Jobs at Jacobs in United Kingdom, Birmingham

Responsibilities

As an integral member of our team, you will hone your skills in backend and frontend technologies to support aircraft specific solutions and integrate with flight hardware. Successful candidates will:

• Contribute on a team of skilled engineers designing, building and maintaining thoroughly tested and stable software using a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE).
• Perform technical tasks to include design-requirements, documentation, code and unit/integration test procedures.
• Maintain a collaborative approach with Product Owners, Software Architects, DevOps, Security and UX engineers.
• Be willing to share knowledge through proactive creation of wikis and documentation to help the team.
• Participate in daily stand-ups providing status updates and raise any technical issues with the rest of the team.
• Contribute to pull request reviews, system demos, planning meetings and retrospectives.
• Be able to switch and work on different projects as customer and program goals evolve.
• Ask smart questions, take risks, and champion new ideas
• Use judgment and originality by interpreting data; planning the work; and refining the methods and techniques being used

Playing a key part in our Water Catchment Management & Maritime capability team in the in the UK, You will be involved in the Technical delivery of a wide scope of Geological and Hydro Geological Projects. As part of a project focussed multi disciplined team you will also provide functional expertise to water resource management and environmental impact assessments.

In this newly created role your remit will include:

upporting excavation dewatering projects, tunnelling projects and assessments for large scale infrastructure projects

coping, supervising and interpretation of ground investigations to support engineering design

Producing and Interpreting groundwater reports to support underground structures design, groundwater management and hydro-geomechanical behaviour assessment.

Promoting the consideration of engineering hydrogeology to foster innovative project solutions.

Liaison with contractors, laboratories and regulators.

The role will include:

• Designing ecology monitoring programmes - develop survey programmes, lead and/or manage survey teams and be responsible for high quality data collection.
• Using your experience in botany - to provide expert advice to clients (internal and external).
• Leveraging your experience of national legislation - to support Environmental Impact Assessment and Habitats Regulation Appraisals etc.
• Acting as a Health and Safety champion – contributing to the development and review of risk assessments and method statements.
• A willingness to both learn from and mentor others – develop and share skills that build team and individual resilience. This will include engagement with our global communities of practice, externally facing communications (conferences, presentations, client meetings) and training events.
• Travel across the UK and Ireland to undertake site work – you will need a willingness to work in remote locations and, at times, stay away from home during the working week.

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.

You will be responsible for project delivery and undertake the role of technical/discipline lead 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 standardisation to improve efficiency/productivity and project outcomes.
• Work with our UK and Global Integrated Delivery teams to best use our resources and ensure efficient and successful delivery.

Typical job duties:

• Analyze survey data, construction drawings, maps, and legal documents.
• Prepare, review and QC documents for easement acquisition.
• Review and QC survey basemaps from other survey vendors.
• Coordinate with survey vendors for survey staking and basemap requests from client.
• Coordinate LiDAR flights and data transfer between client and survey vendor.
• Travel to various locations throughout Northern and Central California for project job walks, site meetings, and vendor safety observations.
• Attend job walks with the survey vendors’ field crews and observe their work to ensure safety procedures follow local, state and federal regulations, and safety guidelines.
• Meet demanding project deadlines.
• Collaborate within a multi-discipline team and communicate with clients, subconsultants, site supervisors and contractors.
• Adhere to company policies and service line procedures.
• Follow safety protocols and present safety messages when called upon during meetings.
• Attend and participate in scoping sessions and project meetings while representing Jacobs with a professional and courteous image at all times.
• Preserve and enhance the Jacobs brand through job knowledge and strategic project management.
• Complete daily time sheets, data logs, expense reports and project updates in a timely manner
• Complete all mandatory and on-going applicable training sessions as required internally and by the client.

We'll also ask that you are:

• Proficient in AutoCAD Civil 3D, Google Earth, Microsoft Outlook, Word and Teams.
• Knowledgeable and experienced working with the Public Land Survey System (PLSS).
• Working knowledge and experience in boundary principles, topo surveys, reading title reports, writing and plotting legal descriptions.
• Capable of multi-tasking and prioritizing heavy workloads.
• Flexible with workstream, job tasks, and demonstrate a willingness to help client with whatever is needed.
• A self-starter who is resourceful, works independently, and adaptable to working in a fast-paced team setting.
• Able and willing to travel and work in variable weather conditions and challenging terrain.
• Meticulous and pay close attention to detail.
• Capable and efficient working without immediate supervision; make technical and procedural decisions for assigned projects within specified limits of authority.
• Plan and prioritize daily activities to meet productivity goals.
• Communicate and share information with the vendors, project managers, land acquisition team, construction managers, land agents, survey vendors and other office staff about all aspects of the project.