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.
These are exciting times to be involved in the water sector with major programmes of work to be delivered across the water and wastewater asset base in the years ahead. The water industry is facing some of the greatest challenges and change required since privatisation to deliver enhanced customer and environmental outcomes and wider socio-economic benefits.
We are working with partners to help shape the future of asset management, investment planning and delivery. We provide end-to-end technical and asset planning support to help deliver best customer value, manage risk and meet affordability requirements.
There are opportunities to support the delivery of programmes and projects at various stages in the project lifecycle. Our water projects have sustainability at their core and are outcome driven to protect the environment, reduce flood risk, improve water supplies and add value to our local communities.
Key Duties:
- Utilising existing relationships and build new relationships with clients to win work from and provide a sustainable workstream for the team.
- Working with the Water Technical Leadership Team, to demonstrate leadership, management, motivation and development of staff to improve their performance and achieve their potential, including clear succession planning.
- Providing High-quality Water Technical services, demonstrating continuous improvement.
- Contributing to the growth of the business through identifying, developing and delivering new workstreams and services.
- Working collaboratively with colleagues in the Technical and Operations divisions.
- Driving innovation and efficiency across the Water Technical teams.
- Supporting in business planning, financial control, commercial and risk management.
- Contributing to the growth of the team delivering Water Technical project work and securing future frameworks and projects.
- Delivering project profit targets through robust technical delivery.
- Ensure that the team is meeting utilisation targets.
- Creating High Performing Teams through a culture of enthusiasm and engagement and strong people management skills.
- The health, safety and wellbeing of our staff through a strong safety culture.
- Managing the team from both the HR and project delivery perspectives.
- Identify resource requirements and recruit a varied range of technical staff to enable the efficient delivery.
- Be a visible part of Jacobs, raising our profile through conference presentations and papers.
Key Responsibilities
- Management of all health and safety, quality and resourcing aspects of projects.
- Technical development and delivery of wastewater catchment strategies and solutions (including hydraulic modelling and analysis, model use studies, optioneering and cost-benefit analysis studies, to time, budget and the quality).
- Proven experience of solutions development and construability.
- Ensuring quality of outputs and compliance with standards, specifications and governance requirements.
- Responsible for and reporting of technical performance, forecasting and risk management
- Continuous improvement of tools, procedures and processes to drive efficiency and innovation
- Production of bids and proposals.
- Travelling to client offices may be required
- Line Management of project team members with responsibility for: day-to-day leadership and direction for team, workload planning, driving staff performance, and career development.
- Working with other regional wastewater networks discipline leads.
- The candidate should be a highly motivated, competent and analytical person with track record in overseeing a network modelling team, delivering network analysis, model updates and solutions development.
- An excellent team player that works well on own initiative and possesses excellent communication skills. The successful candidate will have experience in the management and development of the team and provide technical leadership in an urban drainage environment with an excellent client focus.
- Chartered or nearing Chartered status.
- Experience in Integrated Catchment Modelling.
- Working knowledge of contract types and procurement options.
- Ensuring project financial and schedule performance.
- Experience of supporting tendering procedures and putting together proposals.Demonstrable track record of technical delivery and client satisfaction within the water industry.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
- Positive outlook and approachable manner.
- Capable of building and maintaining strong relationships with internal staff and external clients.
- Ability to be flexible and to be able to multi-task and prioritise when necessary.
- Self-motivated, able to work as part of a team or on individual assignments when required.
- Ability to complete assignments on time, within budget and to a high technical standard.
Our Culture
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