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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 over 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers exciting opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team that always strives to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs' most significant 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:

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Process Engineer to join our growing Process Engineering capability. The successful candidate will play a key role in our organisation, collaborating closely with clients and stakeholders. They will be responsible for scoping, estimating, managing, and delivering projects.

They will address and resolve Process Engineering issues within a multi-discipline project using their technical capabilities and engineering judgement, applying their skills, or generating innovative solutions as appropriate whilst simultaneously interacting and collaborating with our engineers from other disciplines and offices to deliver projects on time and to budget.

Projects will vary in scale and complexity. You will be engaged across the complete project delivery lifecycle from initial project definition and FEED studies to detailed design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover to operations.

This position will require regular attendance in our Winnersh (Reading) office with frequent client site visits to develop stakeholder requirements and build critical relationships for success. However, work-life balance and flexibility are a focus for Jacobs. We're happy to discuss patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

Your responsibilities will include:

• You will assist with scoping of projects and develop project functional requirements;

• You will liaise with clients and project team members to develop and substantiate the design of process systems as part of wider integrated engineering solutions to deliver added value for our clients;

• You will be involved throughout the engineering lifecycle generating high quality technical documentation, for example process flow sheets, engineering calculations, specifications, datasheets and technical reports;

• You will size and select plant and equipment including production of process data sheets;

• You will produce, review and update process engineering drawings, for example process flow diagrams and process and instrumentation diagrams;

• You will ensure that engineering solutions meet functional, performance and safety requirements including being actively involved in verification activities to determine the optimal solution for the client;

• You will liaise with stakeholders, including clients, suppliers and project team members in the delivery of engineering solutions to technical specification;

• You will have the ability to support and develop less experienced engineers working within the engineering team or project team.

Here’s what you’ll need :

• A degree in a relevant engineering discipline or demonstrable equivalent underpinning knowledge and understanding;

• Attained or working towards Chartered Engineer status with an appropriate professional institution;

• Ability to lead elements of engineering projects of varying size and complexity, managing technical aspects as well as quality and resources;

• Experience in a process engineering role generating engineering solutions and verification of compliance with a specification through analysis, testing or commissioning; familiar with engineering design substantiation;

• Ability to work autonomously and manage your own time and workload to deliver against agreed milestones;

• Ability to work effectively as a team member within a multidisciplinary team liaising directly with team members and clients;

• Good verbal and written communication and technical writing skills;

• Ability to achieve a minimum of SC security clearance.

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 genuinely believe that we all succeed by supporting one another through our culture of caring. 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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