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Will McCaffrey
Principle Talent Partner - Global Power & Energy
County Kildare, County Kildare
£75,000
Kildare (just off the N7) · Office-based · Permanent
There's a reason good HV substation designers rarely go looking. The work finds them, and they tend to stay put.
So here's the case for moving.
This is an in-house electrical design team that's growing because the work keeps landing, not because someone drew it on an org chart. You'd be designing live HV and MV substation and grid-connection projects across Ireland, the kind that actually get built, for a turnkey business that does the design, the build and the commissioning end to end.
What you wouldn't be is a number. This is a company of around 110 people where you get direct access to the people who make the decisions, real exposure across the business rather than one narrow slice of it, and genuine investment in where you want to go next. The team gets sent abroad for specialist training when the work calls for it (SF6 gas work in Germany being one recent example).
If you've ever felt like a small cog in a big machine, sitting in your lane inside a giant consultancy or utility, this is the opposite of that.
This is an office-based role. There's a short, easy commute and parking on site, but it isn't a remote job, and a day a week from home only opens up after probation. If home working is your dealbreaker, this one isn't for you, and that's fine.
And ePlan is essential. Not a nice-to-have, not something you'll pick up once you're here. It's the single thing that separates the people we can put forward from the people we can't, so we're being upfront about it.
Be honest with yourself against these. If you've got all four, we want to talk.
Knowledge of the Irish market moves you up the pile. We've been deliberately clear on the must-haves, so if you meet them you'll hear back quickly.
Kildare, right off the N7, about 50 minutes from Dublin city centre and driving against the traffic. Plenty of parking on site.
This is a male-dominated industry and the company is actively working to change that. If you're a returning engineer, you've been put off power and utilities because it felt like a lads' club, or you've simply not seen yourself in a role like this before, we'd particularly like to hear from you. The flexibility and support here are real. This is a company that proves it rather than slogans about it.
Send your CV, even if it isn't bang up to date, and we'll set up a short, no-pressure call to work out whether it's a fit before anything goes further.
Will McCaffrey · will@embstalent.co.uk · +44 7512 542860
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