Assistant Engineer

Description:

An Assistant Engineer is currently the entry grade for the four tiers of engineering posts within Offaly County Council. These range from Assistant Engineer through to Executive, Senior Executive and Senior Engineer grades. Assistant Engineers work as part of a multi-disciplinary team within one of the previously outlined Local Authority Directorates to deliver key local authority services. These include social housing; transportation infrastructure; environmental protection; water, wastewater, & solid waste, recreation and amenity provision and community development. Local Authorities also play a key role in supporting economic development and enterprise promotion at local level.

The Assistant Engineer will from time to time be required to deputise for Executive Engineers or more senior personnel and must be willing to take on this challenge. The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated person, with a strong sense of commitment to delivering quality public services and shall demonstrate a clear knowledge and understanding of:

• Local authority services, its key stakeholders and relationships
• Local government structures and its democratic role and mandate
• Current local government issues, future trends and strategic direction of the sector
• Key policies guiding the local government sector
• Fostering and maintaining wide ranging productive working relationship both internally and externally to the organisation
• Managing and implementing change
• Public Works Contracts
• Public Service values

The ideal candidate should also have a good technical knowledge base and experience of engineering practices to include the following:

• Planning and costing of projects
• Contract administration
• Project management
• Managing Health, Safety and Welfare in the workplace
• Administration and report writing
• Operating ICT systems
• Prioritising of work effectively
• Acting on own initiative
• Dealing effectively with conflicting demands
• Working under pressure to tight deadlines