Continuous Improvement Programme Lead | Ireland

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 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. 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. 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 Di