Engineering Officer, Kilkenny at ESB
Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

11 Aug, 25

Salary

0.0

Posted On

11 May, 25

Experience

3 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

Good communication skills

Industry

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing

Description

POSITION DESCRIPTION

The Engineering Officer is responsible for providing safe network designs within your discipline. These design packs will be used by ESB Networks staff and/or contractors as per Work Programs to carry out work safely on the Electricity Network. The designs shall be carried out in line with relevant standards set down by ESB Network Assets and adhering to Company Standards. Depending upon the specific role assignment this design work can be related to domestic, commercial and industrial new or increased customer connections. In addition, the design work may be associated with the Capital Work Programmes including line design from LV to 38kV and underground design.
All design work is required to be completed in a timely manner and in line with the ESB design standards & guidelines and ensuring that ESB Networks Customer Charter standards are adhered to. The role includes managing your own design workload. The successful candidate will have the ability to work on their own initiative but also as part of a larger design team and will be required to follow schedules set down by their design manager

Responsibilities
  • Preparing high quality designs; calculating costs; preparing capital approvals, work authorisations, protection settings, design drawings; measuring design clearances, for 38kV, MV, and LV networks, including use of all associated IT systems
  • Preparing Scopes of work, costing templates and safety documentation
  • Recording and updating the Distribution Network on the relevant IT systems
  • Maintaining commercial focus by preparing least cost technically acceptable designs
  • Liaising and negotiating with Local Authorities, landowners and other parties to obtain routes for underground cables and overhead lines in accordance with legislation and ESB policies
  • Compliance with legislation and ESB Policy in relation to obtaining consent from landowners including issuing wayleaves
  • Arranging cable easements and forestry easements and arranging road opening and closure licences where required. Applying for and processing Road Opening Licences
  • Following ESB’s Code of Ethics “Our Code”
  • Processing Site Acquisition and Planning Permission applications as required
  • Manage own design workload as agreed with the relevant Design Manager
  • Delivering an excellent customer service in line with ESB Networks Customer Charter
  • Participating in the correlation and scheduling of construction work
  • Compliance with Health & Safety Legislation and Environmental Legislation
  • Fulfil the role of Designer under the Construction Regulations
  • Gaining and maintaining an excellent knowledge of HV / MV / LV Electrical Networks depending on specific area of work and expertise
  • Providing support in the planning and execution of construction and maintenance work programmes as required
  • Use of IT systems such as SAP IWM, EPlan, SAP FMIS, Excel etc
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