**Clear Purpose and Values Alignment**
We are looking for a Principal Engineer to join our Ireland Roads team in Limerick.
The successful candidate will lead and grow a team undertaking concept, preliminary, and detailed designs for major national road schemes, public transport schemes, and active travel schemes.
**Key Responsibilities:**
* Manage projects to ensure coordination and compatibility of multi-disciplinary inputs on projects of varying scale, complexity, and value.
* Liaise with clients, develop strong trusted relationships, proactively manage their expectations, and comprehensively advise them.
* Undertake project technical lead and reviewer roles.
* Develop staff using your technical ability and experience.
* Prepare fee proposals and manage budgets for individual projects.
* Be responsible for the development and delivery of discrete and overall project solutions.
* Lead and manage other staff members in the delivery of design drawings, standard construction details, specifications, and bill of quantities, supporting the preparation of tender packages.
* Ensure compliance with Health & Safety and Environmental Legislation and in-house quality assurance standards/processes.
**Requirements:**
* Project management and technical delivery lead of Road or Public Transport/Active Travel schemes, with experience of Transport Infrastructure Ireland/National Transport Authority/Local Authority procedures essential.
* Experience of contract document preparation or contract administration/site supervision using Public Works Contracts.
* A chartered member of a relevant engineering technical institution.
* Experience or knowledge of alignment and drainage design software packages such as Civil3D/Open Roads and WinDes preferred, but not essential.
* Good communication, client management, and interpersonal skills are essential.
* Excellent IT skills including MS Projects.
* A thorough understanding and application of current design standards including Urban Street and/or Active Travel Design (i.e. Design Manual for Urban Roads and Streets - DMURS, The Traffic Signs Manual, the Cycle Design Manual etc.), Highway Geometric Design (i.e. Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) Publications), and also TII and NTA Project Management Guidelines.
* Strong stakeholder management experience.