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Location

South Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire | 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 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:

You will work on a range of experimental and desk-based consultancy projects for customers including power generators, owners of radioactive wastes and nuclear materials, and aerospace developers, both in the UK and overseas. Our established client portfolio includes EDF (UK and France), Sellafield Ltd, Rolls Royce, Airbus, Teledyne, e2v, and ONDRAF-NIRAS. The work includes a variety of activities across the areas of materials assessment and testing and, more broadly, support to our consultancy activities. Duties include:

• Deploying desk-based and lab/analytical capabilities to assess, rationalise and document solutions for a variety of materials science, radiation physics and chemistry problems in the field of irradiated materials assessment, testing, and radioactive waste management, including definition, design of test programmes, and subsequent data analysis and interpretation.
• Routine access to our in-house gamma-irradiation facility based at Harwell to oversee the setup and execution of key experiments/tests and to enable access to the facility by key clients.
• Demonstrating and promoting the highest levels of health and safety in all aspects of the role.
• Leading the production of high-quality technical reports, as main author and/or coordinating other technical resources.
• Reviewing and assimilating data/information and technical reports produced by other members of the team.
• Leading successful interactions with clients, including presentation of key results and their interpretation in the context of client needs.
• Leading business development activities (including competitive bidding) in relevant technical areas.
• Carrying out project management and project control activities.
• Taking ownership of agreed work areas, and delivering work to agreed timescales, quality and cost.

Jacobs is committed to the continuing professional development of our staff. You will have excellent opportunities to progress by furthering your technical, project management, and commercial capabilities and broadening into the wider interests of our company.

Here’s what you’ll need :

• A degree in a relevant physical science or engineering discipline OR equivalent training/experience.
• A PhD in a Materials Science, Physical Chemistry, or Applied Physics OR equivalent working experience.
• Outstanding desk-based analytical skills with focus on materials science, chemistry or physics, ideally in the field of polymeric materials, and/or irradiated materials.
• Fundamental grasp of radiation effects on materials, and nuclear radiation physics.
• Strong track record of demonstrating professional experience in deploying technical/scientific skills for a variety of technical challenges across different material, chemical and/or physical science problems.
• Numerate with excellent technical writing skills, demonstrated by recent publication of technical work in industry reports and/or scientific literature.
• Flexible, innovative, and keen to develop and take ownership of client portfolio, ideally including demonstration of previous commercial skills.
• Adaptable, able to work on and/or coordinate a number of varied projects at the same time, prioritising as appropriate.
• Able to lead and work within multi-disciplinary teams.
• Expertise in polymer science, and/or irradiated materials science would be highly desirable.
• Previous experience working within irradiation facilities would be desirable.

If you are looking for a new challenge and are passionate about developing yourself then we want to meet you.

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.

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.

Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent.For greater online accessibility please visit 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 .

Your application experience is important to us and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. We welcome feedback on our recruitment process and if you need more from us before deciding to join Jacobs then please let us know.

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