Water Network Management Lead Engineer

The Role

The Asset Management and Sustainability area is responsible for the development of asset policies, strategies and plans to determine the significant investment required into Ireland's infrastructure. The area drives investment and the Sustainability and Innovation agenda for the organisation and leads on Environmental Regulation and Compliance activities, ensuring the quality of water and wastewater is continuously monitored.

The Water Network Management function is responsible for the strategic planning, prioritisation, and direction of Uisce Éireann's Capital Works across the water supply networks. It plays a key role in promoting collaboration and coordination of activities across the four asset functions as well as providing water network management expertise across Uisce Éireann. It is accountable for ensuring the achievement of the outcomes and outputs associated with the delivery of capital investment in the water network in key areas such as leakage, mains rehabilitation and water network quality.

Reporting to the Leakage Programme Manager, the Water Network Management Lead Engineer plays a key role in promoting collaboration and coordination of asset planning activities across the three asset functions. This includes the development of the leakage strategy, roll out of asset standards and policies, the use of common tools and the identification, approval and prioritisation of investment needs nationally. The role holder works closely with Asset Operations, Infrastructure Delivery and other third parties to deliver on services for Uisce Éireann customers and supports assessments and decision making in relation to leakage reduction and system capacity to support growth.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Act as project sponsor through all the formal workshop in a project's life.
• Lead the development and support of processes for collecting and analysing asset data for strategic planning and risk assessment across all Water Network Management programmes.
• Analyse and interpret data and information from various sources required for the completion of technical assessments and development of leakage action plans.
• Perform technical assessments of assets to inform future investment needs, including prioritisation assessments for Leakage Reduction and Growth programmes, and identification of value opportunities.
• Support continuous improvement of Drinking Water Safety Plans, Supply Demand Balance and Risk assessments.
• Assist in preparation of business cases and capital investment approval papers for programmes delivered within the Water Service Below Ground Sub Portfolio.
• Represent the Water Network Tactical team at meetings as required across the region and prepare information for submissions.
• Provide progress reports and updates for Water Network Planning.
• Identify and collaborate on key data improvement initiatives for critical information on all proposed projects and programmes. Ensure appropriate information is collated and managed to facilitate prioritisation of projects and reporting to stakeholders.
• Develop Asset Standards, Policies and Specifications to meet regulatory requirements.
• Provide engineering support to the wider Water Network Management team as required.

General Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaboration with key internal stakeholders across the UÉ business.
• Responsible for promoting and delivering health and safety commitments across UÉ and its supply chain, reinforcing positive behaviours and delivering health and safety objectives and requirements to the highest industry standards.
• Support the delivery of the Uisce Éireann Transformation Programme, driving results required within the Directorate and supporting organisation-wide objectives.
• Conduct duties and responsibilities in accordance with Uisce Éireann's Information Security policies, standards, processes and controls to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of UÉ business information and delivery of critical services, in accordance with the NIS Directive and any other relevant cybersecurity regulation.
• Other duties as required.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Relevant third level qualification and or accreditation is desirable.
• A minimum of 5 years' experience in the water, utilities or similar industries is desirable and or relevant experience.
• Proven track record of creating a collaborative environment and communicating clearly within the team.
• Proven track record of dealing with complex issues, proactively and in a timely fashion and of communicating complex information to others.
• Experience in managing end to end processes to ensure delivery meets customer expectations.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to identify and analyse problems and potential improvements, and propose and implement solutions.
• Demonstrate adaptability and the ability to change focus and direction in line with business strategy and requirements.
• Proactively identifying new areas of improvement and using newly gained knowledge and skill on the job.
• Skilled in continuously reviewing safety practices and suggesting ways for improvement.

Closing Date

17/06/2026

Salary

Salary range is based on your skills and experience. The market reference point (midpoint) of the range is generally the upper end of the offer where someone is deemed to be fully competent to take on the duties of the role, and leaves room for the employee to progress through the pay range as their experience develops further.

Uisce Éireann is an equal opportunities employer.

We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive place of work and have a robust strategy and framework called ibelong to enable this. We are an equal opportunity employer and through our recruitment process we welcome and encourage applications from suitable individuals regardless of gender, age, racial or ethnic origin, membership of the traveller community, religion or beliefs, family or civil status, sexual orientation/gender identity or disability.