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Jacobs Planning Engineer in Bridgwater, 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
Nuclear Power Programmes are delivering client critical works to some of our major UK and European Projects. Our embedded teams are delivering support to Hinkley Point C (New build power station in the South West), Sizewell C (located in the South East), helping develop technologies in SMR (Small modular Reactor) capability and working towards building Poland's first Nuclear Power station.
The Planning Engineer is working in the Nuclear Sills Alliance (NSA) under the direction and leadership of a Programme Manager, to establish, develop and maintain Project schedules / plans for numerous training development & delivery programmes at HPC. To support EDF Energy in making informed decisions to support the efficient and timely delivery of work scope.
Role Responsibilities:
Support the NSA Programme Manager in the implementation and maintenance of Integrated Project Controls processes for Planning, including the production of monthly reports, through the provision of intelligent information and analysis.
Collaborate with others to help deliver Project goals in keeping with the HPC principles of Trust, Transparency and Teamwork.
Maintain an awareness of schedule interfaces with other Programmes and their potential impact
Produce and maintain the schedule baseline IWS in Primavera 6 (P6), with fully logic-linked work plans aligned to the Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and utilising approved construction techniques.
Ensure the Level 2 IWS is updated to an agreed timeframe for monthly reporting.
Ensure the HPC Level 3 schedules are updated when required to reflect work progress and performance, to an agreed timeframe defined by the Central Controls Team.
Ensure that contractor schedules are produced in accordance with HPC processes and ensure that they align to the IWS forecast position.
Maintain daily and weekly work planning in 4D model.
Provide quality checks on the Scheduling data.
Identify, analyse and provide solutions to time-related issues.
Co-ordinate and produce schedule reports to a defined reporting cycle.
Assist in the Trend & Change process, including analysis of schedule impact, generating performance indicators and providing feedback on areas of risk and opportunities.
Adhere to Project governance and Scheduling standards and procedures.
Ensure all Project documents, in particular Sensitive Nuclear Information, are correctly protectively marked, and protected in accordance with EDF policies and procedures.
Here’s what you’ll need :
Detailed understanding of scheduling methodologies and techniques
Technical and practical comprehension of engineering, procurement and construction methods and techniques in a UK context.
Ability to produce accurate, complete and fully logic-linked construction plans.
Good working knowledge of P6.
High level of analytical and numerical skills.
Good attention to detail.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
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)
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