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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

Jacobs acts as the Technical Advisor to PEJ Sp z.o.o. (PEJ), which is the state-owned entity responsible for delivering Poland’s nuclear power programme. Jacobs role is that of an “Owner’s Engineer”, which is not involved directly in any Nuclear Power Programme (NPP) design or construction activity, but rather acts as an advocate for the Client, applying technical due diligence to all aspects of the process, along with supply chain and contract management support for plant and equipment vendors engaged by the Client.

Jacobs fulfils this function through the delivery of engineering and technical packages of work (referred to as Service Authorisations (SA)) which require the development, approval, implementation and reporting of a diverse range of engineering and technical methods by suitably qualified and experienced team members.

In addition to the PEJ programme, Jacobs has positioned themselves as a key advisor to other developers emerging within the Poland Nuclear Power Programme.

The role is to support the NPP Operations Team to manage the development and delivery of Resource Plans across the Polish Programme within the Nuclear Power Programmes Business. The role will require the applicant to implement strategies and solutions to support growth and meet the business plan objectives. The Service Manager will engage with the wider NPP team and the project leadership team to ensure all NPP resource business requirements are understood correctly and properly, to deliver high-standard services.

• Provide professional service management process to ensure projects run smoothly, with minimum downtime on resources to be deployed to projects

• Owner of the NPP Resource Management Plan with day-to-day monitoring ensuring it is fully compliant with project requirements

• Working and liaising with the Projects/ Frameworks and Ops Teams to devise Synergies and Opportunities to inform the resource plan, with a 3, 6, 12 month look ahead

• Providing project managers with support when it comes to resource management issues or improving resource management processes

• Monitoring day-to-day resourcing, recruitment and onboarding activities

• Coordinate the succession management plan for NPP providing potential opportunities to our people for continued career development and personal growth

• Develop and update job descriptions and job specifications together with the hiring managers

• Prepare recruitment materials and post jobs to LinkedIn

• Screen and manage candidates - Act as a point of contact and build influential candidate relationships

• Provide and monitor stats and KPI’s to inform future planning and finance forecasts

• Represent Jacobs at an Operational level, supplier’s reviews and bidder forums

• Develop, capture, and communicate innovation and best practice in the business

• Participate in the refinement, improvement, development, and implementation of the business plan for the future of the business

• Selection and assignment of all disciplines to projects, matching skills to the challenges of the project

• Maximize client satisfaction with work done

• Initiate and implement work process improvements

Here’s what you’ll need :

• Strong leadership, collaborative and team working skills

• Experience in a variety of programme/project delivery and/or Operational / Framework roles

• Performance delivery excellence and demonstrable business growth

• Planning and organisational ability

• Communication skills both written and oral, and the abilities to speak articulately and confidently

• Excellent financial and numeracy skills

• Ability to analyse information and use data effectively to inform decision making

• Resourceful and efficient

• Ability to cope under pressure and with the minimum of supervision

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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