Professional and Technical

Electrical Projects Manager

€60,858 - €84,596

Annual Salary

Cork

Job Summary

The Road Management Office, (Cork County Council) is seeking applications from suitably qualified candidates with relevant experience for the position of Electrical Projects Manager (analogous to Executive Engineer).

The successful candidate(s) will be assigned to the Road Management Office, RMO a national shared service as an Electrical Projects Manager.

It is proposed to form a panel of qualified candidates from which any vacancies permanent or temporary which arise will be filled during the lifetime of the panel.

The Electrical Projects Manager will report directly to the Lead Engineer Systems and Development, RMO or such person as may be assigned from time to time by Cork County Council. Electrical Projects Manager will be responsible for the management and delivery of annual work programmes in the assigned role.

Road Management Office (RMO):
The Road Management Office (RMO) is a Local Government shared service established in 2014 by the County and City Management Association (CCMA) under the aegis of the Department of Transport (DoT). It is operated by Donegal and Cork County Councils, with Donegal as the “nominated local authority” under the 2001 Local Government Act.

Vision and Mission Statement for the RMO in its statement of strategy 2025-2030 is:
Empowering local government with data driven evidence-based solutions for efficient and sustainable road asset management, while promoting consistency and collaboration with national stakeholders.

Through mandated development and implementation of knowledge based systems and procedures, we provide road authorities and sectoral stakeholders with cost effective, high quality services that support implementation of government strategy, their obligations, goals and objectives.

The RMO delivers consistent, data-driven and policy-aligned essential services in the areas of road asset management, roadworks licensing and public lighting to a wide range of stakeholders, including all Local Authorities, the Department of Transport (DoT), Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), the National Transport Authority (NTA) and all major utilities.

DUTIES:
The person/s appointed will work as part of a team under the direction and control of the Lead Engineer Systems and Development, RMO or other officer designated by the Director of Roads or the Chief Executive. The duties for the post of Electrical Projects Manager may include but are not limited to the following:

1. Developing an understanding of current Local Authority public lighting practice and developing best practice in public lighting;

2. Developing and implementing solutions for legacy public lighting issues for example earthing, cabling, unbundling of public lighting and distribution circuits;

3. Providing support to local authorities and other RMO staff in implementing relevant national, international and industry standards for public lighting and associated infrastructure;

4. Development and implementation of documented national processes to support:
I. Asset Management Principles for Public Lighting;
II. Energy Efficiency of Public Lighting;
III. Rationalisation of the Public Lighting network in conjunction with authorities;
IV. Implementation of national processes and solutions for works involving ESB;
V. Consistency between government policy and public lighting standards and processes;
VI. Carbon reduction and cost savings for authorities;
VII. Local authority communication with the public and elected members;

5. Systemising processes through the development of software requirements and assisting in the project management of software vendors;

6. Providing support to Responsible Managers, Live Working Managers working with Public Lighting on ESBN assets;

7. Development of template maintenance contracts and capital projects for lighting;

8. Development of consistent processes for taking in charge of public lighting assets not installed by local authorities including specifications for public lighting installed by developers and others;

9. Providing support to authorities in collating and gathering data and analysis of it;

10. Necessary travelling within Ireland to local authority and stakeholder meetings, site visits, training sessions, conferences, regional workshops etc. as required to deliver the service.

The above specification is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all duties involved and consequently, the post holder may be required to perform other duties as appropriate to the post which may be assigned to him/her from time to time and to contribute to the development of the post while in office.

Further Information and Role Specification are available on Cork County Council's Website