Principal Ecologist jobs at Jacobs in Ireland, Dublin

You’ll be based in Dublin or the surrounding area, with the flexibility to work from home and the expectation to be in the office or on client sites at least two days per week.

As Senior or Principal Drainage Engineer, you’ll play a key role in supporting the Drainage Discipline Lead in delivering drainage design services across all stages of project development. You’ll work closely with colleagues in Ireland, the UK, and globally to ensure technical excellence and seamless coordination. You’ll also help develop junior engineers and contribute to the continuous improvement of our drainage capability.

You will be joining the Aviation, Rail and Technology Group within our Electrical & Lighting Design Team. With teams across the UK this role would be based in our Birmingham, London, Manchester, or Leeds offices, whilst offering flexible working.

In this role, you will be responsible for the following key duties:

• Technical lead on electrical & lighting projects; responsible for the preparation of lighting and electrical designs at feasibility, optioneering, planning and detailed design stages;
• Programme and cost monitoring;
• Preparation of technical reports, feasibility studies, designs, specifications and contract documents;
• Conducting detailed daytime and night-time surveys;
• Supporting the production of Environmental Impact Assessment reports, Economic Assessment reports and Business Cases;
• Liaison with clients, electricity suppliers, contractors, professional organisations, sub-consultants and other design teams.

As abased inyou’ll join a collaborative team providing wastewater treatment services for our client and the city of Baton Rouge. Under supervision, you will perform a variety of tasks associated with learning the associated responsibilities of a certified wastewater operator – in preparation for receiving an entry-level certification.

Essential Functions:

• Operates valves and gates either manually or by remote control, starts and stops pumps, engines and generators, by-pass pumps to control and adjust flow and treatment processes
• Collects process samples as assigned; enter information into chain of custody and utilizes sample tracking tool for all samples collected
• Performs process control sampling and analyses
• Maintains records for daily operations of facilities in daily log and on daily plant check sheets
• Completes tasks detailed on daily check sheets. Observes general operating conditions, and reports issues immediately to supervisor
• Performs other duties as required
• Cleans vehicles, heavy equipment, bar screens, comminutors, weirs, digesters, pumps, tools, and other stationary and portable equipment
• Performs routine inspection of vehicles and equipment; preventive and corrective maintenance tasks as assigned and assist maintenance staff with larger corrective maintenance tasks as assigned
• Fluent with writing work orders, entering work order data and completing work orders in maintenance management system. Uses Maintenance Management system to accurately reflect/record daily maintenance activities
• Maintain good housekeeping on plant grounds and inside buildings

As a key member of our team, you will support our transition to a solutions provider, transforming how we deliver through the implementation of new technologies and lean, digital processes, to increase efficiency and add value for our clients. With a focus on sustainability and decarbonisation, you will utilise your highly developed technical engineering, interpersonal and organisational skills in supporting the delivery of structural solutions on highways, rail, aviation, energy and power projects.

We are looking to establish and build a Bridges and Structures capability in Ireland. You will support the growth of our business in Ireland, both in terms of setting up a Bridges and Structures team, increasing the size of our Bridges and Structures team and contributing to the growth of our workload pipeline. Often in a client facing role, you will be responsible for project delivery on a range of bridge and structural related projects:

• Lead and mentor teams on tasks such as structural analysis, feasibility studies, tender designs, detailed designs and the production of contract documents and technical reports.
• Use your knowledge and skills in to lead a team and other disciplines in providing an integrated service to clients
• Proactively identifying and implementing innovative solutions through leveraging data, automation, lean and standardization to improve efficiency/productivity and project outcomes.
• Project delivery excellence, commercial or technical, or both depending on role (i.e. delivery to time, budget and quality)
• Work with our UK, Ireland and Global Integrated Delivery teams to best use our resources and ensure efficient and successful delivery.

We currently have opportunities within our Transportation teams in Dublin and Cork for you to make your mark and influence the continuing growth of Jacobs as part of the delivery team. Some of our recent nationally and regionally significant projects in Ireland include :

• Foynes to Limerick Road
• M28 Cork to Ringaskiddy,
• Dublin BusConnects – Core Bus Corridor Infrastructure Works and Cork BusConnects,
• N2 Clontribret to BorderN2
• Irish Rail AfA
• Translink C1113 and C1127
• Station Accessibility A6 Bridges
• DART Depot