Your Impact:
Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow.
Our People & Places Solutions business - reinforces our drive to improve the lives of people everywhere and epitomizes the "why" of what we do – the tremendous positive impact and value our solutions bring to our communities and society. From facilities delivering life-saving therapies and ensuring clean water to enabling the connection of people through all modes of transportation and providing access to technology – we're integrating a multitude of these solution elements to build the smart environments of tomorrow.
At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40+ countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.
People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.
In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.
Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.
About the Opportunity
We are looking for an experienced Structural Engineer to join our busy and exciting Building Structures team, who are currently working on some extremely diverse and challenging projects. Some of our current key projects are for: airports; advanced technology facilities, including giga factories and microchip facilities; residential refurbishment programmes; rail; and energy and power.
As Associate Director/Senior Associate Director you will play a role in providing design leadership and discipline integration of projects delivered by our Cities & Places operating unit. Using technical experience and excellent people skills, you will lead and manage teams of engineers, within the team and on projects.
As a key member of the Buildings structures team, you will play a crucial role in the implementation of the organisational strategy, and in the delivery of technical solutions, balancing commercial, technical, leadership and mentoring responsibilities. You will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of high quality and technically excellent solutions and the seamless sharing of information with other discipline teams, as well as representing Jacobs in liaising with clients, architects and other design team members.
Here’s What You’ll Need:
Chartered Engineer with a relevant professional body (IStructE, ICE or equivalent).
Relevant knowledge and experience in the design, specification and procurement of building structures to relevant standards and regulations.
Ability in the structural design and delivery of projects to a high quality from concept to completion.
Ability to lead, engage and motivate a team of engineers.
An excellent communicator, capable of presenting projects and design solutions to clients, and collaborating with multi-discipline teams to achieve the best results.
Experience and understanding of multi-disciplinary design processes for buildings.
Ability to develop designs to mitigate Health and Safety risks and incorporate sustainable design solutions within projects.
Ability to lead and undertake structural inspections and report on material and construction defects.
Understanding of Information Management and Digital Delivery with the ability to work and deliver solutions within the 3D environment.
Ability to aid the commercial success of projects, including delivery within programme and budget, and effective change control management.
Our Culture
Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs. (https://careers.jacobs.com/life-at-jacobs/)
We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity – ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s – find out more about our employee networks here. (https://www.jacobs.com/about/inclusion-and-diversity?_ga=2.1062705.1096535124.1626879887-1704311048.1575562676)
Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role
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