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We are building talented teams that tackle real world challenges every day and help us to achieve our goal to prepare the grid to carry up to 80% of Ireland's electricity from renewable sources.

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If you are ready to make an impact and grow your career in a purpose-led organisation, your journey starts here.

The Opportunity

The Facilities Manager will lead the delivery of safe, resilient and sustainable facilities and workplace services across EirGrid. The role is for ensuring that workplace environments, critical infrastructure and engineering systems support EirGrid's current and future operational requirements, business continuity and strategic objectives.

The successful candidate will provide strong technical advice, lead internal and external resources, and drive strong governance, compliance, sustainability and continuous improvement across the function.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the facilities and workplace service model across EirGrid locations, ensuring alignment with organisational strategy and evolving business requirements.
• Establish service standards, performance measures and governance arrangements, holding internal teams and external providers accountable for delivery.
• Develop medium- and long-term facilities, maintenance and asset lifecycle plans to protect operational resilience and inform capital investment priorities.
• Lead workplace improvement, refurbishment and fit-out programmes, with accountability for scope, cost, quality, risk and delivery.
• Drive service transformation and continuous improvement to deliver sustainable, high-quality and value-for-money outcomes.
• Provide strategic oversight of engineering and critical infrastructure systems, including HVAC, electrical distribution, UPS, generators, fire protection, BMS, security and access control systems, ensuring capacity, reliability and resilience align with current and future organisational needs.
• Own the lifecycle management of critical assets, ensuring statutory and manufacturer compliance and recommending replacement and investment priorities.
• Lead facilities-related risk, compliance and assurance arrangements, ensuring effective controls and compliance with relevant health and safety, environmental and regulatory requirements.
• Act as the senior technical authority for facilities-related risks, advising senior management on material issues, investment requirements and appropriate mitigation.
• Own emergency preparedness, incident management and corrective action arrangements, ensuring significant risks and incidents are escalated appropriately.
• Own the commercial and performance management of significant facilities contracts, service providers and operational and capital budgets, prioritising expenditure and ensuring effective governance, service quality and value for money.
• Build strategic relationships with senior internal stakeholders, regulators, contractors and specialist advisers, influencing decisions that affect workplace services and critical infrastructure.
• Provide authoritative technical advice and clear business recommendations to senior management on facilities strategy, material risks, service priorities and investment decisions.
• Lead, develop and allocate internal and external resources, setting clear priorities and fostering a culture of accountability, technical excellence, collaboration and continuous improvement.

About You

• Third-level qualification (Level 8 or equivalent) in Facilities Management, Engineering, Building Services, Property Management or a related discipline.
• Available to be onsite up to 5 days per week.
• Typically seven or more years' relevant experience, including significant responsibility for facilities or engineering services in a complex, regulated or critical infrastructure environment.
• Demonstrated experience developing and implementing facilities, workplace, asset management or infrastructure strategies.
• Proven accountability for significant operational and capital budgets, complex contracts and investment planning.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing delivery through external service providers and specialist advisers.
• Experience leading capital projects, service transformation or material workplace improvement programmes, with accountability for risk, business continuity and asset lifecycle management.
• Experience with commercial judgement and senior stakeholder influence, with the ability to evaluate risk, balance competing priorities, translate complex technical matters into clear business recommendations and make decisions with organisation-wide implications.

We value potential as much as experience. If you believe you can succeed in this role, we encourage you to apply, even if you don't meet every requirement.

We're dedicated to diversity and inclusion at EirGrid. We recognise the strength that comes from having a diverse workforce and the importance of a supportive culture for all our people to achieve their potential. Our diversity and inclusion networks have been designed to create an inclusive culture that enables our people to feel a sense of belonging at work.

As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Reasonable accommodations are offered at every stage of our recruitment process.