Permanent position available with a considerable portfolio of works for the next 5+ years
To build your career by assisting in the delivery of ‘leading edge’ engineering projects.
To work with a vibrant, agile and multi-functional team in delivering projects on time, safely, to budget and to the required quality standards.
To benefit from Kirby’s Career Development Programmes that will enhance your leadership capability.
To work with the best.
Excellent package on offer with room for negotiations
About Kirby Group Engineering
Kirby Group Engineering is an international multi-disciplinary engineering services contractor and leading provider of high-value engineering services to a number of ‘blue chip’ companies. Operating across Ireland, the UK, Europe and South Africa, Kirby has become the engineering service provider of choice in growth segments such as pharmaceuticals, data centres and power transmission and distribution. Our culture is innovative, collaborative and performance focused. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to grow and develop in a company committed to developing talent and rewarding performance.
Role Profile – CI Programme Lead
Title: CI Programme Lead
Reporting to: Performance Associate Director
Location: Limerick / Dublin / Galway
Role Purpose:
Kirby Group Engineering & Construction is looking for a motivated, structured and experienced CI Programme Lead to join our dynamic team. The CI Programme Lead will own the governance and coordination of Kirby’s continuous improvement portfolio, ensuring initiatives are clearly defined, prioritised, controlled and measured.
Core Responsibilities:
Own the continuous improvement programme framework
Develop and maintain Kirby’s standard initiative delivery framework, governance model, templates and reporting requirements.
Ensure initiatives have a clear problem statement, scope, objectives, sponsor, business owner, initiative lead, milestones and measurable benefits.
Apply a consistent lifecycle from identification and approval through pilot, implementation, embedding and business-as-usual handover.
Promote practical, proportionate governance that supports delivery without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
Manage the continuous improvement portfolio (including Kirby AI initiatives)
Maintain a central view of strategic and operational improvement initiatives across the business.
Coordinate portfolio reviews and governance meetings, ensuring decisions, actions, risks, issues and dependencies are clearly recorded and owned.
Support senior leadership in prioritising initiatives and identifying resource constraints or competing business demands.
Challenge stalled or poorly defined initiatives and coordinate recovery actions where agreed outcomes are at risk.
Maintain a coordinated portfolio of AI opportunities, pilots and implementation initiatives across Kirby.
Work with business leaders, initiative owners and Digital/IT to define the business problem, intended outcome, ownership, governance and success measures for each initiative.
Track the operational value, adoption, risks and lessons arising from initiatives and share learning across the business.
Lead executive and Board reporting
Prepare concise portfolio updates for the COO, Executive Team and Board covering progress, milestone performance, risks, decisions required and next steps.
Develop and maintain clear KPIs, RAG criteria and dashboards that provide leadership with reliable visibility of initiative performance.
Report by exception, focusing on outcomes, exposure, dependencies, required intervention and accountability rather than activity alone.
Ensure reporting information is consistent, evidence-based and supported by clear owners and target dates.
Measure benefits realisation and programme value
Support business owners to define intended financial, operational, programme, risk, quality and productivity benefits at the outset of each initiative.
Establish proportionate baselines, benefit…