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Jacobs Project Engineer - Mechanical in Morecambe, 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
Jacobs are recruiting for a motivated Project Engineer (Mechanical) to join our growing team on site.
Our teams support this key client in nuclear generation across their fleet in the UK. You will be working as part of an embedded team on site in Heysham, Lancashire and will support the diverse portfolio of projects and programmes with them. As a Project Engineer you will have a Mechanical bias and ideally have a working knowledge of controls and instrumentation – but this is not essential.
As a Project Engineer with us you will be using your communication and organisational skills to deliver your work, this will be within the Fuel Route Team and again, experience in this would be advantageous but not essential.
On site you will report to a station Project Manager who will also work with you to allocate your work within this role.
You will have a mentor who will support your development within the role as well as training and peer support.
Within the team on site is your Jacobs Line Manager who will be on hand for any Jacobs questions or queries as well as client ones too.
This role is based on site but there may be the need for occasional business travel which will be agreed with you in advance.
Here’s What You’ll Need:
We’d like you to be a Chartered Engineer or HND Plus with extensive experience in Mechanical engineering disciplines.
Site Management Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS) qualified is also desirable.
You will have experience of identifying, implementing, and complying with applicable safety, environmental and quality standards, company procedures
and policies and other relevant legislative and regulatory requirements.
You will manage technical queries and prepare and maintain engineering documentation including quality plans and technical specifications in support of
the process of contractor selection and contract placement. You will then conduct technical reviews of contractor's documents and drawings.
Executing feasibility studies and site surveys then liaising with designers and station engineering staff is required.
Candidates that hold the APMP formal project management qualification or equivalent and versed in modern project management techniques, are preferred but it is not essential.
Good understanding of equipment reliability.
Experience in full lifecycle of a project.
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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