• Build and manage portfolio-level dashboards that actually get used
• Track supplier performance across safety, quality, commercial and ESG metrics
• Identify risks early — and do something about them

Strengthen the Supply Base

• Run ongoing capacity and capability discussions with subcontractors
• Align Kirby's project pipeline with the right supply partners
• Identify gaps and proactively build new supplier options in key regions

Control RFQ & Award Processes

• Ensure RFQs go to the right suppliers, with the right standards, every time
• Maintain discipline around budgets, approvals, and governance
• Improve the accuracy between estimated and awarded values (no surprises later)

Lead Performance & Accountability

• Implement structured supplier performance reviews across all projects
• Manage escalation pathways — from improvement plans to removal where needed
• Work closely with Operations to drive better labour and productivity outcomes

Manage Risk & Reapprovals

• Oversee supplier reapprovals on a rolling 3-year basis
• Monitor financial health, compliance, and certification standards
• Provide clear insight to senior leadership on exposure and risk

What Good Looks Like

• You bring clarity to complex supply chain structures
• You make governance practical — not just documented
• you're comfortable challenging stakeholders when standards slip
• You understand both the commercial and operational realities of construction projects
• You turn data into decisions, not just dashboards

What You’ll Need

• Strong experience in supply chain, procurement, or subcontractor management within construction, engineering, or similar project-led environments
• A clear understanding of risk, compliance, and performance management across suppliers
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and work cross-functionally
• Experience managing supplier performance, frameworks, and governance processes
• Confidence working with data, reporting tools, and digital systems

You’ll also be comfortable working across systems such as KMS, Kianda, Nintex, MSite, Power BI, and Microsoft 365 — or at least picking them up quickly.

Why Kirby Group Engineering

Kirby Group Engineering is a leading engineering services company delivering complex projects across Europe. The business is known for its high standards, strong project delivery, and continued investment in people, systems, and innovation.

What That Means For You

• You’ll have real influence, not just responsibility
• You’ll be working on major projects with a visible impact
• You’ll be part of a business that wants to improve — and backs it up

The Bottom Line

This role suits someone who likes being in the middle of it all — governance, performance, risk, stakeholders — and turning moving parts into something that works properly.

It’s not about ticking boxes. It's about building a supply chain that performs.

Kirby Group Engineering is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of race, gender, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age.