Professional and Technical
Energy Officer
The current salary scale for the position is €57,909 minimum to €80,498 maximum of the scale inclusive of LSI’s.

Annual Salary
Kilkenny
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Job Summary

The post of Energy Officer will be based in the Climate Action Office of Kilkenny County Council, as part of a multi-disciplinary team, and will report to the Climate Action Coordinator and Energy Performance Officer, or other officer designated by the Director of Services or the Chief Executive.

The Energy Officer will be responsible for a range of projects and initiatives to advance the local authority’s commitments on energy efficiency and emission reductions.

This is a challenging and exciting position and requires both a good technical knowledge of climate change and energy management and generation, and a strong project management, organisational, networking, communication and administrative skill set.
The Energy Officer is responsible for the following specific duties:


The requirements and duties of the post of Energy Officer may include the following: (a) such other local authorities or bodies, for which the Chief Executive for the purposes of the Local Government Acts 2001 and 2014, is Chief Executive, and
(b) to any other local authority or body with which an agreement has been made by the local authority or by any of the authorities or bodies mentioned in sub-paragraph of the paragraph below,

Under the direction and supervision of the appropriate professional officer, such engineering services of an advisory, administrative, supervisory or executive nature as may be required by any Local Authority or body hereinbefore mentioned in the exercise and performance of any of its powers, functions and duties including the duty of assisting the Director of Services or other authorised officer, as appropriate, in the supervision of the engineering and cognate services of any of the foregoing local authorities or bodies and, when required to do so, to perform the duty of acting for the appropriate professional officer of higher rank during the absence of such officer of higher rank.

The above specification is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all duties involved and consequently, the post holder may be required to perform other duties as appropriate to the post which may be assigned to him/her from time to time and to contribute to the development of the post while in office.