Project Manager (Design)

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 O pportunity

The Repository Infrastructure Framework is engineering, design and construction framework being delivered on the Nuclear Waste Services Low Level Waste Repository site at Drigg in Cumbria. The role is to project manage projects and tasks for the Repository Infrastructure Framework and subsequent frameworks at the Low Level Waste Repository.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsibility for the management and delivery of Design projects and tasks across the Contract Framework.
• Ensure flawless project execution, meeting or beating the delivery commitments made.
• Ensuring capability needs are clearly communicated.
• To participate in Design Reviews and, where appropriate, organise such reviews. Ensure that subsequent design meets the projects' requirements.
• Maintain the capability of the delivery team, identify and cover capability shortfalls.
• Ensuring the requirements of the Health & Safety of Work act, CDM, Machineries Directive, and the COSHH regulations are understood and complied with
• Producing the financial forecasts for the delivery area and ensuring that the forecasts are accurate and up to date.
• Driving project performance in line with financial forecast and reporting project performance indicators as required.
• Ensuring the incorporation of 'best practice' and LFE into the framework/project /task delivery.
• Management of the varying demand profiles including resource skills across the portfolio and managing the associated resource needs.

Here's What You'll Need:

• Experience working in a fast-paced project environment
• Familiar with working under NEC 4 contracts
• Good working knowledge of CEMAR
• Degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant technical or business discipline
• Good understanding of financial and commercial aspects of project management.
• APM qualification or equivalent

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

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