Project Engineer

About Astatine:

Astatine Limited is a specialised energy company, founded by a highly experienced management team with proven entrepreneurial, commercial, and technical success in their respective careers to date. Astatine develop, design, construct, operate, fund (if required) and maintain multi-technology assets to enable an acceleration toward zero carbon for energy users across multiple sectors.  The key values of our company are collaboration, innovation, urgency, integrity, and excellence. The primary technology used in our projects are solar PV, battery energy storage and heat pumps. This is a huge growth area forecast for the next 20 years, and the successful candidate will have the opportunity to upskill in these technologies, their applications and design considerations.

Astatine are continually striving to achieve a high-performance, interdependent, and learning culture and to embrace our company values in our work. We have an external mentor and performance coach who assists us with the development of our culture and offers 1:1 coaching session/s to our staff who wish to avail of it.  We also organise regular culture development workshops which have been a great success.

Our clients are large energy users in the following sectors: Pharma, Cement, Dairy/Agribusiness, Distillery, Food & Beverage.

Job Title: Project Engineer

• Location: Ireland
• Salary: €
• Benefits:  22 Days Leave; Death in Service Benefit (after probation); Profit Share Scheme (after probation)
• Start Date: ASAP
• Contract Type: Full Time Contract
• Working Hours: Full time – Mon to Friday (Hybrid model 3 days in the office)
• Location: Hybrid working model – Work from Astatine’s offices located in Guinness Enterprise Centre, Dublin 8 when required, or from client sites as and when required, otherwise work remotely/from home. Option of working from our Dingle office also.

Job Summary:

• Responsible for planning, designing and executing engineering projects from conception to completion. This role involves coordinating with cross-functional teams, ensuring adherence to timelines and budgets, and maintaining compliance with safety and quality standards. The Project Engineer also manages project documentation, conducts risk assessments and implements solutions to technical challenges. Act as a mentor to junior engineers.

• Key Responsibilities:
  • Identify and mitigate project risks.
  • Define project objectives, scope, deliverables and milestones.
  • Maintaining in-depth knowledge and understating of technologies and solutions offered by the company.
  • Assist and support in building solid relationships with clients, suppliers and contractors.
  • Maintaining good relationships with internal and external stakeholders
  • Implementing best practice engineering methods
  • Providing technical guidance and support to engineering staff and senior management
  • Develop and assist in the identification, analysis, design, costing/budgets, project management and ongoing optimisation of energy projects/technologies.
  • Liaise with technology suppliers and manufactures and contractors to design bespoke energy solutions for client sites.
  • Perform energy engineering evaluations and proficient energy analysis using appropriate analytical tools.
  • Liaise with clients, suppliers, partners, etc on business development, project development and project delivery.
  • Research and keep up to date with latest emerging technologies, product offerings, market developments, etc. in energy sector.
  • Prepare expert written project reports and proposals.
  • Solar farm design incl layout, mounting system, strings, AC and DC wiring, inverter and transformer specification, grid connection.
  • Develop and maintain a detailed knowledge of Irish permitting system.
  • Site visits.
  • Preparation of design documentation using of CAD tools such as PVCase, AutoCAD, BIM etc
• Relevant Experience:
  • 5+ years experience an advantage
  • Superb quantitative analysis and problem-solving skills incorporating strong analytical skills 
  • Strong Experience in Microsoft Office applications particularly Excel and AutoCAD/BIM applications. 
  • Excellent communication, negotiation, problem solving and decision-making skills. 
  • Proven self-starter and self-motivated 
  • Ability to work as part of a team and to manage workload and prioritise. 
  • Valid Full Driver’s License
  • A keen desire to help deliver decarbonisation and the renewable energy transition.
  • Strong Analytical and technical problem-solving.
• Qualification:
  • Bachelor’s degree in an electrical engineering related discipline
• Apply:
• Interested candidates to submit CV and covering letter through the “Apply Now” section on our Careers page.
• Cover letter/email should briefly describe a little about yourself and why you would like to work with Astatine and should also indicate the earliest start date you are available.