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 programs, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships.
At Jacobs, Design Managers are critical to the successful delivery of a coordinated, fit-for-purpose design. Our Design Managers:
- Are responsible for multi-disciplinary design delivery to achieve project quality, cost and programme needs
- Ensure a coordinated, collaborative and efficient delivery through facilitation and direction of the multi-disciplinary design team
- Engage collaboratively with clients to understand requirements and deliver solutions.
- Often also engage in contractor-facing roles to provide technical or other delivery assurance on behalf of our clients
- Bring a combination of technical, project management and coordination skills to the project
We’ll need you to be an excellent communicator with well-rounded people skills as you will manage diverse teams with different and often competing goals, enabling them to work together to produce coordinated and high-quality designs. You’ll also have excellent client management skills with the ability to present your ideas clearly and effectively, evaluate the ideas of others, and communicate progress, potential issues and proposed mitigation.
- This role is available on a hybrid-working basis from one of our offices in London, Manchester or Birmingham
- Full time employment with Jacobs is 40 hours per week _ work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs and so we’re happy to discuss part-time and flexible working hours / patterns to suit you and our business
- Your ability to secure SC level security clearance would be advantageous
