5861
Civil Design Engineer
Dublin, Ireland
Engineering
Permanent
5861
Posted on:
February 4, 2026
The Highlights:
The Role:
Elusav Recruitment have a great opportunity for a Civil Design Engineer with one of Irelands most reputable and largest Engineering contractors based in their Dublin HQ, and supporting local and international D&B projects. In particular the company have just been awarded a 1.5 Billion euro DC project in Paris, and looking to resource their Central engineering team in Dublin as a result.
Reporting to the Central Engineering manager, the Civil Design Engineer will be responsible for ensuring technical compliance on all project and, management of RIBA3-5 design processes and procedures. Some duties of the role involve attending design team meetings, managing procurement and technical submittals, assisting with tenders, producing deliverables and occasional site visits.
Job Responsibilities:
- Assist in developing Design Delivery Schedules/Programmes along with the Client, Project Manager, Design team and consultants.
- Coaching/mentoring junior engineers on projects.
- Attending design related meetings and provide continual input to optimize design and minimize futile work, in person or through MSTF teams.
- Procure the design from a consultant design partner from initial tender enquiry to appointment.
- Liaison with the consultants responsible for the design on projects.
- Liaising with any third parties required, such as Clients, insurance companies, consultants, vendors, architects, etc.
- Review of the completed design to ensure it is accurate and precise.
- Managing the following registers throughout the project design period: Procurement schedule; Technical submittal register; Drawing register; RFI log; Deviation tracker; Lessons learned log; Issues log; Interface and scope gap tracker; Design change control tracker.
- Monitor all engineering schedules and trackers throughout the course of each project.
- Managing technical submittals & drawing approvals to ensure all is approved for procurement/installation.
- Develop comprehensive scope-of-work and contract document deliverables list for each related discipline.
- Negotiate scope-of-work, deliverables and price with consulting firms.
- Assist with technical workload on the projects you are involved with.
- Assist the project teams with better buying – review all orders technically and ensure the best price is obtained.
- Assist the Project Manager in incorporating onto a tracking sheet all internal and external design changes and cost issues.
- Manage distribution and production of project workload within the project team and design consultant team.
- Collaborate on new design issues/changes and research projects with team.
- Review programme on each project, check design, submittal approval and procurement is in line with programme requirements.
- Planning, programming and reporting.
- Manage design document control.
- Project prioritization of design, assignment and management to designers.
- Lead with effective supervision an experienced design team to ensure delivery on schedule.
- Closely track design deliverables to ensure project milestones are met.
- Implement recovery strategy if slippage is detected.
- Participate in departmental strategic planning.
- Assist technically as needed with the Business Unit.
- Collaborate on new design issues/changes and research projects.
- Manage CSA design document control and track design deliverables to ensure project milestones are met.
- Challenge the consultants and Company's teams to value engineer.
- Audit the project documentation structure at regular intervals as requested by Engineering manager.
- Assist project teams to setup O&M manual index and trackers early in the project.
- Produce a report for the projects you are working on, and issue it to the Engineering Manager as required.
- Assist with tenders for new projects when required, such as, the reviewing of documentation, assisting the Estimating Department, etc.
- Attending site when requested.
- Producing deliverables such as plant replacement schedules/lift and shift schedules.
- Develop comprehensive scope-of-work and contract document deliverables list for each related CSA discipline.
- Assist with Value Engineering (VE) log for the DC&BS group.
- Assist with setting up design trackers across each project, all projects must follow the same processes.
- Assist in reviewing Project Responsibility matrices and Design RACI matrices to ensure alignment with project scope.
- Coordination of design management strategies on DCBS projects.
- Support the CE team regarding completion of Cx design related drawings, schematics, etc.
- Assist the project teams with better buying – Review all orders and ensure best price is obtained. Keep VE log up to date on a quarterly basis.
- Ensure that there are sufficient engineering personnel assigned to the project at a given time and that lookaheads are completed and issued to relevant personnel, i.e. management and commercial teams.
- Engage in the recruitment process for engineers at all levels from Graduates to Lead Engineers. Engagement involves setting criteria for selection, developing Roles & Responsibility, interviews, selection, etc.
- Manage the Company People Platform (MPP) from all aspects of setting goals, compensation review, ratings, maintaining organisation chart, approving leave, etc.
- Ensure that the Engineering SOP’s are robust, current, implemented & in use on projects and, where required, developed/implemented as needed.
- Engage with planning and construction in producing programmes/schedules, primarily advising on the design phased elements, material lead times and on an ongoing basis updating progress.
- Advise planning on any impacts that result from change management, issue, material delays and technical issues and potential mitigation.
- Engage in development of off-site workshops & assembles and sub-contractor schedules to ensure engineering input is captured.
- Oversee BIM involvement for engineering aspects.
- Ensure BIM queries/enquiries, such as Request-For-Information (RFI) posts on BIM360, are managed and responded to in a timely manner.
- Ensure the final handover requirements are to be considered in all the various steps associated with engineering from submittal to installation acceptance.
- Ensure all safety requirements are met and reiterate to engineering and site teams continuously the importance of same and in particular the new members.
- Engage with Offsite Site Assembly (OSA) and Offsite Site Manufacturing (OSM) to ensure engineering requirements are aligned prior to commencing, monitor during construction and meet handover requirements.
- All other tasks related to engineering role that is requested by the Engineering Manager.
- All other duties associated with this role and/or reasonably required by the Company.
- The Company reserves the right to vary the scope and nature of the Employee’s normal duties to take into account changes in the Company’s work patterns and practices and the requirements of its business.
Job Requirements:
- Third level qualification in Design Engineering with a lean on Civil/ Structural/ Architectural design works.
- Experience working as a CSA Design Engineer on data centres/ large scale plant projects.
- BIM 360 experience.
If you would like to learn more about the vacancy, apply now, or contact Stephen O'Brien on stephen@elusav.com or +3536959993.
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