Offshore Senior Lead Project Engineers - Offshore (E2026047-49)
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
This is an exciting opportunity for Project Engineers who is interested in working with the Offshore Delivery team to deliver key Offshore projects. Offshore delivery is critical to Ireland including the achievement of our renewable targets and to continuation of sustainable economic growth for the country.
The role involves the project management and project engineering of technically complex, large scale offshore projects – on-time and within budget, adhering to established governance and controls. The role holders will work on projects across their entire life cycle – from project initiation, through construction, commissioning/user acceptance testing, go live and right up to project close/lessons learnt.
The Team
The Chief Transformation & Technology Office (CTTO) is responsible for driving innovation, digital transformation, and strategic technology delivery across EirGrid. It plays a central role in enabling the organisation to meet its decarbonisation and infrastructure goals through the deployment of modern systems, data intelligence, and programme governance frameworks.
The Offshore Phase 1 and Offshore Asset Readiness Programme (OARP) team is a pivotal team supporting delivery of Ireland’s offshore wind targets by 2030 and beyond. The team provides strategic and technical oversight and delivery across Phase 1 offshore projects and the OARP—a multi-year transformation programme spanning 30 capability areas. It ensures alignment with the CRU’s Offshore Revenue Model and supports EirGrid’s regulatory, operational, and financial readiness.
About you
Successful candidates will have:
- Proven experience of managing a portfolio of largescale asset management projects – overseeing the delivery of complex solutions and an ability to drive successful outcomes
- Passionate, engaging with a drive and enthusiasm to deliver on the company strategy with and through others
- Excellent communicator, able to articulate technical concepts and analysis to non-technical audiences and business leaders
- Ability to coach and develop high performance capabilities in a changing and dynamic environment
- Expertise in conceiving and introducing innovative ideas, solutions or new ways of doing things to solve business problems, collaborating with business experts along the way
- Strong understanding of the requirements of stakeholders and industry for the transmission system and associated developments
- Commercial awareness with strong vendor management skills.
- Full drivers licence
Closing date for applications
Closing date is 31st October 2025
We're dedicated to diversity and inclusion at Eirgrid. We recognise the strength that comes from having a diverse workforce and the importance of a supportive culture for all our people to achieve their potential. Our diversity and inclusion networks have been designed to create an inclusive culture that enables our people to feel a sense of belonging at work.
As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Reasonable accommodations are offered at every stage of our recruitment process.