Job Description

Overview

A Utilities Design Lead / Manager 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.

Your role

Provide overall technical leadership for utility design across major infrastructure projects.
Act as the primary liaison with clients, utility providers, and stakeholders to ensure alignment and approvals.
Oversee the integration of utility designs with enabling and main works, ensuring constructability and programme alignment.
Lead 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.

About you

Chartered Engineer (CEng) status is essential.
Degree-qualified in Civil Engineering or a related discipline.
Proven experience in leading utility design on 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.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries and a brilliant range of health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle benefits. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture, international remote working opportunities, and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

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About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Additional information

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. 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.

Utilities Manager

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