Senior Design Engineer - Ireland - Gas Networks Ireland

Description

Gas Networks Ireland operates and maintains Ireland's €2.7bn, 14,664km national gas network, which is considered one of the safest and most modern renewables-ready gas networks in the world.

Over 720,000 Irish homes and businesses trust Ireland's gas network to provide efficient and reliable energy to meet their heating, cooking, manufacturing and transport needs.

The gas network is the cornerstone of Ireland's energy system, securely supplying more than 30% of Ireland's total energy, including 40% of all heating and almost 50% of the country's electricity generation.

By working to replace natural gas with renewable gases, such as biomethane and green hydrogen, and complementing intermittent renewable electricity, Gas Networks Ireland is supporting Ireland's journey to a cleaner energy future.

Gas Networks Ireland is now seeking to appoint a Senior Design Engineer who will manage and complete designs for refurbishment or new builds for compressor fleet on the Transmission network.

The Role:

The Asset Delivery function within Gas Networks Ireland is responsible for the end to end planning, designing and delivery of GNI's portfolio of asset development programmes. Encompassing the three pillars of Project Delivery Management, Design Delivery and Project Services; the Asset Delivery function brings together all the technical and project support capabilities needed to take high-level projects and programmes from the Portfolio Office and translate these through from detailed design and project planning, to construction delivery and handover to Asset Operations.

Reporting to the Design Delivery Lead-Compression & Renewable Gas (Tx/Dx), the Senior Design Engineer for Compressors will have responsibility for the detailed design of capital projects - new build compressors (renewable gases and electric drive compressors) refurbishment, upgrades including reactive operational works that require design input. The Senior Design Engineer will manage the mechanical design of the compressors i.e. design that supports gas turbines such as suction and discharge pipework, coolers, filters, metering, control and instrumentation. The successful candidate will have the ability to lead a team, to effectively diagnose technical issues and have knowledge of gas related process design. The Senior Design Engineer Compressors will work closely with other Senior Designers to ensure alignment of design process, procedures, methodology to ensure consistency of design across the gas network.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Designer of projects from first principles, ability to complete design calculations in relation to gas standards, hazardous area calculations, utilise external engineering design support services and technical specialists to deliver design aspects of capital or operational projects.
• Designer for compressor projects including developing specifications for material procurement. Where the design is outsourced, appraise and provide comment on the outsourced design and review residual design risks for sign off.
• Support the design process to drive an outsourced hybrid design model to flex design capacity to meet compressor station design timelines.
• Provide technical design expertise to project engineers who manage the planning and construction of compressor projects.
• Develop specifications for materials for tender documents, provide technical input to the procurement process, tender clarifications with vendors and set out design requirements for contract documents.
• Conduct review of drawings or reports for compressor station design, alignment of drawings to internal asset management system and field drawings.
• Manage and attend factory acceptance testing or site acceptance testing for materials for the compressor fleet (travel to UK or Europe).
• Manage the HAZID or HAZOP process for compressor design, which requires site attendance for the compressor fleet in Scotland.
• Support the continuous improvement of the design process tailoring material enquiry process to implement hybrid design process.
• Ensure all design documentation is fully and accurately completed, develop appropriate procedures to ensure compliance with regulatory controls, where required. Provide technical documentation to Design Category Specialists to support internal approvals and procurement process of materials and engineering frameworks.
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of internal operational processes and procedures including ISO: 9000 in the Design environment.
• Drive sustainability within the design process e.g. materials, drainage, emissions reductions in the design process.
• Manage the control and instrumentation design for non-complex Electrical, Control and Instrumentation scope and coordinate with E,C&I designers on complex E,C&I design elements.
• Comply with appropriate controls for environmental, planning or other statutory conditions, mitigations as part of any consenting process.
• Ensure a robust process is in place in terms of design documentation for each programme or project from a design delivery perspective.
• Performing other duties as assigned from time to time.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• 5 years' where feasible post-graduation experience in an Engineering role is desirable.
• Relevant experience in natural gas, process industry or utilities is preferred, however candidates who can demonstrate proven technical competence will be considered.
• Experience of working within teams and across virtual teams to deliver on shared goals and objectives.
• Knowledge of the engineering design process and an understanding of process safety in the application of designs.
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills and the ability to influence, advocate and persuade.
• Capable of applying judgment and decision-making capabilities to achieve common goals.
• Ability to set up ongoing procedures to collect and review information as needed.
• Proactive in identifying new areas of learning and using newly gained knowledge and skill on the job.
• Experience with identifying improvement opportunities, generating ideas and implementing solutions.
• Have a working knowledge of H&S standards and risk management systems e.g. Design Risk Assessment, ability to identify hazards and eliminate same in the design process.
• Knowledge of relevant Gas Standards, Codes of Practice and Statutory Requirements is desirable.

Applications, including current Curriculum Vitae, should be emailed to the following address stating the job title and reference number in the subject line of your email:

The closing date for receipt of applications for this vacancy is the

Monday 18 th March 2024

Please note that applications submitted after this closing date will not be accepted.

Gas Networks Ireland is an equal opportunities employer
We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive place of work and have a robust strategy and framework called ibelong to enable this. We are an equal opportunity employer and through our recruitment process we welcome and encourage applications from interested and suitably qualified individuals regardless of gender, age, racial or ethnic origin, membership of the traveller community, religion or beliefs, family or civil status, sexual orientation/gender identity or disability.