Infrastructure and Integration Service Manager

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

Nuclear Power Programmes are delivering client critical works to some of our major UK and European Projects. Our embedded teams are delivering support to Hinkley Point C (New build power station in the South West), Sizewell C (located in the South East), helping develop technologies in SMR (Small modular Reactor) capability and working towards building Poland's first Nuclear Power station.

Working in both client facing and internal roles we are delivering major programme and project management capabilities throughout the project lifecycle. We are driving to deliver safe, high quality and to time solutions by thinking innovatively and working collaboratively.

The Site Operations Infrastructure and Integration Service Manager reports directly to the Site Operations Manager and is responsible for the strategic direction and leadership, of all activities associated with life cycle delivery of the specific area[s] of work assigned to them. They are accountable for ensuring the efficient delivery of support services in accordance with all safety, quality time and cost parameters to meet the needs of the HPC construction project.

The Service Manager is the HPC Construction Site subject matter expert for their scope of work - and will be called upon to provide technical input during the planning, preparation and subsequent operations of their work area. The post holder will have direct line management responsibilities for the Site Operations Delivery Leads assigned to the specific areas of work for which they are accountable.

Key Responsibilities will be:

• Lead the provision of critical site support services to a construction workforce of circa 10,500
• Be directly responsible for budgetary control for contracts with values of up to £250m [full project lifecycle]
• Directly accountable for ensuring all statutory, regulatory and site controls are complied with
• Manage a range of multi-level stakeholder relationships both internally and externally
• Assume delegated authority consistent with the management of the major contracts associated with the assigned scope of work
• Define the work scope to be delivered within the contract or package of work and the interfaces with all other elements of the project.
• Provide Assurance on weekly progress, driving recovery if necessary through the MDTs
• Secure the required resource necessary to meet project requirements, and identify any personnel shortfalls or issues within the project team
• Develop and execute effective strategies and plans in line with the overall programme execution plan [PEP]
• Anticipate and resolve any issues arising with the contract or package of works, identifying risks and facilitating their resolution.
  

Here's What You'll Need:

• Degree standard education or recent relevant senior management experience working at a similar level in a related industrial setting.
• Experience of working with and developing similar sized packages of work relating to expected budget of up to £250m.
• Significant Management Experience on a construction site, other industrial plant or other high hazard industry.
• Experience of working in a high security environment.
• Managing a multi-disciplinary team
• Proven track record of delivery within a large project environment.
• Excellent communication skills and experience of positive stakeholder engagement [internally and externally].
• Intellectual capacity to deal with complex issues - and work within our local supply chain vision, creating a one team ethos.

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 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 .

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