Senior/ Principal Consultant - Decision Support

Job description

Your Impact:

Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow.

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

Our Business Intelligence and Analytics team has grown out of our asset management, business solutions and infrastructure advisory services, augmenting our other services by providing the digital systems, structure, management, and analytics our clients need to harness their data; building through practical value-adding step change solutions to create and embed strategic digital transformation and enabling them to access the intelligence in their data and make better business decisions, faster.

Our services include, system agnostic strategic data and digital consultancy, data systems structuring and cleansing, Enterprise Asset Management systems (such as Ellipse and SAP), asset modelling, predictive and prescriptive analytics, digital replicas , and digital twins , and bespoke decision support tools. Our client-centric approach is tailored to the specific pains and gains of the different levels of an organisation, drawing on our knowledge of their operations to ensure systems provide direct value to client business processes to maximise value and return on investment.

Your role will encompass three main pillars: project delivery, thought leadership and business development. You will have the opportunity work in and provide leadership to a dynamic team, fostering creativity, and driving transformative projects that combine technology, sustainability, and community engagement.

We are looking for a creative Modeller to join our UK Business Intelligence & Analytics Team. You will be joining a team who is delivering digital transformation in industry, supporting clients across multiple sectors to understand their assets and systems, and harnessing their data to make better enterprise-wide decisions. This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-performing team, realise real change and contribute to revolutionary initiatives such as Digital Twin.

As a Modeller, you will work with our clients to help them make better decisions. You will be tasked with understanding client's needs, asset systems and data. You will use our existing simulation and decision support tools and help develop new tools and approaches. You will work closely with colleagues in our projects, programmes, and client organisations. A successful candidate will be outcome focused, with experience of working with real-life data and a passion for improving data, systems and identifying insights. You be able to rationalise complex problems into decision support models and use the models to provide insights to stakeholders across a range of sectors. You will have experience of collaboratively engaging with different stakeholders to understand challenges, develop solutions and agree outputs.

Here's What You'll Need:

Mathematical, computer science, statistical, or numerical background

Ability to visualise and communicate the findings of complex analysis in an accessible manner

Coding languages such as Python or R

Speaking with clients, understanding their challenges and overcoming those challenges.

No degree or professional qualification is needed, though candidates should demonstrate comparable performance, knowledge, and expertise.

Ideally, you may also have experience with:

Applied statistical analysis

Operational asset management/engineering experience

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 .

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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