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Jacobs Program Manager in Cork, Ireland
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 and we also have fantastic 'family-friendly' policies. 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.
Pharmaceutical and biotechnology products impact all our lives in some way. The projects that we execute deliver lifesaving products to patients globally.
With 50 years of experience as innovators in biopharma facilities, our more than 3,800 skilled architectural, engineering and construction professionals continue to work with our clients to drive innovations in the industry. We provide a single-source of responsibility for all services, from strategy and concept through site selection and evaluation, regulatory compliance, design, constructability, construction management, commissioning, validation and startup. We also provide operations support and asset management services, including plant engineering, maintenance optimization and traditional maintenance and turnaround services.
As the largest professional services provider to the biopharmaceutical industry, clients benefit from both our local presence and global reach. We offer a full range of design and construction services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies worldwide, with a complete focus on providing maximum value for our clients.
About the Opportunity
At Jacobs, we are challenging the accepted and are seeking a Program Manager with experience in Design and Management of Sustaining Capital improvement programs. Responsible for managing a portfolio of projects in the south of Ireland, you will be responsible for project governance ensuring each project is delivered on time and within budget. You will also be responsible for safety and quality adherence.
Jacobs has built up a continuous portfolio of projects for over five years now and we now need a portfolio/program manager who can build on the existing portfolio developing a robust project delivery model, support the project team, provide business development to expand and maintain the program and liaise with the client to support them in their Sustaining Capital program.
You will have a suitable engineering qualification and experience in a client facing role, a knowledge of good project governance and an aptitude for business development.
By joining our team, we’ll harness your expertise as an innovator and business leader to develop strategies to solve our client’s challenging needs. As a Program Manager, you’ll work closely across operations, sales, and technology functions providing leadership as we expand our portfolio.
Other responsibilities will include client-facing delivery in leadership roles to develop implementation strategies for programs, responsible for overall work progress, technical performance and client and stakeholder satisfaction. You’ll be expected to possess highly collaborative and sophisticated communication and problem-solving skills and finesse.
At Jacobs, we’re partnering across the globe to create the best project outcomes by maximizing the design, digital technology, and support capabilities of our Global Integrated Delivery (GID) teammates. By joining Jacobs, you’ll commit to supporting and engaging with these teams.
If you are motivated by a challenge, and enjoy working with a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team to develop innovative solutions, Jacobs is the place for you.
Here’s what you’ll need :
Engineering degree
Professional experience as a Project or Program Manager
Demonstrated experience overseeing and managing large teams of individuals and subcontractors
Experience with managing engineering and/or planning programs and projects.
Demonstrated skills in engineering knowledge, leadership, planning, teamwork, decision making, judgement and problem solving.
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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