Senior Associate Director Electrical & jobs at Jacobs in United Kingdom, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Our bodies and environment all depend on water, it is the building block that supports all life. Water issues are becoming increasingly prominent as we struggle with disparity between water availability and demands, water pollution, and competition for limited water resources.

In this role you will be responsible for providing excellent consultancy, design and engineering services in the Northern Australia portfolio - Cairns, Darwin and Townsville – as well as to the wider Jacobs business across Australia and New Zealand. You will collaborate with commercial, project management and technical leaders to create opportunities for Jacobs to plan, develop, deliver and operate a range of projects within the water infrastructure and associated markets. You will manage projects to make sure they are delivered on time, on budget and to client satisfaction.#JacobsWaterANZ

You'll have the opportunity to work on fascinating projects both locally and nationally, offering excellent opportunities for personal and professional growth at every stage of your career.

Our Water and Environment Operating Unit is dedicated to advising clients on sustainable water management through scientific and engineering expertise. We aim to be a global leader, placing water at the core of a sustainable society.

Join over 600 Water Professionals working on high-profile projects and become part of a world-leading company with excellent career prospects. You'll deliver project tasks, designs, and collaborate with clients on water and wastewater infrastructure throughout various project stages, ensuring timely and budget-friendly completion.

In this role you will play a key role in the continued development of our integrated catchment-based solutions team helping Jacobs ensure we become the market leading convenor and integrator in this sector.

As a seasoned practioner in the water industry you will utilise your experience to design and deliver bespoke solutions across the flood risk management and the national environment programme (water resources, environmental quality and nature recovery). You will develop innovative enablers such as appraisal, funding and finance, modelling, optimisation, strategy and digital delivery, creating a strategic and operational vision that unlocks opportunities across the markets.

Remit of the role will include:

• Foster collaboration with and between clients and partners to create pioneering, system-scale and place-based solutions.
• Develop and integrate tools and processes across a wide variety of specialist technical functions.
• Identify and create shared value, through awareness of co-funding, supporting the co-creation of solutions.
• Contribute to project delivery across a wider portfolio of sectors.
• Provide high quality advice as a subject matter expert for a variety of infrastructure projects.
• Take a lead role is bids and proposals.
• Partner with industry to fully understand long term strategies required to ensure our capability footprint and solutions exceed expectations.

These are exciting times to be involved in the water sector with major programmes of work to be delivered across the water and wastewater asset base in the years ahead. The water industry is facing some of the greatest challenges and change required since privatisation to deliver enhanced customer and environmental outcomes and wider socio-economic benefits.

There are opportunities to support the delivery of programmes and projects at various stages in the project lifecycle. Our water projects have sustainability at their core and are outcome driven to protect the environment, reduce flood risk, improve water supplies and add value to our local communities.

Key duties:

• Management and technical supervision of a team of modellers
• Implementation of industry standards and development of innovative solutions.
• Building and verifying network models
• Optioneering and solutions development of flooding and cso drivers
• Using network models for planning, operational and design purposes
• Management of model maintenance, development impact assessments and solutions delivery streams.
• Supervision of report writing, check and review of modelling outputs.
• Experience with infoworks icm, infoasset manager and other modelling software.

Key responsibilities:

• Running modelling and design projects as the leader of a team
• Interacting directly with various personnel in our client’s organisations, including face to face progress meetings.
• Investigation and resolution of network issues.
• Building and maintaining hydraulic models
• Delivery of technical reports and hydraulic modelling studies

As part of this role, you will be responsible for the following:

• Drive technical excellence and ensure safety in design within team deliverables.
• Champion opportunities for automation and process efficiencies in all aspects of our work.
• Lead and mentor a small team of designers on projects.
• Generate bottom-up forecasts of project hours for your team or discipline by project, and escalate any scope changes impacting delivery.
• Coordinate the delivery of Civils highways design solutions within programme and budget constraints.
• Collaborate with discipline leads globally to provide an integrated and best practice service to our clients, challenging the status quo to innovate for the future.
• Line Management: While line management is not required for career progression at Jacobs, opportunities exist for those interested in people leadership to supervise staff locally and become a valued part of our team.

These are exciting times to be involved in the water sector with major programmes of work to be delivered across the water and wastewater asset base in the years ahead. The water industry is facing some of the greatest challenges and change required since privatisation to deliver enhanced customer and environmental outcomes and wider socio-economic benefits.

We are working with partners to help shape the future of asset management, investment planning and delivery. We provide end-to-end technical and asset planning support to help deliver best customer value, manage risk and meet affordability requirements.

There are opportunities to support the delivery of programmes and projects at various stages in the project lifecycle. Our water projects have sustainability at their core and are outcome driven to protect the environment, reduce flood risk, improve water supplies and add value to our local communities.

Key duties;

• Management and technical supervision of a team of modellers
• Implementation of industry standards and development of innovative solutions.
• Building and verifying network models
• Optioneering and solutions development of flooding and cso drivers
• Using network models for planning, operational and design purposes
• Management of model maintenance, development impact assessments and solutions delivery streams.
• Supervision of report writing, check and review of modelling outputs.
• Experience with infoworks icm, infoasset manager and other modelling software.
• Project management experience.

Key responsibilities

• Running modelling and design projects as the leader of a team
• Managing and mentoring of project teams
• Interacting and providing guidance to our overseas based teams
• Interacting directly with various personnel in our client’s organisations, including face to face progress meetings.
• Investigation and resolution of network issues.
• Building and maintaining hydraulic models
• Delivery of technical reports and hydraulic modelling studies