Team Leader - Radioactive Waste Strategy/EndStates

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 Team Leader to join our Waste Management Consultancy business. Due to the rapid growth of our business in the civil nuclear waste management sector, we require more support to deliver and continue to expand our expertise.

Jacobs has a leading role in waste strategy, inventory and compliance underpinning the future management of radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuels and nuclear materials. We also support clients with Site End-State decision making and underpinning environmental activities. In the UK, we deliver a diverse range of projects for waste producers, waste management organisations and strategic authorities across all aspects of the waste lifecycle. We are delivering similarly interesting and exciting projects across the globe including projects for clients in Norway, Central & Eastern Europe and Japan.

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated candidate as a technical team leader. The candidate will be expected to grow the business in these areas and further develop their team accordingly, as well as conducting technical work within their own specialism. You will join a friendly, highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary group. The vacancy provides an excellent opportunity for those wishing to develop their careers in our technically and commercially challenging business.

We are operating under flexible working arrangements, with a mixture of office-based and home working environments. The role can be based at Harwell, Cumbria, Scrabster or Birchwood and other locations will be considered.

Key Responsibilities:

The role includes two key aspects - technical delivery in your specialist topic area and leadership of a team of related disciplines.

The technical delivery aspects of the role include:

• Assessment of different options for waste or environment-related issues using recognised approaches such as BAT and BPM
• Site-end state development projects including data gathering/analysis; options assessments; technical justification
• Waste planning (waste management plans/cases, waste routing, feasibility assessments)
• Support to environmental underpinning activities to satisfy regulatory compliance (e.g. environmental permitting, GRR, environmental management systems
• Stakeholder engagement
• Best practice studies or the development of guidance documentation
• Provision of strategic input to Jacobs' waste retrievals and decommissioning projects, potentially including on-site support
• Production of concise and well-written technical reports and presentation of results to clients

Team leadership aspects of the role include:

• Responsibility for team safety, well-being and career development
• Responsibilities for management of frameworks and/or project portfolios
• Project profitability and team utilisation targets
• Developing an understanding of the underlying requirements of our clients, and leading client relationships
• Bidding for and winning work, including developing business development strategies
• Growing your team and developing capability

Here's What You'll Need:

• Degree qualification (or equivalent training and experience) in appropriate mathematical, physical science or engineering discipline.
• Significant experience or more in a comparable consultancy or strategic waste management focussed role (individual candidates need experience of some of the technical topic areas described above, not necessarily all)
• Experience of bid leadership and proposal preparation
• Ability to manage time and priorities while working on several varied projects
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including tailoring outputs to the requirements of different stakeholders

The following are not essential but we welcome applications from candidates who have any of the following experience:

• Recognised technical leadership within the industry
• Existing experience leading a multi-disciplinary team
• Practical experience of waste management on nuclear sites
• Formal project management qualifications

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.

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