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.
Your responsibilities
- Deliver technical excellence, innovation and safety in design within your project deliverables.
- Look for opportunities for automation and process efficiencies in everything we do.
- Understand the importance of escalating any highways scope changes and the impact on delivery, programme and budget.
- Collaborate with your discipline lead and other project interfaces to produce a quality deliverable and be empowered to challenge today so that we can re-invent tomorrow.
- Technically mentor less experienced staff who may be supporting you to deliver a project.
- Design experience in the built environment and transportation.
- Open and inclusive mind set.
- Technical experience of delivering local and/or major highways projects or the land side alignment elements in adjacent markets such as Water or Aviation.
- Good interpersonal, organisational and communication skills (both written and verbal) and ability to communicate different design options to internal and external stakeholders.
- Thorough understanding of commonly used design standards such as DMRB, MCHW or international equivalents.
- Sound knowledge of UK H&S legislation and a passion for fostering safety and wellbeing.
- Capable of managing a workload which may be subject to change at short notice and raising early warnings.
- Ability to work independently and effectively within a global multi-disciplinary team.
- Attained a relevant professional qualification, for example a degree in engineering, and CEng/ IEng or equivalent qualifications or work experience.
Our Culture
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