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Jacobs Senior Mechanical Engineer in Warrington, 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 Engineering Development are currently recruiting for key positions within our design team to strengthen our existing capability for several new and exciting projects in the energy sector.
Jacobs Engineering Development works with our clients to develop complete solutions to complex problems. We focus on solving the problem quickly by finding a fit for purpose engineering solution which can be rapidly developed, tested and deployed. We are based at Birchwood in Warrington and via our labs, rig halls and manufacturing capability on site can offer full project lifecycle solutions via: design, manufacture, testing and deployment. This is an opportunity to be involved in fast paced projects that will challenge you.
Specific responsibilities are:
Delivery of mechanical based work in the definition, implementation and execution of engineering design work packages to support innovative solutions for clients.
Development of mechanical functional requirements of the design with client at project initiation
Clear underpinning of decision process with respect to preferred solutions
Delivery of quality mechanical based engineering deliverables
Work collaboratively with the other team members and providing support and mentoring for junior engineers.
Ensure that governance and assurance is applied to work
Consideration of conventional and nuclear safety in all work
Presentation of design to client and at design review
Liaising with the in house manufacturing team and equipment suppliers
Conducting, assessing, and reviewing trials work to determine an optimum solution for the clients
Ensuring that the mechanical functional requirements of the design are met.
Here’s what you’ll need :
Degree qualified in Mechanical Engineering (or relevant engineering discipline)/Ideally chartered or working towards chartership.
Health & Safety Focus, particularly on Construction, Design and Management Regulations 2015
Proactive and driven approach to work, taking ownership of the tasks required to be completed under their remit.
Good communication skills and ability to work with other team members
Competent Report writing skills: clearly and concisely reporting findings.
Comfortable working under time and cost constraints.
You will be required to hold or be able to gain security clearance to UK SC level
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) .
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