Technical Safety Lead

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

Jacobs is looking to recruit a Technical Safety Lead to support the growth in the International area of our Strategic Markets business. Successful applicants to the role will lead and oversee technical safety project execution. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve project goals efficiently and effectively. This role can be based at either our Warrington, Bristol, Glasgow office locations.

Jacobs has been engaged through an Integration Partnership Agreement to support TEPCO attain its objectives for the decommissioning of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. The role of the International Decommissioning Team is to build relationships and provide International Good Practice that help TEPCO reach its targets. The Jacobs team also leads and coordinates the support on specific projects to achieve delivery outcomes for TEPCO.

This business expansion reflects on our success and forward strategy with an enhanced focus on our Japan campaign and could provide an ideal development opportunity, with the chance for international experience. Your responsibilities will include:

• Delivering at lead or principal safety engineer level
• Make safety the highest priority with a continued strive towards Zero Harm
• Identify the discipline resourcing needs and ensure the competence of personnel delivering technical safety
• Work with the technical lead to ensure that training plans and succession are aligned to the project requirements
• Ensure that technical safety is coordinated across all projects

Here's What You'll Need:

• Degree qualified in a relevant engineering or science degree or demonstrate equivalent underpinning knowledge and understanding
• Shall be proven in the safety lead or principal safety engineer role
• Regulated engineering or technical experience
• Experience delivering high quality concise technical deliverables related to complicated subject areas and with thorough quality assurance arrangements
• Understanding of the effective definition of nuclear facility status, characteristics, and conditions
• Experience of safety case deliverables at the FEED/Preliminary design stage
• Knowledge of nuclear legal and regulatory frameworks

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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