We are at the heart of Ireland’s energy transition - connecting, operating and transforming the electricity grid to support a low carbon, renewable future.
We are building talented teams that tackle real world challenges every day and help us to achieve our goal to prepare the grid to carry up to 80% of Ireland’s electricity from renewable sources.
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If you are ready to make an impact and grow your career in a purpose-led organisation, your journey starts here.
The Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity to deliver key Offshore projects. Offshore delivery is critical to Ireland from many aspects 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 asset management projects – on-time and within budget, adhering to established governance and controls. The role holder 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.
A core part of this role will involve the issuing of functional and technical specifications to both Phase 1 & Phase 2 Offshore developer led / EirGrid plan led projects and liaising with these external and internal stakeholders to resolve technical queries to ensure connections to the transmission system are in accordance with EirGrid’s Offshore specifications. These projects are critical to Ireland from many aspects including the achievement of our renewable targets and to continuation of sustainable economic growth for the country.
The Team
The 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 team sits within this office, ensuring alignment between technology strategy and offshore programme execution.
The Offshore Engineering function is responsible for undertaking project design reviews/site inspections on both contestable and non-contestable transmission projects to ensure that projects are developed in accordance with EirGrid functional specification and standards.
About you
Successful candidates will have:
- Engineering degree or equivalent, typically with 8 years relevant experience with a holistic understanding of the power industry
- Proven experience of managing a portfolio of largescale asset management projects – overseeing the delivery of complex solutions and an ability to drive successful outcomes
- HV transmission design expertise and will be able to assess HV transmission designs for conformity to standards and requirements.
- 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 12th June 2026
We value potential as much as experience. If you believe you can succeed in this role, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet every requirement.
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.