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Jacobs Highways Technical Lead / Team Leader UK Wide 
United Kingdom, England, Bristol 
315636570

17.08.2024
Your impact

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. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Responsibilities:

  • Proactively driving technical excellence and safety in design within team deliverables.
  • Championing opportunities for automation and process efficiencies in everything we do.
  • On projects, lead and mentor a small team of designers.
  • Generate bottom-up forecasts of project hours for your team or discipline by project. Understand the importance of escalating any scope changes and the impact on delivery.
  • Coordinate the delivery of Civils highways design solutions to programme and budget.
  • Collaborate with discipline leads globally to provide an integrated and best practice service to our clients and be empowered to challenge today so that we can re-invent tomorrow.
  • Line Management. You do not need to line manage to progress at Jacobs. You can pursue our Technologist Career Path and work towards becoming a subject matter expert. However, if People Leadership is of interest, there may be the option to supervise other staff locally and become a valued part of one of our family trees.
Here's what you'll need
  • Experience in managing engineering design solutions in 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 and communication skills (both written and verbal) and ability to communicate different design options to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Ability to lead small project teams effectively and support their technical development.
  • Thorough understanding of commonly used design standards such as DMRB 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
  • Ability to work independently and effectively within a global multi-disciplinary team.
  • Experience of the financial management and control of projects.
  • Attained a relevant professional qualification, for example a degree in engineering /CEng/ IEng or equivalent qualifications or work experience.

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