director delivery manager Bridgwater, England
Job description
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
Nuclear Power Programmes are delivering client critical works to some of our major UK and European Projects. Our embedded teams are delivering support to Hinkley Point C (New build power station in the South West), Sizewell C (located in the South East), helping develop technologies in SMR (Small modular Reactor) capability and working towards building Poland's first Nuclear Power station.
Working in both client facing and internal roles we are delivering major programme and project management capabilities throughout the project lifecycle. We are driving to deliver safe, high quality and to time solutions by thinking innovatively and working collaboratively.
As a direct report to the NI Area, Site & Civils Director this is a key leadership position within the Delivery organisation. You will be responsible for the direction and leadership of all activities required for the integrated delivery of scope assigned to their sub-areas, from design through to handover of the plant, in accordance with the overall Project schedule. You will support the NI Area, Site & Civils Director in the delivery of the overall delivery Area to the HPC schedule.
This will include the full lifecycle delivery of contracts directly assigned to their sub-areas and the integration of Site wide transverse contract scope through their leadership of multi-disciplinary teams (MDT).
Under delegation from the NI Area, Site & Civils Director you will lead the delivery of agreed scope within the NI Area. To do this you will perform several key roles but be principally accountable for ensuring, through your leadership of MDTs, the successful coordinated delivery across the sub-area lifecycle of the design, procurement, construction and commissioning sequences and activities required to deliver the HPC schedule.
Here’s What You’ll Need:- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of Project Management and hold a Professional Qualification as APM PPQ or other recognised qualification. Together with a Degree and chartered status in construction, engineering or other relevant discipline, a Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of EPR design is essential
- Proven extensive experience in delivering major projects within a technically complex and dynamic environment is critical to this role
- We are looking for someone who has great leadership behaviour and management qualities, working knowledge of either/or NEC and FIDIC contract arrangements; and knowledge and understanding of the significance of quality and assurance within the nuclear setting
- This Post has nuclear safety responsibilities (“roles”) which could have an impact on nuclear safety through the activities that they perform. These are detailed in the Nuclear Baseline
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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