Graduate Programme

GRADUATE PROGRAMME

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Welcome to Barrett Mahony Consulting Engineers

Barrett Mahony Consulting Engineers is an award winning established civil and structural engineering consultancy with a reputation for consistent innovation at the highest level. Originally set up in Dublin in 1994, the practice has since then expanded to three offices in Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe. This growth has been possible because of the quality of the personnel who have joined the company. You are now part of our story – one with a successful track record.

Barrett Mahony encourages excellence and responsibility. Our success has been built on these traits. I am proud that so many of our staff have remained loyal to Barrett Mahony over an extended period. We are focused on creating interesting and challenging opportunities for our staff and rewarding them for their efforts.

Thank you for choosing to be part of the Barrett Mahony Team and I hope you find your new role challenging and rewarding.

Ciarán Kennedy BSc(Hons) StructEng Dip Struct Eng MIStructE MIEI CEng FConsEI Chartered Engineer Managing Director

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Graduate Checklist 06 History Timeline 07 Meet your team 10 Current Projects 11 Important dates for your diary 12 Month 1 Review 13 Month 3 Review 14 Site Visit 15 Project key stage meeting 16 Steps to Chartership 18 Contents

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Graduate check list

We are excited that you have commenced your graduate journey with BMCE! Use the checklist provided to help you keep track of the major steps in the process.

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Sign your Employment Contract if you haven’t already done so and send to HR.

2 Complete your Payroll Paperwork – Employee Details Form

• Send your Transcripts / copies of your Qualifications to HR.

3 Complete QPF03.01 “Staff Induction & CPD Review”.

4 If you are a member of Engineers Ireland or IStructE send you membership number to Human Resources . Alternatively, If you wish to join EI as a graduate member - Barrett Mahony will cover your annual subscription. Please speak with Human Resources.

5 Read the Office Safety Statement and familiarize yourself with the QA system - Manual , Procedures, Work Practice Notes and Forms.

6 If you have a full driver’s license –please submit to HR to be added to the office pool car insurance.

7 If you will be attending site – speak to Reception and order your PPE.

8 Make sure you familiarize yourself with the HR Manual.

9 Speak to HR about joining the social club.

Daily Tasks to remember

10 Login to BM’s intranet via barrettmahony.sharepoint.com/sites/Intranet

11 Sign in to Simple In/Out - https://www.simpleinout.com/en/list

12 Complete your timesheets daily - http://vm-filesvr/Tempusnew/TMNET. DLL/TempusPro

History Timeline

1985

Recession strikes Ireland and the oil price drops in the Middle East leaving ICDS without work, both Vincent and Brian move to London to work in the London office of Irish Consultancy, KML.

1992

Vincent relocates back to the Dublin office of KML and Brian moves back to Dublin in 1992 to work in the newly formed Structural Department of the PM Group.

1990’s

Significant other projects in the late 1990s were AIG HQ on North Wall Quay, the Clarion Quay development, also on the North Wall, and the Microsoft Building in Sandyford.

1994

In April 1994 Vincent Barrett and Brian Mahony decide to set up a Civil & Structural Consultancy Practice – Barrett Mahony Consulting Engineers – and take a lease on the mews at 40 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin.

1982

Vincent Barrett and Brian Mahony were colleagues in ICDS, Dublin, working on large scale Middle Eastern Projects.

Our first client was Hegarty Demolition who was heavily involved in the reconstruction of Temple Bar at that time and our first major job was the Façade retention of Switzers, now Brown Thomas department store.

New recruits in the early days were John Considine, Ciarán Kennedy and Ed Carthy who gave us much needed highly skilled Technical Resources to bid for more ambitious projects.

Our first significant project as Main Consultants was Smithfield Village with Client Heritage Properties. This was an early ‘Celtic Tiger’ project involving the redevelopment of the old Jameson Distillery site in Smithfield Village. The project was also a formative project for Ciarán Kennedy, our current Managing Director, where he acted as Graduate Engineer working in a design office set up on site for the duration of the project.

1998

52-54 with after

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1998

52-54 Lower Sandwith Street was purchased with the Practice moving in Spring 1999 after significant refurbishment works.

2007

In 2007 the chill winds of recession began to be felt and over the next two years many of our Developer Clients were hit by the Banking crisis and some went out of business in the following years.

2016

2016 saw a significant upturn in our workload and marked the stepping back of the founding Directors from frontline management and the appointment of a new Managing Director, Ciarán Kennedy, to the Dublin Office along with another new Director Stephen O’Connor who joined the board alongside existing Board members John Considine, Vincent Barrett and Brian Mahony.

2016 also saw the setting up of our Sofia Office by Rouslan Taskov. Rouslan had worked for Barrett Mahony for many years, firstly for the Dublin Office and then for the London Office and when the time came for him to return home to Bulgaria it made sense to set up the office to take advantage of the availability of the highly skilled graduates available in that country.

2000’s

The early noughties, with the Celtic Tiger in full ﬂight, brought significant growth to the practice and by 2006 we had leased additional space nearby on Pearse St and staff numbers had grown to circa 100.

2009

London Office opened with Vincent Barrett as Managing Director. This was our lifeline during the depths of the recession and the sterling work put in by Vincent saw the London Practice grow to become a significant client of the Dublin Office.

2017 - 2023

The last couple of years have seen rapid growth under Ciarán Kennedy’s management and we now look forward confidently to the 2020s with a “Blue Chip” Client base and exceptionally gifted staff resources numbering circa 70 in Dublin, 20 in London and 10 in Sofia.

Welcome:

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BMCE Start Date:

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Meet your team

WHO IS MY LINE MANAGER

Name: Ciaran O’Raferty

Position: Director

Ciarán joined Barrett Mahony Consulting Engineers as a graduate engineer in 2005, working on a variety of commerical, residential and temporary work projects. In 2008, Ciarán emigrated to Victoria, Australia. While in Australia, Ciarán gained extensive experience in the design and application of post-tensioned concrete floors in building structures. Ciarán returned permanently from Australia in 2017 and rejoined Barrett Mahony as a Senior Engineer, leading a team of design and graduate engineers and technicians on a variety of interesting and challenging structural and civil engineering projects. Ciaran moved in to the role of Director in 2023.

C BARRETT MAHONY COACH SYSTEM

Firstly, what is the BM Coach System?

The coach system is an approach whereby an existing member on your team will help you settle in and assist you in any queries relating to the day to day running of the office. The aim here is to help you fit in more quickly and get to know your team mates.

Name: Derek Halpin

Position: Design Engineer

Derek joined Barrett Mahony Consulting Engineers in 2020. Since joining the Derek has been involved in residential, hospitality and comercial developments.

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Current Projects

Projects your team are currently working on:

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Important Dates for your diary

HR to set up calendar invites

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will be provided on a near daily basis by your Team Members to assist you to develop your engineering skills.

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..... ...... ........ 0 Induction with HR, Line Manager and BM Coach Date Month Item Completed ..... ...... ........ 0 Run through of QA and H&S system with Quality Co-Ordinator ..... ...... ........ 0 Completion of Skills Matrix ..... ...... ........ 0 Review with BM Coach ..... ...... ........ 1 Informal Meeting with BM Coach (generally within 1-2 weeks) ..... ...... ........ 2 Attend a site visit with BM Coach / Team member 2 Month 1 Review Meeting with Line Manager 3 Month 3 Review Meeting with Line Manager ..... ...... ........ 3-6 Attendance at first project key stage meeting ..... ...... ........ 6 Month 6 / Probation Meeting with Line Manager Nov/Dec Interim (Annual) Review with Line Manager Mar/Apr Annual Review with Line Manager ..... ...... ........ Mar/Apr Salary Review with Directors ..... ...... ........ 12-18 Attend BMCE in-house talk - First step to Chartership

Coaching

Interim

held at any frequency as agreed between

Manager and

Member. 3-4 Attend group site visit with BM Coach / Team Member

Reviews can be

the Line

Staff

Date:

Attendees:

Month 1 Review Meeting with Line Manager

(1) Projects involved with:

(2) Any comments:

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Date:

Attendees:

(1) Projects involved with:

(2) Any comments:

Comments from your Line Manager

Month 3 Review Meeting with Line Manager

Date:

Attendees:

Attend group site visit with BM Coach / Team member

(1) Projects visited:

(2) What did you see / learn from the visit:

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Date:

Attendees:

Attendance at first project key stage meeting

(1) Project:

(2) What part of the project were you involved with:

(3) Comments:

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First Steps to Chartership

There are different options of routes to chartership with both Engineers Ireland and the Institute of Structural Engineers.

Please refer to BMCE’s guidance for applying for either at the following link: https://barrettmahony.sharepoint.com/sites/Intranet/SitePages/CPD.aspx

Both chartership routes require engineers to record the projects you have been involved with, and eventually developing a portfolio of projects. You should use the following pages in this document to assist with recording this information.

Both chartership routes also involve recording the development of your engineering knowledge against various criterion (Engineers Ireland) or core objectives (Institute of Structural Engineers). Both are listed in the following pages and it is advised to record instances where you experience involved these aspects. Recording this information as you progress from graduate level should help you when applying for your chartership.