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Jacobs Principal Wind Engineer 
Australia, Queensland, Brisbane City 
343530900

23.11.2024
Your impact

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead and Assure Quality: Oversee technical outputs by appointing and guiding qualified Technical Leaders for tenders and projects.
  • Develop Technical Framework: Maintain and evolve the framework of Technical Leaders to meet the discipline’s needs.
  • Inclusive Leadership: Implement priorities and goals that promote diversity and inclusion, ensuring effective succession planning and staff mentorship.
  • Shape Technical Practice: Drive the direction of our technical practice with future-focused insights and thought leadership.
  • Sales and Client Engagement: Provide technical leadership in sales, actively engaging with clients and participating in business development.
  • Risk Management: Identify and mitigate technical risks in both sales and project delivery, ensuring adequate controls are in place.
  • Collaborative Excellence: Work with Technical Directors to leverage the best of Jacobs on every project, fostering innovation and excellence.
  • Sustainability Leadership: Align with Jacobs’ sustainability values, providing thought leadership to clients, markets, and staff.
  • Talent Management: drives a culture of learning and teaching and supports hiring
  • Strategy and Growth: Represents Jacobs technical excellence, including lead pursuits and proposals and presentation of papers
  • Connectivity: Connecting Jacobs global network of resources through the leadership of project teams
  • Innovation: Drives innovation through peer reviews, value engineering and sharing industry innovations
  • Project Delivery Excellence: Leads and delivers projects including oversight of projects led by others.
Here's what you'll need
  • Educational Background: Degree and/or postgraduate qualification in a relevant field of study. Membership in a recognised professional institution, preferably at a Fellowship level.
  • Professional Experience: Proven experience in project engineering and delivery of onshore and offshore wind power projects in an engineering or consulting environment.
  • Technical Expertise: Solid experience in power generation projects, particularly renewable projects, with knowledge of utility-scale wind farms.
  • Leadership Skills: Initiative, independence, and strong attention to detail, with a proven track record in design management and project development.
  • Industry Presence: Recognised and valued presence in the discipline/industry at a national or international level.
  • Professional Accreditation: Professional Registration/Accreditation such as Chartered, RPEQ, RPEV (or working towards it).
  • Legislative Knowledge: Familiarity with applicable engineering legislation and standards.

No matter what drives you, you'll discover a way to cultivate, nurture and achieve your goals – all at a single global company.

Please contact the team if you require support or reasonable adjustments regarding our recruitment process (for example, you need the application form in a different format).

Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people from marginalised or underrepresented backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every qualification. At Jacobs, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align with every requirement in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Please note:  If you are being represented by a recruitment agency you will not be considered, to be considered you will need to apply directly to Jacobs.