Job Description

AtkinsRéalis one of the world’s leading providers of engineering professional consulting and support services with offices across Ireland.

The Role:

You will be a Utilities Design Engineer embedded within our Irish infrastructure projects, providing overall technical leadership for utility design and coordination. This role involves close collaboration with clients, design teams, and contractors to ensure timely approvals, integration with enabling works, and effective risk mitigation. You will play a key role in driving design excellence and ensuring utility works are delivered efficiently and safely.

Responsibilities:

Provide technical leadership for utility design across major infrastructure projects.
Undertake liaison with clients, utility providers, and stakeholders to ensure alignment and approvals.
Integration of utility designs with enabling and main works, ensuring constructability and programme alignment.
Coordinate the design approval process, ensuring compliance with regulatory and statutory requirements.
Identify and mitigate risks associated with utility diversions and new installations.
Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure seamless delivery of utility-related works.
Support value engineering and innovation in utility design solutions.
Monitor and report on design progress, risks, and issues to project leadership.

Requirements:

Chartered Engineer (CEng) or on route to achieving CEng status.
Degree-qualified in Civil Engineering or a related discipline.
Proven experience in leading utility design on medium - large-scale infrastructure projects.
Strong understanding of Irish utility regulations, codes, and approval processes.
Demonstrated ability to manage complex stakeholder relationships.
Excellent problem-solving, communication, and coordination skills.
Experience with enabling works and early-stage project planning is advantageous.

About Us:

At AtkinsRéalis we put Environment, Sustainability and Health & Safety at the heart of our business strategy. We possess a significant breadth of knowledge and depth of skills and experience for the ultimate benefit of our clients. We build long-term trusted partnerships to create a world where lives are enriched through the implementation of our ideas. Together with our clients, we’re always striving to find better ways to get things done. We are a certified CPD Accredited employer with Engineers Ireland and we were named Engineers Ireland CPD Employer of the year in 2021.

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and ability.

Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.