Senior Engineer – Engineering & Asset Managament (E2025218)

We are the people behind Ireland’s electricity grid. We operate the power system with world leading levels of variable asynchronous renewable generation, ensuring that everyone has power when they need it. But that’s not all, we are now transforming the power system for future generations. 

And that’s just the beginning of our story.  We have a critical purpose. That purpose is to transform the power system to enable our society to reduce our carbon emissions and meet our climate change and net zero ambitions. 

Be part of the transformation!

The Opportunity

We are now seeking Senior Onshore Client Engineers to join the Engineering & Asset Management (E&AM) in our Cork office.

The successful candidates will perform engineering assignments over the full life cycle of projects from project inception (pre-planning) right through to commissioning completion and energisation. This will involve a mix of design activities such as feasibility studies, concept/FEED reviews, and detailed design reviews. 

The Client Engineer (CE) is responsible for undertaking project design reviews and site inspections on both contestable and non-contestable transmission projects to ensure that projects are developed in accordance with EirGrid functional specifications and that EirGrid processes, procedures and quality standards are implemented satisfactorily.  

The Client Engineer plays a pivotal role in delivering these projects to meet key departmental and company objectives. 

The Team
The Engineering & Asset Management is responsible for undertaking four key roles; asset management, technical authority, onshore engineering and offshore engineering. The team is responsible for setting the technical engineering policies and standards to be used for transmission infrastructure, monitoring compliance during design and construction and for ensuring asset integrity and ensuring uninterrupted power system functionality.

The Engineering and Asset Management is one of the areas within EirGrid which facilitates that role through the development of technical standards and functional specifications for all plant to be connected to the transmission system and the development of new and innovative technologies and methodologies.

In addition, these areas are responsible for ensuring that EirGrid’s requirements are incorporated in project design and construction whether the works are carried out by ESB Networks or by third parties.

About you
Successful candidates will have:

• Electrical Engineering qualification to degree level or equivalent qualification, typically with 4+ years of relevant post-qualification experience. 
• Excellent communication skills with an emphasis on high quality report writing and ability to communicate technical issues clearly and effectively. 
• Good technical knowledge in high voltage transmission design with strong knowledge of transmission technology including new and emerging technologies. 
• Transmission Substation design expertise with experience assessing substation designs for conformity to standards at 110/220/400 kV. 
• Experience preparing and issuing transmission design drawings, such as single line diagrams, substation layout drawings, protection schematics and interlocking drawings, etc. 
• Proven ability to provide technical input to project managers and to track and monitor key tasks and take responsibility for own technical deliverables. 
• Experience completing onsite inspections and monitoring of construction progress and compliance. 
• Full drivers licence. 

Closing date for applications
4th July 2025

EirGrid is an Equal Opportunities Employer