Overview
Closing Date: 3pm, Thursday, 5th February 2026
About the Employer:
Dublin City Council has a unique and critical role in local government: it is the largest local authority in Ireland, with 63 Elected Members representing and serving 588,000 people in the city area. It plays a pivotal role in the provision of services to the almost 1.5 million people in the Dublin Region, and in ensuring that the city can welcome and support a large number of visitors on a daily basis for employment, business, recreation and tourism.
Dublin City Council takes the lead role in shaping the strategic vision of Dublin as a dynamic and sustainable city and seeks to continually enhance the city’s attractiveness as a place in which to invest, to work, to live and to visit.
Dublin City Council is entering a period of significant transformation, with a renewed focus on innovation, sustainability, and digital enablement. The City Engineer will play a pivotal leadership role in shaping the future of Dublin’s infrastructure, ensuring it meets the evolving needs of citizens, businesses, and visitors in a dynamic urban environment.
About the Role:
This is a great opportunity to join Dublin City Council at a time of transformation and innovation. The City Engineer’s role principally involves the overall co-ordination and direction of the City’s engineering infrastructural projects; the City’s engineering services; and the management of engineering works required for major incidents and emergencies in the City. They also have responsibility for the efficient and effective development, and maintenance and operation of the City’s engineering infrastructure, to ensure that the City’s current and future infrastructural needs are met.
The City Engineer will be a strategic leader, responsible not only for the delivery and maintenance of infrastructure but also for driving innovation, excellence in project delivery, and the adoption of digital and data-driven approaches. The role demands a visionary mindset, strong leadership, and the ability to collaborate across disciplines and sectors.
The City Engineer duties include but are not limited to the following:
Provide expert advice and support to the City Council on engineering issues;
Take a lead role in the Council on the development of policy on engineering issues;
Oversee the Council’s engineering programme on the planning, design, construction, maintenance and operation of the City’s infrastructure including the areas of roads, bridges, associated structures, surface water drainage, flood management, flood defence and river basin management;
Oversee the Council’s Corporate Project Support Office;
Drive excellence in project and programme management across engineering functions, ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and to the highest standards of quality and safety;
Champion innovation in engineering practices, including the adoption of emerging technologies such as Building Information Modelling (BIM), digital twins, and smart infrastructure solutions;
Lead the integration of climate resilience and sustainability principles into all engineering projects and infrastructure planning;
Foster collaborative relationships with internal departments, external agencies, academic institutions, and the private sector to deliver integrated and future-proofed infrastructure solutions;
Act as spokesperson for the City Council on engineering issues and to lead the Council’s contribution to public debate on these issues;
Advise the Chief Executive on the allocation of professional engineering resources;
Provide management and leadership to the professional engineering staff in the City Council including having oversight of the career/professional development of engineers, the provision of training for engineers etc.
Carry out such other duties as may be assigned from time to time.
About You:
Candidates shall on the latest date for receipt of completed applications:
(a) (i) hold an honours bachelors degree (level 8 on the National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) in Engineering accredited at CEng or CEng with FL level by Engineers Ireland*
OR (ii) hold an ordinary bachelors degree (level 7) on the National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) in Engineering AND a post-graduate masters degree (level 9 in the National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) in Engineering;
OR (iii) hold a masters degree (level 9 in the National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) in Engineering attained after completing an integrated masters level programme of at least 4 years duration and which is accredited at CEng level by Engineers Ireland or an equivalent accreditation body internationally;
OR (iv) have achieved the registered professional title of Chartered Engineer and be registered on the Register of Chartered Engineers of Engineers Ireland or of a professional institute of another country and recognised by Engineers Ireland as of equivalent status;
(b) Have at least ten years satisfactory experience of engineering work, including a period of not less that eight years satisfactory experience in the direction and supervision of major engineering work;
(c) Possess a high standard of technical training and experience and of administrative experience;
(d) Have satisfactory experience at strategic management level;
(e) Have a satisfactory knowledge of public service organisation or the ability to acquire such knowledge.
The Closing Date for this competition is Thursday, 5th of February at 3pm.
We are committed to a policy of equal opportunity and encourage applications under all nine grounds of the Employment Equality Act.
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