Regional Facilities Technical Lead

We are Uisce Éireann. Every day, we are responsible for the delivery of secure, safe, and sustainable water services for the people of Ireland. As Ireland’s national regulated water utility, our vision is a sustainable Ireland where water is respected and protected, for the planet and all the lives it supports.

Our purpose at Uisce Éireann is to rise to the challenge of delivering transformative water services that enable communities to thrive. That means we are proud to take on the responsibility of protecting our water supply and passing on a safe and secure water system to a rapidly growing population and empowering Ireland’s social and economic growth.

So, we’re passionate about helping our people to do the best work of their lives, to enable them to make a positive difference to communities all over Ireland. Our aim is to attract and develop talented and skilled people with diverse backgrounds and an evolving range of expertise and insight. We believe that such a strong workforce will help us achieve our goals and allow us to continue investing in, and advancing, Ireland’s water services.

The Role: 

The Facilities & Fleet Functional area is responsible for obtaining and maintaining Uisce Éireann's headquarters and Regional offices, including activities such as: security, property management, spatial planning, capital projects and building management. The function has the responsibility of delivering a highly effective Facilities Management Service for Uisce Éireann, this involves reviewing and implementing solutions to meet the current and future property and maintenance needs of the business, safeguarding the security of all Uisce Éireann’s facilities and locations and the management of the company’s complex fleet.

The Facilities Operations team oversee and manage the provision of all Facilities Management Services for UÉ Premises nationally including Reception & Post Services, Spatial Planning, Cleaning, Waste, Energy, Catering, Stationary, Archiving, Employee Welfare and Building Maintenance. 

They build strong relationships with BU managers with the aim of optimising cooperation and maximising efficiencies across UÉ, ensuring that regular meetings with Senior Managers are held to discuss their Facilities and Space requirements. The team drives the delivery of all operational activities planned, corrective, reactive and emergencies associated with the assigned properties, taking responsibility for their safe completion on time, within scope and within budget and manage the set-up and integration of new properties and assets from the Capital Projects team into Facilities Operations.

Reporting to the National Facilities Operations Manager, the Facilities Operations Lead is a key member of the Facilities Operations Team and will be responsible for the delivery of facilities management services and the life safety programme upgrades at a national level for all Operational Sites (water/wastewater plants etc.) for UÉ. This role will be flexible as the team and portfolio expands its services throughout the region.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage the mobilisation FM services on new Operational sites, and ongoing management of existing Operational sites.Support strategic relationships and meetings with Stakeholders to ensure successful FM delivery

• Promote a strong customer service culture and ensure that a high quality, responsive and effective service is provided to all customers

• Be aware of and support the management of third-party contracts and resources to deliver FM services e.g. FM, cleaning and catering

• Support the authorisation and management of all commercial aspects of contracts including, issuing POs and approving invoices

• Participate in business continuity, crisis management and disaster recovery planning

• Promote and encourage sustainability, energy and environmental management

• Support the Facilities Team (as required) on strategically important projects as part of UÉT (Uisce Éireann Transformation project) such as Offices, National Stores and Depots, Laboratories etc. as part of the transformation of the water services industry in Ireland over the coming years.

• Manage the delivery of all operational activities planned, corrective, reactive and emergencies associated with the assigned properties, taking responsibility for their safe completion on time, within scope and within budget.

• Manage the day-to-day facilities issues and act as an escalation point, taking ownership of problems seeing them through to resolution.

• Carry out audits of the UÉ FM delivery partner in the areas of Health & Safety, KPI’s, adherence to UÉ policies, work order management etc.

• Develop and maintain strategic relationships and attend meetings with Stakeholders to ensure successful FM delivery. Promote a strong customer service culture and ensure that a high quality, responsive and effective service is provided to all customers.

• Liaise with the Regional Operational teams in UÉ to ensure that FM services in the region are appropriate to meet the demands of the business.

• Liaise with Local Authority Staff (e.g. Senior Engineers, Plant Managers etc.) as required.

• Ensure delivery of FM services within annual operational budgets and identify and manage any risks to budgets ensuring necessary approvals.

• Ensure statutory compliance and the reporting of non-compliance to line manager.

• Manage and direct third-party contracts and resources to deliver FM services. 

• Manage and authorise all commercial aspects of contracts including, issuing PO’s and approving invoices.

• Support and participate in Business Continuity, Crisis Management and disaster recovery planning.

• Promote and encourage Sustainability, Energy and Environmental policies.

• Manage the set-up and mobilisation of new properties and assets from the Facilities Capital Projects and Property team into Facilities Operations. Also, support the Capital Projects team on the ongoing capital upgrades of buildings and system replacements.

• Manage FM in line with UÉ (HSQE) Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental requirements. Liaise with HSQE on risk assessments, audits, incident investigations etc. Ensure work is carried out in compliance with statutory and legislative requirements in respect of Health and safety, the environment, building and workplace regulations. Ensure Safe Systems of Work are issued and adhered to for all activities. Support Work Safe Home Safe.

• Raise risks and issues as appropriate to the National Facilities Operations Manager.

• Other duties as maybe assigned from time to time

• The role requires flexibility to extend working hours, work across regions as required addressing needs and the possibility of being a member of the on-call rota.

General Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaboration with key internal stakeholders across the UÉ business.

• Responsible for promoting and delivering health and safety commitments across UÉ and its supply chain, reinforcing positive behaviours and delivering health and safety objectives and requirements to the highest industry standards. 

• Support the delivery of the Uisce Éireann Transformation Programme, driving results required within the Directorate and supporting organisation-wide objectives.

• Provide visible leadership for your team, coaching and developing them to achieve their full potential and deliver business objectives, promoting collaboration and highlighting the behaviours that are expected from everyone in the team.

• Conducts duties and responsibilities in accordance with Uisce Éireann’s Information Security policies, standards, processes and controls to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of UÉ business information and delivery of critical services, in accordance with the NIS Directive and any other relevant cybersecurity regulation

   

• Other duties as required.

   

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Relevant third level qualification and or accreditation is desirable 

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in the water, utilities or similar industries is desirable and or relevant experience

• Ability to develop and maintain effective strategic partnerships with key stakeholders internally and externally 

• Proven track record with dealing with complex issues, proactively and in a timely fashion along with the ability to communicate complex information to others

• Highly motivated individual, working to the highest professional standards and with proven ability to deliver results

• Strong analytical skills and ability to identify and analyse problems and potential improvements, and propose and implement solutions

• Demonstrate adaptability and the ability to change focus and direction in line with business strategy and requirements

• Proactively identifying new areas of improvement and using newly gained knowledge and skill on the job

The closing date for receipt of applications for this vacancy is 08/06/2026.

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

*Please be advised that if successful you will be placed on the salary range based on your skills and experience. Please note the Market reference point (midpoint) of the range is generally the upper end of the offer where someone is deemed to be fully competent to take on the duties of the role, and leaves room for the employee to progress through the pay range as their experience develops further.

Uisce Éireann 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.