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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, 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:

At Jacobs, our people are the most important resource. We’re looking for a highly skilled Senior Operations Director to oversee our Sellafield and National Operations accounts by bringing the best of both and having the foresight to deliver the massive opportunities that exist in both areas. This is a strategic appointment and the successful applicant will manage a number of Operations Directors in supporting frameworks and projects with overall P&L responsibility to meet agreed forecasts, take accountability for cross project re-deployment activities and links into the wider CMSI organisation by delivering the EAS Strategy both Nationally and Locally continuing the exciting growth opportunities that exist and maximising Horizontal Integration.

Key responsibilities of the role:

• Ensuring that all our personnel work in a safe and secure environment, ensuring that suitable and sufficient functional support is available to the team;

• Integrate and manage the existing Sellafield and National Operations teams;

• Accountable for the generation of Quarterly Forecasts and the monthly P&L to meet agreed targets;

• Support in maintaining updated SQEP activities;

• Interfacing with and building client relationships across the new area;

• Ensure that Commercial governance and where required recovery takes place;

• Ensuring that business processes and governance takes place at every point;

• As part of the EAS Senior Leadership Team ensure that messaging is open and clear, and a no surprise culture exists; Promoting internal personnel development and ensure that vertical integration takes place.

Here’s what you’ll need :

• Experience of leading operational teams at a senior level to deliver an agreed strategy;

• Experience in Business Leadership positions including P&L accountability;

• The ability to think and act Strategically is crucial to ensure that continued managed growth is achieved, while managing operational audits and develop improvement plans;

• Experience in sales & senior stakeholder management is essential;

• Experience in managing operation teams delivering a significant Digital Transformation;

• Exceptional HR & IR Capability is crucial;

• Implementation of corporate processes are critical;

• Ability to engage and develop strong relationships with senior managers and stakeholders through strong management and communications 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/)

Strategically 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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