Ceannasaí Teicniúil Meastacháin / Estimation Technical Lead

The Role:

The Commercial Function within the Infrastructure Delivery Directorate is responsible for providing the Directorate with expert commercial and contract management knowledge required to deliver the Capital Investment Plan. As the commercial centre of excellence driving consistency in the management of contractual arrangements, this team works to minimise risk and increase efficiency in the delivery of the CIP. They are responsible for building commercial competence and capability within the directorate, increasing and evidencing value, whilst reducing commercial, quality and supervisory risk from the way the portfolio is delivered. There are three core departments within the Commercial Function: Commercial & Contract Management, Estimation and Cost Intelligence, and Construction Services.

The Estimation and Cost Intelligence Team enhances understanding of our costs and the ability to predict when and why cost changes occur, and what actions may be taken to mitigate them. They provide estimates throughout the project life cycle and maintain the systems that underpin these estimates. They work closely with Asset Management, Finance and Regulation to ensure accurate forecasts underpin investment plans and revenue control periods. This team continually reviews estimating methodologies to ensure the most appropriate and robust processes are incorporated into our estimating practices, providing confidence and credibility to project estimates.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Co ordinating the development of estimates at key project milestones from project optioneering through to concept and detailed design stages in accordance with the Cost Estimating Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).
• Assist with the development of whole life cost estimates, supporting IDD and Asset Management and Sustainability projects teams following process and procedures to ensure the outputs are robust and credible.
• Assist with estimation reporting across the capital portfolio benchmarking against regulatory and internal baselines.
• Assist with project financial and economic appraisal information required under the Infrastructure Guidelines (IG's).
• Assist in the development of cost intelligence within the business.
• Assist with the implementation and continuous improvement of estimation tools to support appropriate assessment of programme/project cost across the portfolios including benchmarking and maintenance of construction, overhead, operating and carbon costs database.
• Responsible for implementing the training plan associated with the Cost Estimating SOP and associated estimation support tools.
• Managing outsourced estimation service providers.
• Supporting the development and delivery of cross functional initiatives associated with estimation to support the enhancement of the end to end asset lifecycle.
• Undertaking industry best practice benchmarking to feed into an estimation continuous improvement strategy.
• Support the Infrastructure Delivery management team to develop and deliver an estimating strategy that ensures the delivery of the Capital Investment Plan.
• Raise and escalates issues relating to estimation affecting portfolio delivery, as appropriate.
• Drive high performance, setting the standard for continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance with standards and processes.

General Duties and Responsibilities:

• Collaboration with key internal stakeholders across the UÉ business, including but not limited to;
• Promote and deliver 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:

• Demonstrable commercial, estimating, cost engineering or similar experience.
• Relevant third level qualification and/or accreditation is desirable.
• A minimum of 5 years' experience in the water, utilities or similar relevant industries is desirable.
• Experience in managing end-to-end processes to ensure delivery meets customer expectations.
• Ability to develop and maintain effective strategic partnerships with key stakeholders internally and externally and offer guidance and support to make the right decisions.
• Highly motivated individual, working to the highest professional and ethical standards with proven ability to deliver results.
• Proactively identifying new areas of improvement by challenging current processes and encouraging creative thinking.
• Experience in contributing to a safe working environment by checking regularly that safety and wellbeing practices are being followed.

The closing date for receipt of applications for this vacancy is 09/07/2026.

Please note that applications submitted after this closing date will not be accepted.

Please be advised that if successful you will be placed on the salary range based on your skills and experience. Please note 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 interested and suitably qualified 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.