Project Director (Infrastructure) Ireland Ireland Dublin Application Deadline 06 February 2026

Project Director (Infrastructure) Ireland

Project Director - Infrastructure - Ireland

Dublin

Permanent

Office/Home Hybrid Working

Do you want to help drive and expand our business in Ireland? Can you manage infrastructure projects? Are you an experienced Project Director? Then, join us and we can excel together.

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow

To grow our engineering consultancy in Ireland, we are seeking a Project Director to lead our infrastructure projects. You'll work with the Head of Ireland, UK Heads of Discipline, UK Heads of Sector and Market Directors to deliver growth, ensuring we have the right skills and number of people in the business to deliver backlog and pipeline and meet current and future needs of your sector.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Leadership in business development by building and developing client relationships, to secure future work with new and existing clients.
• Leadership of project delivery be it civil, structural and geotechnical engineers across our infrastructure disciplines plus any other multi discipline teams engaged on projects.
• Responsibility for growing scope and services provided on current projects Contract review and negotiation.
• Key account and project client management.
• Preparing bids, including fee proposals, technical responses, programmes, tender designs, risk screenings and bid submission notes.
• Meeting project financial, schedule, quality and client satisfaction goals.
• Contributing to regular month-end closure activities including project estimates and resolving project overruns.
• Provide sparring support to PMs on your projects, and provide a senior point of escalation for customers above PM.
• Planning and operating assigned design projects within your portfolio, including risk management, interface management & resource management.
• Support the UK&I Heads of Discipline in aligning the capability and capacity of your office team with the current and future needs of the wider discipline team, and in ensuring the effective utilisation of their time and skills day-to-day.
• Support in the recruitment of new employees into your teams as a hiring manager, in alignment with the discipline growth strategy.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.

Like us, you believe that leadership success comes from setting a clear and meaningful direction for your team and supporting them in contributing meaningfully to their work. You are a leader of others, who delegates responsibility and ensures an open and safe dialogue. You coach your people to reach their personal goals through constructive, fact-based feedback. Attracting and nurturing a diverse group of high-potential team members is at the top of your agenda, as is creating an inclusive, caring and trusting culture in your team.

On top of that, you'll have:

• Possess Chartered status or APM PMQ (or equivalent)
• Efficient leadership skills and demonstrated ability to supervise and motivate teams across our local, regional and international offices.
• Proven experience operating as a Lead Client contact for consultancy services and to further enhance our partnerships and market presence.
• Experience as an effective people leader, able to communicate effectively, engage and lead a team of civil, structural and tunnel engineers, supporting their performance and professional development.
• Significant experience guiding project teams and handling the technical delivery of projects, either as client's or contractor's designer Project management experience within infrastructure design and delivery with ability to transfer these skillsets to execute delivery on other sector portfolios if / as required.
• Experience and ability to see linear infrastructure projects through from concept to completion within a professional service environment
• Extensive business acumen coupled with solid technical skills
• Willingness and ability to travel to suit project needs
• Innovative and creative mindset.
• Clean Driving Licence

A place to work and so much more.

At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity - and sometimes even our courage - to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. That is why we say no to fossil-based projects and aspire to have 100% of our revenue come from activities that move our customers towards sustainability.

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.

With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, Ireland, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 8,000 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

What we also offer:

To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to support our people both professionally and personally.

Some of our benefits include:

• 28 days' holiday plus bank and public holidays
• Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities
• Flexible and hybrid working conditions
• Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions
• Life assurance

As part of our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion, we partner with the wisecampaign.org.uk to recruit for a better gender balance in our teams.

If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Ciaran Gilfedder at .

Get to know us even better at our website, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

Equal opportunity employer.

COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.