This year marks a significant milestone for Coffey as we celebrate 25 years of leadership, dedication, and vision from our CEO, Odran Madden.
Odran’s journey with Coffey began as a civil engineering student on placement from the University of Galway. After graduating, he joined as a site engineer. He quickly showed the determination, curiosity and problem-solving approach that would see him take on increasing responsibility across a range of roles. Today, as CEO, he continues to shape our business and inspire the next generation of leaders.
His career is a powerful example of what is possible when talent meets opportunity. It also highlights something fundamental to Coffey’s culture: we don’t just offer jobs, we support careers that grow.
Living Coffey’s Values
Over the past 25 years, Odran has guided Coffey through periods of change and growth, always staying true to the values that define how we work:
- Do the Right Thing – act with integrity and earn trust through every decision
- Do it Better – constantly improve by learning, sharing, and striving for excellence
- Do it Together – succeed through teamwork, collaboration, and shared purpose
These values underpin everything we do, from how we deliver projects to how we develop our people. They remain central to our long-term strategy and to the way we build partnerships with clients and communities.
Leading Coffey’s Growth Journey
Under Odran’s leadership, Coffey has evolved into a company with €140 million in revenue and an ambition to grow to €500 million by 2035. That growth is not just about scale. It is about building deeper expertise across the water, energy, transport and civil engineering sectors, empowering our people and delivering infrastructure that communities can rely on.
Our purpose, Enhancing Communities through Engineering Excellence, reflects the impact we want to have. Our vision is to be the company that clients trust, people choose and communities depend on for projects that deliver real value.
Odran’s commitment to those principles has been central to guiding Coffey through change while ensuring we remain grounded in what matters most: integrity, teamwork and engineering excellence.
Inspiring the Next Generation
As we celebrate this milestone, we also look forward. Odran’s journey from placement student to CEO is not just his story. It shows what is possible for anyone who joins Coffey with ambition, passion and a willingness to learn.
For existing and future recruits, it is proof that a career with Coffey can be one of growth, opportunity, and impact. Your next chapter could start just like his.
To Odran, we say thank you for 25 years of leadership and dedication. And to those considering their future, we say this at Coffey, we are building more than infrastructure; we are building careers.
