Mechanical Coordinator – €35m Wastewater Treatment Upgrade

We are seeking a Mechanical & Electrical Coordinator with a strong mechanical background to play a key role on a major €35 million wastewater treatment plant expansion within a live biopharmaceutical facility in Co Cork.

This is a mechanically driven scope involving complex utilities, wastewater treatment equipment, mechanical skids, pumps, and process pipework.

The role offers a minimum of two years’ work on a flagship project for a high-value client, with responsibility for coordinating a team of approximately 60 trades personnel while ensuring safe, compliant, and high-quality delivery in a GMP environment.

Your new company are a respected engineering contractor with a long-standing reputation for delivering complex mechanical packages across pharmaceutical, industrial, and advanced manufacturing projects.

They specialise in mechanical installations, utilities, and process systems within live, regulated environments, and value both hands-on experience and formal qualifications. Whether you’ve come up through the tools or are degree educated, this is a company where technical competence, leadership, and practical site knowledge are recognised and rewarded.

For those eager to learn more about this exciting opportunity, please do not hesitate to reach out to Stephen at stephen@breaghrecruitment.com / 015314345

Mechanical & Electrical Coordinator Skills:

• Strong mechanical background, experience with pipework, pumps, utilities, wastewater systems, or industrial process equipment.
• Proven ability to coordinate mechanical and electrical activities on industrial or pharma projects.
• Able to lead, motivate, and manage large teams of tradesmen on a busy site.
• Experience working in live, regulated, or GMP environments is highly desirable.
• Suitable for candidates who have come up through the tools or hold a relevant mechanical qualification or engineering degree.
• Mechanical trade qualification and/or mechanical engineering degree preferred.
• Strong understanding of P&IDs, M&E drawings, utilities systems, and commissioning processes.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills.

As a Mechanical & Electrical Coordinator:

• Lead and coordinate all mechanical and electrical installation works on a large utilities and wastewater upgrade project.
• Manage daily planning, sequencing, and workface coordination across a workforce of 60 tradespeople.
• Review drawings, resolve clashes, support planning of tie-ins, and maintain strict adherence to specifications.
• Oversee a mechanical-heavy package including pumps, pipework, skids, wastewater treatment equipment, and utilities connections.
• Drive mechanical installation quality, ensuring compliance with GMP, QA/QC requirements, and industry standards.
• Support mechanical testing, commissioning, and collaboration with process and validation teams.
• Deliver work within a fully operational GMP facility without disrupting production.
• Manage shutdowns, isolations, tie-ins, and high-risk mechanical activities with strong planning and communication.
• Maintain strict cleanliness, contamination control, and documentation standards expected in a pharma environment.
• Maintain redlines, installation records, and turnover documentation to GMP expectations.
• Support the creation and review of method statements, permits, ITPs, and risk assessments.
• Ensure compliance with environmental, safety, and quality protocols across all work fronts.

The Package:

Salary will be DOE, but you can expect a salary of at least €75,000 plus package to include company vehicle, pension, bonus & more.

Interviews are taking place this week so if you are interested in this role, click ‘apply now’ to forward an up-to-date CV to stephen@breaghrecruitment.com or call us now on 00353(0)15314345.

The Breagh Team:

Breagh Recruitment are the go-to specialist construction and engineering recruitment consultants, providing qualified and experienced professionals with Construction jobs across the UK and Ireland, with an ethos based on flexibility, hard work, and a bit of good old common sense. We live within these core values servicing our clients and candidates daily.

Key roles we recruit for include Health & Safety managers, M&E project managers, construction managers, M&E site engineers, M&E quantity surveyors, civil engineers, site agents, estimators, buyers, bid managers and M&E site supervisors, across Ireland and the UK.

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