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Simon Bucknell
Technology Practice Director & Founder
Permanent
Dublin, Dublin
£90,000
€60,000–€90,000 (DOE) · Hybrid — your choice of Irish office · Power, Renewables & Substations
Ireland is spending billions reinforcing its grid and connecting renewables. Every one of those projects starts life as a tender someone has to win, and the electrical engineering behind those tenders could be yours to own.
Here's why it's worth a look if you're settled somewhere already:
You'd own the electrical engineering scope on major Power, Renewable and Substation tenders — built to ESB and EirGrid specs. Not a slice of it. The whole electrical piece of the submission, end to end.
You pick which of the Irish offices you're based out of, and it's hybrid, this is predominantly office-based with the odd site visit, not five days commuting.
There's a formal Career Pathway Programme behind it, with genuine support towards chartered status — so this isn't a dead-end desk.
And if you've recently moved to Ireland, or are about to, they'll sponsor Stamp 1G and 1G spousal.
What you'd actually be doing
Taking employer's requirements, specs and preliminary drawings, and turning the electrical engineering into an accurate, technically compliant, commercially sharp tender submission. Finding the risk and pricing it. Coordinating the electrical, civil, cable and OHL interfaces. Dealing with equipment vendors and design consultants, and pressure-testing their quotes. Spotting value-engineering opportunities, feeding the tender programme and engineering budget, sitting in tender and post-tender meetings — then handing a won tender cleanly to the delivery team.
What you'll need
Three things, and they're not negotiable:
It'll help — but isn't essential — if you've also got
Substation and secondary design experience, ETAP (or similar power-system analysis software), familiarity with ESB / EirGrid specifications, or HV and renewables project exposure.
Who you'd be working for
A premier utility contractor that builds and maintains electrical and telecoms infrastructure across Ireland, GB and Northern Ireland, working on major grid, renewables and substation projects. The tendering and engineering team is growing, which is why this seat exists.
Helen Charteris | Practice Director, Global Power & Energy | embs. talent — Connecting the best talent across Transmission & Distribution, HV/EHV, substations, protection & control, renewables and data centre power, from Designer to CEO. helen@embstalent.co.uk
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