About this role
Regional Lead Engineer Location: Leopardstown, Dublin Salary: €70,000–€75,000 per annum Contract: Full Time, Permanent Are you an experienced Electrical Engineer ready to take the lead across a regional portfolio? Sodexo is looking for a Regional Lead Engineer to oversee electrical maintenance, compliance and technical service delivery across our sites in Ireland. This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified electrician with strong technical expertise and leadership experience to drive safety, reliability and operational excellence, while coordinating site engineering teams and specialist contractors across a varied facilities management environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate electrical maintenance activities across the region, ensuring safe, reliable and compliant operation of electrical infrastructure.
- Oversee planned preventative maintenance (PPM), reactive maintenance, statutory inspections and remedial works.
- Provide technical guidance and leadership to site engineering teams, electricians and specialist contractors.
- Ensure compliance with Irish electrical legislation, National Rules for Electrical Installations and relevant health and safety requirements.
- Review risk assessments, method statements and contractor documentation, ensuring all works comply with safe systems of work.
- Coordinate contractors, permits to work and specialist maintenance activities, including planned shutdowns where required.
- Monitor maintenance performance, ensure accurate records and certifications are maintained, and deliver against agreed KPIs and contractual requirements.
- Support asset management, fault-finding, root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Identify opportunities to improve electrical safety, operational resilience, energy performance and service quality.
- Build strong relationships with clients and stakeholders, providing technical advice and ensuring a customer-focused service.
- Participate in the on-call rota and support out-of-hours works where required.
- What We’re Looking For A qualified electrician holding the Irish Level 6 Advanced Certificate in Craft – Electrical (QQI 6M20886 / 6N20887), or an overseas electrical qualification formally recognised as comparable in Ireland.
- At least five years’ relevant experience in commercial, industrial, critical-environment or facilities electrical maintenance.
- Strong knowledge of electrical distribution, switchgear, lighting, small power, Building Management Systems and associated building services.
- Experience coordinating maintenance programmes, PPM schedules, remedial actions and specialist contractors.
- Good working knowledge of Irish electrical legislation, statutory compliance and electrical safe systems of work.
- Experience using CAFM systems and maintaining accurate maintenance and compliance records.
- A full, valid driving licence for Ireland and willingness to travel regionally.