Jacobs Jobs

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:

To deliver a portfolio of change activity that relates to the Business Strategy for Enterprise Asset Solutions.

Establish strong relationships across the organization to ensure successful delivery of these changes in a fully collaborative way.

Collaborate with the leadership team and senior resources to ensure that operational change is defined and delivered to strategic direction and the needs of the Business.

Work with the leadership team and senior resources to establish the impact of change to the business, prepare the business to accept and implement the change and support the business to utilize change once delivered.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Undertakes specific change assignments to support delivery of Transformation;

• Takes overall responsibility for implementation of the business change aspect of plans, focusing on requirements and planning to meet business and client needs;

• Improves knowledge of the business change principles and methodologies, both current and emerging;

• Interface with other areas of Jacobs, sharing business knowledge and expertise and resolving issues as necessary and assumes responsibility for decision making within own area of expertise that will have a significant medium to long term effect on Enterprise Asset Solutions;

• Works effectively with stakeholders (at all levels), securing their involvement, confidence, and co-operation in executing assignments, generating their buy-in and ownership;

• Delivers contribution to business performance by managing the change aspect of projects according to business priorities;

• Provides expert support, as required, ensuring prompt and accurate resolution of problems;

• Carry out research to assimilate necessary knowledge in business change and provides mentoring to colleagues, transferring skills and expertise.

Here’s what you’ll need :

• Proven track record in delivering major transformational activity, process re-engineering, change management to agreed business specifications to meet customer requirements;

• Excellent interpersonal skills, communication (written, oral, presentation), risk and issue management, stakeholder management, influencing skills;

• Trained in structured process development and project management methodologies e.g. LEAN, PRINCE 2, APM;

• Experience of successful change initiation and delivery in a business environment;

• Exposure to Virtual and Global Shared Service Operating Models;

• Able to work with ambiguity, conflicting priorities and maintain the perseverance required to deliver;

• Attention to detail / Concern for quality / Ability to multitask / Assertive / Customer focused.

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

If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team (https://www.jacobs.com/contact/careers2) .

Your application experience is important to us and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. We welcome feedback on our recruitment process and if you need more from us before deciding to join Jacobs then please let us know. (https://www.jacobs.com/contact/careers2)

Jacobs is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, medical condition, marital or domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression and transgender status, mental disability or physical disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, citizenship, low-income status or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law. Learn more about your rights under Federal EEO laws and supplemental language.