Designer Group

Engineering contractor delivering energy, data centres.

Electrical Preconstruction Lead

Electrical EngineeringPosted on Nov 12

Full-timeDublin, IrelandNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

Electrical construction management, project management, or senior engineering experience.
Strong knowledge of electrical distribution, containment, testing, commissioning, and the supply chain.
Ability to challenge design, sequence work, and lead technical client discussions.
Construction-mindedness and willingness to work hands-on with technical content.
Ability to communicate clearly and credibly in meetings and presentations.
Ability to stay organised, work to deadlines, and prioritise across multiple bids.
Ability to collaborate while challenging incomplete information and unsupported assumptions.
Commitment to safety, quality, ethical conduct, document control, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

Develop the electrical construction strategy, sequence, and package approach.
Review electrical design maturity, constructability, maintainability, and commissioning requirements.
Lead electrical value engineering, design for manufacture and assembly, and redesign exercises with cost and programme inputs.
Coordinate equipment selections, technical submittals, energisation strategy, and temporary power.
Review cable, containment, and distribution sizing, discrimination inputs, and system interfaces.
Engage electrical suppliers and subcontractors to assess lead times, methodology, and capacity.
Develop electrical procurement, design, and commissioning requirements with the planner.
Manage and review the work of electrical engineers assigned to bids.
Present electrical strategy at client meetings and technical reviews.
Support client-facing bid meetings, workshops, and presentations.
Work collaboratively with Estimation, Bid Coordination, Engineering, Building Information Modelling, Procurement, Commissioning, Quality, Environment, Health and Safety, and Operations.
Identify and record design, delivery, programme, procurement, and interface risks.
Support a controlled handover of the tender basis, commitments, and residual risks to Operations.
Travel internationally where required and work flexibly around tender deadlines, subject to company policy.
Produce complete, accurate, and professionally presented technical tender returnables.
Capture assumptions, risks, opportunities, interfaces, and actions in controlled registers.
Develop practical delivery proposals aligned with the price, programme, and procurement strategy.
Contribute in a timely manner to client reviews, bid adjudication, and formal handover.
Obtain approval through the applicable delegated authority for material commitments affecting price, scope, programme, contract terms, or resources.
Complete design work within competence and obtain review or approval from the appropriately qualified design authority where required.
Issue bid deliverables on time and to the agreed quality standard.
Identify risks and commitments early, assign them, and transfer them at handover.
Contribute practical value-engineering, design-for-manufacture-and-assembly, programme, procurement, or constructability improvements.
Use agreed templates, registers, stage gates, and lessons learned consistently.

Electrical Preconstruction Lead

Designer Group · Dublin, Ireland · — · Posted 2026-11-12

Workplace: on_site

Department: Support

Description

Role Purpose

Acts as the electrical construction and project-delivery lead during bids. Converts tender information into a buildable electrical solution, coordinates technical returnables and manages electrical engineering support.

Key working relationships

Internal: Estimation, Bid Coordination, Business Development, Marketing, Engineering, BIM, Procurement, Commissioning, Quality, EHS, Commercial and Operations. External: clients, consultants, designers, suppliers, subcontractors and specialist partners.

Principal responsibilities

Develop the electrical construction strategy, sequence and package approach.
Review electrical design maturity, constructability, maintainability and commissioning requirements.
Lead electrical VE, DfMA and redesign exercises with cost and programme inputs.
Coordinate equipment selections, technical submittals, energisation strategy and temporary power.
Review cable, containment and distribution sizing, discrimination inputs and system interfaces.
Engage electrical suppliers and subcontractors to test lead times, methodology and capacity.
Develop electrical procurement, design and commissioning requirements with the planner.
Manage and review the work of electrical engineers assigned to bids.
Present electrical strategy at client meetings and technical reviews.
Support client-facing bid meetings, workshops and presentations.
Work collaboratively with Estimation, Bid Coordination, Engineering, BIM, Procurement, Commissioning, Quality, EHS and Operations.
Identify and record design, delivery, programme, procurement and interface risks.
Support a controlled handover of the tender basis, commitments and residual risks to Operations.
Travel internationally where required and work flexibly around tender deadlines, subject to company policy.

Key deliverables

Complete, accurate and professionally presented technical tender returnables.
Clear assumptions, risks, opportunities, interfaces and actions captured in controlled registers.
Practical delivery proposals aligned with the price, programme and procurement strategy.
Timely contribution to client reviews, bid adjudication and formal handover.

Authority and boundaries

The postholder may coordinate technical development, engage stakeholders and recommend solutions within the agreed bid strategy. Material commitments affecting price, scope, programme, contract terms or resources require approval through the applicable delegated authority. Design work must be completed within competence and, where required, reviewed or approved by the appropriately qualified design authority.

Review and success measures

Bid deliverables issued on time and to the agreed quality standard.
Risks and commitments identified early, assigned and transferred at handover.
Positive feedback from clients and internal bid and delivery stakeholders.
Evidence of practical VE, DfMA, programme, procurement or constructability improvement.
Consistent use of agreed templates, registers, stage gates and lessons learned.

General

This job specification describes the principal purpose and responsibilities of the role. It is not exhaustive and may be reasonably adjusted as the Pre-Construction function grows, following appropriate review and approval.

Requirements

Experience and capability

Electrical construction management, project management or senior engineering experience.
Strong knowledge of electrical distribution, containment, testing, commissioning and supply chain
Ability to challenge design, sequence work and lead technical client discussions.

Behavioral profile

Construction-minded and willing to work hands-on with technical content.
Clear, credible and forward-facing in meetings and presentations.
Organised, comfortable with deadlines and able to prioritise across multiple bids.
Collaborative but prepared to challenge incomplete information and unsupported assumptions.
Committed to safety, quality, ethical conduct, document control and continuous improvement.

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About the Company

Designer Group

Engineering contractor delivering energy, data centres.

Designer Group is an Irish-owned engineering contractor that carries out large-scale projects in energy and industrial sectors, data centres, and building services. It manages end-to-end delivery—from planning and design to construction and handover—focused on safety, schedule adherence, and staying within budget. The company works across Ireland, the UK, Europe, Africa, and North America, partnering with global leaders to build mission-critical infrastructure and sustainable building systems using turnkey solutions and modular delivery. Its teams are experienced, accountable, and take ownership to deliver reliably at every stage. More than 80% of work comes from repeat clients, reflecting long-standing relationships and a focus on consistency and risk management. Designer Group aims to provide projects that perform without compromise, with clear execution, measurable outcomes, and confidence for clients throughout the process.

Company size: 501-1,000
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Dublin, Ireland
Founded: 1992

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