Your Impact:

At Jacobs, our Energy Transition team is focused on providing a whole system approach, offering end-to-end service to support our clients in energy networks, thermal generation, renewable generation and storage solutions. We are helping our clients meet the challenges faced in countries and cities across the globe, providing innovative solutions to address the challenges of replacing conventional thermal power plants with renewable generation.

A career at Jacobs means working on some of the world’s most exciting projects, solving complex challenges and undertake meaningful work that benefits our communities and the world.

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.

About the Opportunity

Due to ongoing growth of our Energy & Environment market, we are seeking an Engineering Manager to build and develop technical delivery capability supporting major Low Carbon Fuels & Industrial Decarbonisation projects and programmes for our clients and for Jacobs.

The purpose of these roles is to raise and nurture our technical capabilities and strategically position Jacobs to win and deliver major Low Carbon Fuels & Industrial Decarbonisation projects globally. The role will lead the development of our capabilities growing capacity capacity through our existing talent, strategic recruitment, and the attraction of engineering and design talent to access new markets and geographies.

Our Engineering Managers/Technical Directors are working leaders, executing projects for our clients, nurturing talent, and supporting growth strategies in conjunction with our growth & sales and operational teams. Operating in a Technical Leadership role, you will provide vision and direction to use our collective ability to deliver client solutions that benefit our people and planet. The roles are agile, responding to the needs of the market, and you’ll find yourself in a mixture of client facing and delivery positions, working with a network of senior leaders in:

• Growing our world class technical delivery capability.

• Providing excellent leadership of our team, look after their wellbeing, and enable their growth and development so that we are the employer of choice for Low Carbon Fuels & Industrial Decarbonisation technical professionals.

• Delivering excellent performance for all our clients.

• Leading sustained growth of our business.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. Our core Energy and Power team is based across Jacobs’ offices in London, Birmingham, Reading, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Dublin or Exeter. However, with offices throughout the UK and Ireland, we can be flexible about location and are happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours to suit you and our business.

What can you expect?

We aim higher. Jacobs want to play a leadership role in Global Energy Transition, making a difference and creating a change. We will support your entrepreneurial mindset to help challenge and bring different, innovative approaches to the way we deliver solutions for our clients. Challenging today. Reinventing tomorrow.

One Jacobs. As a Global business addressing energy transition as a united front, you will be encouraged to join our Community of Practice, knowledge sharing across regions to solve the same problems in the most innovative ways.

We’re invested in you and your success. We want to help you to shape a legacy you’re proud of by promoting the opportunity to impart your knowledge and expertise to budding engineers – supporting and leading them as they develop their own successful career paths.

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.

Here’s what you’ll need :

• Significant experience of delivering technical solutions in complex processing plants, e.g., Feasibility, Concept, Pre-FEED, FEED, Owners Engineer, and Systems Integrator.

• Demonstrated ability to develop senior level relationships with clients, and to use these to deliver mutual benefit.

• Strong leadership capability and experience, with the ability to lead, manage, encourage, and inspire diverse groups of people and a wide range of disciplines.

• A strong commitment to sustainable development and embedding this throughout the lifecycle of major programme delivery.

• Strong commercial understanding and demonstrated capability in managing profitability or similar financial performance.

• Substantial experience of major capital projects and programmes in the energy industry with previous experience managing multi-discipline teams through stage gates capital value processes.

• Domain and technical knowledge of low carbon fuels production, liquefaction, storage, export, import & regassification and in carbon capture, utilisation & storage.

• Deep understanding and experience of all aspects of multi-disciple engineering and design delivery from feasibility through detailed engineering and optimisation.

• Proven expertise in client/stakeholder relationship management with professional institutions, academia and leading industry bodies promoting technical excellence.

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)

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