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Jacobs Highways Senior Engineer UK Wide 
United Kingdom, England, Manchester 
597960911

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.

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.
Here's what you'll need
  • 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.

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