Highways Engineer - Dublin & Cork jobs at Jacobs in Ireland, Dublin

You’ll be based in Dublin or the surrounding area, with the flexibility to work from home and the expectation to be in the office or on client sites at least two days per week.

As Senior or Principal Drainage Engineer, you’ll play a key role in supporting the Drainage Discipline Lead in delivering drainage design services across all stages of project development. You’ll work closely with colleagues in Ireland, the UK, and globally to ensure technical excellence and seamless coordination. You’ll also help develop junior engineers and contribute to the continuous improvement of our drainage capability.

We are seeking a Senior Utilities/Infrastructure Engineer with experience in the design, coordination and construction of utilities (electrical, telecommunications, water, gas, foul etc.) ideally in an urban highway setting. You’ll join a team that has an enviable reputation in the Water & Environment consultancy sector as a result of a portfolio of high-profile projects with market leading clients . As part of a global drainage delivery team, you will play a key role in delivering Water/Environmental and transportation drainage design services throughout all stages of project development on multi-disciplinary projects.

BusConnects is a strategic national-level intervention for Ireland that will enhance sustainable transportation and the environment by upgrading walking, cycling and bus infrastructure in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, and Waterford.

We have been appointed by the National Transport Authority (NTA) as their Client Partner to deliver Dublin’s BusConnects infrastructure. This will include providing programme management and multi-disciplinary expertise over a 10-year programme to deliver 12 schemes comprising 230 kilometres of continuous bus priority corridors and 200 kilometres of cycle paths and improved pedestrian facilities from procurement through to handover of this new infrastructure. The role would suit someone from a civil engineering background with specific experience on highways/roads projects.

We’ll Expect You To:

• Provide water quality and regulatory advice and strategy to municipal clients

• Support regulatory negotiations with the Washington State Department of Ecology

• Provide reviews of deliverables

• Provide mentoring to other Jacobs staff

With 50 years of experience as innovators in biopharma facilities, our more than 3,800 skilled architectural, engineering and construction professionals continue to work with our clients to drive innovations in the industry. We provide a single-source of responsibility for all services, from strategy and concept through site selection and evaluation, regulatory compliance, design, constructability, construction management, commissioning, validation and startup. We also provide operations support and asset management services, including plant engineering, maintenance optimization and traditional maintenance and turnaround services.

The successful candidate must have strong leadership and planning qualities, be adaptable to change and be comfortable working cross functional design and production teams delivering to strict deadlines and budgets. Pharmaceutical process knowledge, equipment specification development and understanding of validation is required.

Key tasks and responsibilities:

• Participating in the Process Design for Life Science projects for the introduction of new products, equipment, and processes to meet all safety, quality, regulatory and operational requirements.
• Supporting Process development (as part of technical transfer), troubleshooting and optimisation.
• Development of process estimates, including equipment costs.
• Working with a cross functional Design team to ensure accurate completion of Detailed Design, on time and on budget
• Working with a cross functional team as part of project planning and deployment; including collaboration with supporting departments such as Technical Development, Production/Operations, Quality, Safety, Facilities and Engineering. Process mapping, gap analysis/identification for new and existing pharmaceutical manufacturing processes.
• Equipment specification, process design, commissioning (if required) and as building
• Development and Management of the Change Control for the Project

Other functional responsibilities:

• Co-ordinating design changes using the Client approved change control procedure to ensure that cGMP is adhered to.
• Generation, review and approval of project documentation (Scope, User Requirement Specifications etc)
• Supervision of Junior Process Engineers if specific project requires additional support
• Support validation activities for project activities including review of validation documentation and attendance at validation activities as required (FAT, IQ, OQ etc).
• To provide technical support to system end users of new and existing equipment including but not limited to troubleshooting technical issues and assisting with process investigations.
• To facilitate and participate in meetings and workshops as part of Projects and Continuous Improvement activities.
• Hazop attendance and management of the closeout of the Hazop Recommendations
• Provide technical updates to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) related to the equipment/process changes
• To adhere fully to all safety policies, procedures and regulations.
• To record and report any Process changes relating to the projects, which could impact budget and schedule
• To create, review and approve Site Engineering Specifications and other documents as required, ensuring the acceptability of content and format.