My client, Ireland’s leading multi-disciplinary Construction Contractor is recruiting for a Bid Manager/Work Winning Engineering Lead to work with their Energy and Industry team. This role can be based out of their office in Dublin or Newry.
Their business is well-known for its extensive in-house expertise, experience, and continuous drive to innovate within the industry to create added value for all their customers. Throughout their history they have strived to challenge the norm and incorporate a wide range of new technologies and capabilities to ensure they meet the ever-changing markets and demands. Today they support groundbreaking transmission and distribution projects in four countries - ensuring their energy security for decades to come.
They offer a wide range of services including design, construction and commissioning. They deliver Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) projects serving both regulated and private customers along with technical and engineering solutions within the conventional power and energy transition markets. Their continual drive to innovate, while encouraging sustainability, ensures they remain at the forefront of the industry, and is demonstrated in their long-standing relationships with major energy providers in multiple countries.
Their Work Winning Engineering Lead will provide senior technical leadership to the Work Winning and Pre‑Construction team across Energy and Industry projects, ensuring high‑quality, compliant and competitive tenders and robust project input through handover. The role will integrate design input, construction methodology, risk and opportunity management to improve win rates and assure safe, efficient delivery.
Role:
- Lead the engineering strategy for bids: define technical approach, construction methodology, programme sequence, and temporary works strategy.
- Own the technical compliance matrix, produce method statements, technical submissions, and delivery stage plans (e.g., constructability reviews, sequencing, access and logistics).
- Challenge solutions to optimise safety, quality, sustainability, and whole‑life cost
- Drive value engineering.
- Identify and manage risks and opportunities
- Engineering inputs to cost and programme
- Lead technical presentations and site visits
- Ensure bids meet relevant standards, codes and regulatory requirements
- Assist design development post‑award through a structured technical handover to delivery teams; support mobilisation and early works as required.
- Promote digital engineering and information management and accurate document control throughout the bid lifecycle.
- Coach and develop engineers within the work winning function; share lessons learned and maintain a library of best‑practice method statements and case studies.
Requirements:
- Minimum 10 years’ site/project experience in civil engineering and/or power sector delivery, including significant time in construction on live projects.
- Proven preconstruction/tendering experience for major projects
- Track record of developing construction methodologies, build ability reviews, temporary works strategies, and technical submissions that win work.
- Strong grasp of contracts and procurement in the sector (e.g., NEC, FIDIC) and of estimating/programming interfaces (P6/MS Project, CESMM/BoQ).
- Excellent knowledge of Ireland standards, design codes and safety by design (CDM) principles; able to author technical and HSEQ documentation.
Salary
- Salary €80k-€120k DOE
- 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays with the option to buy an additional 2 days holiday each year, holidays increase with length of service
- Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review
- Above market rate contributory pension scheme
- Life assurance, health screening and enhanced sick pay
- Generous Private Healthcare Allowance
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and a maternity returners bonus
- Extra 2 days holiday for all employees getting married and a wedding bonus
- Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development
- Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts, discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme etc