Senior Technical Author

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:

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Technical Author to join our integrated joint venture team on the TDA Framework at Sellafield
The main goal of this framework is to assist in the decommissioning of the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo, one of four legacy waste plants prioritised for clean-up by Sellafield Ltd's owner, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) . .

As a result of an increasing portfolio of projects, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Technical Author to join the team in Westlakes Industrial Estate.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce a suite of compliant documentation within defined time frames.
• Interrogate engineering / design and vendor information to produce trade pack scope documents.
• Attend progress meetings and provide weekly progress updates.
• Ensure quality standards, and consistency are applied throughout the range of produced documentation.
• The maturity of the engineering work provided to base the MPB upon is understood and configuration controlled, including change control and adjustments where the engineering develops further between going to market for pricing and agreeing the MPB.
• The engineering work to deliver the MPB is planned and balanced appropriately against delivery of the main project engineering work.
  

Here's What You'll Need:

• Experience of Major Projects, ideally including experience of governance approvals and stakeholder environment.
• Experience of pricing work, significant bids to clients, or delivery of significant projects to time and cost in a commercial environment.
• Experience of Engineering delivery across the project lifecycle and across all engineering functions including security and safety case. (does not require an engineering specialism or deep technical knowledge - but needs sufficient experience to lead in an engineering environment)
• Ideally good understanding of engineering maturity particularly around Hazop and detail design gate.

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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