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Job title: Senior Executive Quantity Surveyor
Location: Dublin
Closing Date: 3pm, Thursday, 30th October 2025
Salary: Starting at €79,090
About the Employer:
Fingal is a highly attractive place to live, work, visit and do business. It comprises a geographical area of 450 sq.km stretching from Balbriggan in the north, to Blanchardstown in the west and to Howth in the east. The area is defined by the diversity of its landscape and settlement patterns with rural, urban and suburban locations all rolled into one county. There is 88kms of coastline, three large protected estuaries and salt marsh habitats and 13 major beaches.
Fingal County Council is one of the county’s major local employers and currently employs approximately 1,600 staff. The Council is mandated to deliver a diverse range of functions and services which can be broadly described under the headings of the provision of physical and social infrastructure, housing, economic and tourism development, community development, recreation and amenity services and the management of the planning and environmental regulatory framework. The role of the County Council as provided for in law is to represent, lead and serve the communities of Fingal.
About the Role:
Fingal County Council is seeking to fill a post of Senior Executive Quantity Surveyor. This post is for a full-time position in the Architect’s Department, which is responsible for ensuring provision of a high level of Architectural Services consisting of architectural design, conservation, urban design and building procurement and quantity surveying services to all departments of Fingal County Council.
The Department has a varied pattern of work with a renewed emphasis on the provision of new social and affordable housing in line with government policy. In addition, it has a primary role in devising and implementing programmes to best use Fingal County Councils existing housing stock. The department also works on public and community buildings.
The Architects Department functions as an integrated service to all departments in the Council and the person appointed will report to the Senior Quantity Surveyor.
About You:
* Possess the requisite knowledge and ability (including ability to communicate effectively) and be competent to efficiently discharge the duties of the position;
* Have the ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines and to take a strategic approach in the delivery of key policy objectives, to foster a positive working relationship with colleagues and external stakeholders and to lead and work in multi-disciplinary teams;
* Have the capacity to conduct formal and informal inquiries effectively, to collect all the necessary information to report impartially and accurately, to draw conclusions and make recommendations; have the confidence to liaise with senior personnel, legal and other professionals and the ability to represent the Council where necessary in line with their role where required.
We are committed to a policy of equal opportunity and encourage applications under all nine grounds of the Employment Equality Act.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Other
Industries
Government Administration
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