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Location

Reading, Berkshire | United Kingdom

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Job description

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.

About the opportunity

We are seeking a highly collaborative, skilled and experienced Head of Engineering to work alongside our NNEP Leadership Team on a key strategic, delivery partner framework in the UK defence industry with a value of circa £750m. The successful candidate will play a key role shaping and developing our framework technical capability including the people, processes, technology and continuous improvement plan supporting the NNEP Technical Director. The Head of Engineering will work closely supporting Engineering input to the Delivery Programmes.

Projects will vary in scale and complexity. You will be engaged across the engineering aspects of the project delivery life cycle from initial project definition and FEED studies to concept design, detailed design, procurement, and liaising with the Head of Construction and Head of Commissioning to ensure delivery excellence is embedded through to project handover.

This position will require regular attendance in our Reading office Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 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:

• Be responsible for delivering the Engineering Delivery Strategy to enable a solution-driven approach, enhance technical opportunities, reduce risk and engineering control change management - socialise and agree with NNEP wider stakeholders.
• Engage positively with engineering suppliers – both internal and externally, including overseas suppliers (GID).
• Work alongside the Operations Director and Delivery Directors to ensure that the right engineering resources are available and suitably SQEP’ed to support project delivery. Build a resource plan to encourage diversity of both thought and demographic within the Engineering Team.
• Support the growth of the framework by managing and delivering technical proposals and solutions to meet client delivery requirements and Jacob's business demands to enable delivery excellence.
• Develop a solution-driven culture that focuses on opportunities and value-plus approach and manage and mitigate risks,
• Being curious about adoption of new ways of working and collaborate with the Transformation Director and wider NNEP Lead Team to integrate technical solutions.
• Provide inspirational leadership of multidisciplinary teams ensuring appropriate resources are available and fully trained to be able to carry out their tasks via matrixed Delivery Teams and lead exemplary stakeholder relations and accountability across the framework, client organisation, wider supply chain and Jacob's capabilities for a true One Jacobs offering and delivery.
• Track and report on the technical aspects of the NNEP delivery portfolio, in conjunction with the Delivery Directors.

Here’s what you’ll need :

• Be an inspirational engineering leader who is able to provide the balance between technical excellence and delivery drivers.
• Degree qualified, chartered member of a recognised engineering institution with a minimum of10 years’ experience in an engineering.
• In-depth knowledge and proven expertise of design within a high hazard environment and awareness of applicable UK safety legislation.
• Proven knowledge of and understanding of the significance of working to technical standards, providing technical assurance.
• Strong planning skills together with the flexibility and resilience required to maintain momentum of the delivery of projects.
• Hold or have the ability to gain SC (Security Clearance) and be a sole British National.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and report-writing skills.

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.

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 –

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