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Jacobs Pavement Engineer in Birmingham, United Kingdom
Your Impact:
At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40+ countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.
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.
Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.
About the Opportunity
Jacobs Pavement Engineering function has an excellent opportunity for a Pavement Engineer to provide professional services to our clients including pavement design, construction and asset management. You will impart knowledge to ongoing projects and support the production of bids. You will also assist in technical elements of pavement design, assessment, inspection and surveying including data assessment and analysis. In this role you’ll have opportunities to support highway and port pavement designs and maintenance schemes in the UK and around the world.
Your base location will be Birmingham Jacobs UK offices, but we also operate a hybrid working model. Work life balance is a key area of focus for Jacobs and we are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, including part time and flexible working patterns. There will be a requirement to travel to our clients from time to time.
Here’s What You’ll Need:
BEng Civil Engineering (or equivalent qualification)
Demonstrable experience in pavement engineering with knowledge of current and emerging pavement technology
Understanding of pavement deterioration processes and mitigation measures
Experience in planning and implementation of condition surveys and structural assessments
Experience in design, specification, supervision of repair and upgrading of pavements
Experience with pavement assessment software (examples – ELMOD, BISAR, AASHTO ME)
If you do not meet every requirement of the job and/or your experience doesn’t align perfectly with the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be the right candidate for this role, or for other roles within Jacobs. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace - our success depends on having a diverse team of visionaries, thinkers and doers, who collaborate to harness all perspectives to make a positive impact.
Our Intelligent Asset Management & Assurance team is a friendly, diverse and supportive team, working with clients to help them realise value from their assets. Working at all levels of client organisations across multiple sectors and industries; we act as a critical friend providing strategic thinking and practical, resilient and assured solutions that deliver whole life value. By combining traditional consultancy skills with data driven solutions we increase our clients understanding of their asset base, helping them to work smarter and realise tangible benefits.
Our Culture
Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business, and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs. (https://careers.jacobs.com/life-at-jacobs/)
We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity – ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s – find out more about our employee networks here. (https://www.jacobs.com/about/inclusion-and-diversity?_ga=2.79163356.998477581.1662989570-943506700.1630923864)
Jacobs partners with VERCIDA (http://www.vercida.co.uk/) to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role
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Please note that in order to be considered for this position you need to be resident in, or willing to relocate to, the country this position is advertised in, and a. have a current right to work visa in that country, or b. be prepared to go through a work visa process if the hiring manager/business unit is willing to accommodate this.
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