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Technical Author 091

594573 Posted: 21/11/2025 12:28:44
  • Negotiable
  • Dublin, Republic of Ireland
  • Contract

The Technical Author M400 Lead will be responsible for overseeing and providing comprehensive leadership of Technical Authors across the directorate team. The role holder will ensure strategic alignment and execution of NEC scope, specification, information and requirements throughout the procurement process from inception to award for NEC and suite of contract documents. The role holder is responsible for ensuring the development, coordination and consistency of NEC information documents across nominated NEC contracts for MetroLink. The role holder will lead a team of technical authors to support a standardised approach and alignment with EU Procurement Directives and Irish National Regulations and laws, across the business by maintaining oversight of nominated NEC and suite of contract documents and enhancing engagement with subject matter experts.

Principal Accountabilities
  • Act as first point of contact for all M400 technical authoring matters related to MetroLink Directorate's needs.
  • Lead and develop scope documents by driving the creation of unambiguous, specific, and concise business requirement documents for nominated NEC and suite of contract documents, ensuring they are aligned with NEC forms, EU Procurement Directives and Irish National Regulations and laws, and eliminate the need for interpretation, thus reducing risk of disputes.
  • Strategically collaborate with subject matter experts to incorporate specialist requirements into the nominated NEC and suite of contract documents, ensuring clarity and relevance to the procurement package.
  • Conduct high-level reviews and strategic challenges to align documents with commercial strategies, driving value for money (VfM), and eliminating discrepancies and inconsistencies.
  • Oversee the monitoring and reporting of progress to track and forecast document delivery, report on performance, escalate issues as necessary, and support the continual improvement of document processes in line with MetroLink values and EU Procurement Directives and Irish National Regulations.
  • Lead strategic post-contract support by maintaining and updating scope documents, managing complex changes, conducting audits and ensuring alignment with governance and best practices.
  • Lead tasks with transparency, communicating timescales to the Technical Author team to ensure contractual time constraints are met.
  • Identify training and development processes for procurement personnel in conjunction with Learning & Development.
  • Cooperate with MetroLink colleagues in all matters relating to health and safety, always following safe working procedures.
  • Support the Commercial Director in producing Commercial Directorate reports.
  • Participate in any progress meetings to discuss documents development plans and progress.
  • Act as a role model for MetroLink's vision and values, behaving in ways that align with MetroLink Ways of Working, and encouraging and supporting others to do the same.
  • Take necessary action to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of corporate information, preventing unauthorised disclosure, modification, or destruction, and never knowingly putting MetroLink information or information systems at risk.
  • Perform additional tasks, activities or other duties as may be required or assigned as part of the role.

Experience, Skills and Qualifications
Experience
  • >10 years' experience in procurement or delivery of Civils, Infrastructure, Railway Systems and other supporting contracts and projects, and articulating clearly the component parts of structures and systems, as well as the supporting services that are required to deliver an asset in a programme environment.
  • Experience within procurement and contract management functions in a range of construction, engineering and service-oriented areas.
  • Extensive experience of procuring/delivering large value complex programmes, or projects within a programme, in the Government, or an arm's length body environment using public funding.
  • High level experience of sponsor / stakeholder relationship and management experience.
  • Advanced experience of management of aspects of NEC3 or NEC4 contracts, and to be able to identify the purpose of the Conditions of Contract, Contract Data 1 & 2, Scope, Site Information and the key features of the contracts.
  • Experience in a matrix environment, with high influencing and communication skills.
Skills
  • Ability to analyse contractual documentation and apply strategic Commercial thinking.
  • Understanding and knowledge of the relevant supply markets and effective application of value for money strategies and solutions.
  • Dealing with commercial agreements and legal awareness of contract risks, including experience of drafting complex and bespoke contract terms and commercial principles including supplies, services and framework agreement.
  • Ability to expertly compile tender and commercial documents, ensuring constant alignment with MetroLinks goals.
  • Experience building effective collaborative relationships to understand requirements, facilitate others' understanding and to ensure the requirements can be discussed and met as closely as possible.
  • Exceptional problem-solving abilities, and implement strategic efficiencies, solutions and improvements.
  • Extensive knowledge of Procurement processes and Legal framework and governance.
  • Extensive knowledge of EU Procurement Directives and Irish National Regulations and laws.
  • Extensive knowledge of EU Regulation 2016 (S.I. 286/2016).
Chris Caulfeild-Browne Lead Consultant

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