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Jacobs Structural Engineer, Team Leader (Building Services), Birmingham 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:
The Jacobs Cities & Places team create thriving places - from regions to cities, neighbourhoods to individual buildings and all through an integrated design approach. We have a tremendous opportunity in front of us to build upon our strengths and develop an interdisciplinary planning, design and delivery practice that is uniquely Jacobs, that sets the direction for the industry and is home to the very best and brightest design thinkers, disruptors, technical experts, visionaries and storytellers.
Our business unit brings together engineers, architects, surveyors, urban designers, project managers and transport planners to provide collaborative and coordinated value design solutions for our clients, both nationally and internationally.
We are looking for a Regional Leader to join our busy and exciting Building Structures team who are currently working on some extremely diverse and challenging projects. Our exciting key clients include Heathrow Airport, London Underground, National Grid and various advanced technology organisations including pharmaceutical laboratories, giga factories and microchip manufacturers. You’d need to be based on a hybrid basis in our central Birmingham office.
You will play a pivotal role in providing design leadership and discipline integration of projects delivered by our Cities & Places business unit. Using technical experience and excellent people skills, you will manage projects and guide / mentor a team of Structural Engineers to produce designs and associated deliverables for projects. The role will provide a client facing opportunity for projects and ensure that Jacobs maintains the highest technical standards, levels of service and quality.
As a member of the Building Structures design team, you will play a crucial role in the delivery of technical solutions, balancing commercial, technical, and mentoring responsibilities. You will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of high quality, technically excellent solutions and the seamless sharing of information with other discipline teams, as well as representing Jacobs in liaising with clients, architects and other design team members.
Here’s what you’ll need :
You are a Chartered Civil or Structural Engineer with a relevant professional body
Knowledge and experience in the design and specification of Large and complex UK building structures to relevant standards and regulations
Adept at leading and mentoring less experienced Engineers within a project
Familiarity with the use of structural analysis and design software – an understanding of Information Management and Digital Delivery with the ability to work and deliver solutions within a 3D environment
Ability to undertake structural inspections and report on material and construction defects
Experience and understanding of multi-disciplinary design processes and an ability to liaise directly with clients, architects and other design team members - consider and incorporate sustainability and eliminate health and safety risks within the design
Contribution to the commercial success of projects, including delivery within programme and budget and effective change control management
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=2.1062705.1096535124.1626879887-1704311048.1575562676)
Jacobs partners with VERCIDA 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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