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Your New Role
The Ireland Roads team is seeking a Principal Engineer with extensive post-professional qualification experience in the design and project management of road schemes and active travel schemes.
You will lead and help grow a team undertaking concept, preliminary, and detailed designs for major national road schemes including the N/M20 Cork to Limerick Project, Public Transport schemes (including Cork BusConnects and Metrolink), and active travel schemes for the National Transport Authority and Local Authorities.
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Key Responsibilities
* Manage projects to ensure coordination and compatibility of multi-disciplinary inputs on projects of varying scale, complexity, and value.
* Liaise with clients, developing strong trusted relationships, proactively managing their expectations, and comprehensively advising them.
* Undertake project technical lead and reviewer roles.
* Use your technical ability and experience to develop our staff.
* 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.
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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.