Site Supervisor Scrabster, Scotland
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
We are currently recruiting for a Site Supervisor with extensive experience in the nuclear and construction industies to join our Decommissioning Projects business. This role will be based either in our Birchwood office in Warrington or Scrabster office in Caithness, but there will be a need for site deployments, as projects require.
The Decommissioning business provides an exciting mixture of consultancy, engineering, and project management support, along with delivery of challenging decommissioning related EPC projects, to major clients in the UK across both the civil nuclear and defence industries, including Dounreay, Sellafield Limited, Urenco and Magnox.
We are very proud to have supported these clients for many years, and our partnering arrangements will enable us to sustain and enhance this support in the long-term. We also deliver a number of projects for other private companies and academia needing decommissioning solutions.
You will be an experienced site supervisor with a proven capability to lead and coordinate site activities to support decommissioning and construction projects. Primary expertise will be in the management of site teams and supervision of subcontractors. This will include skills to prepare site management documentation such as risk assessments and method statements, along with quality plans relating the site activities. You will be Jacobs representative at the workface and will be responsible for monitoring the works in line with agreed safety documentation and keeping detailed and effective site records for all activities. You will also have commercial awareness to oversee subcontractor works, monitoring progress and driving forward safe delivery in line with project schedules.
You will provide safety leadership to all the works undertaken and demonstrate appropriate behaviors and values and also support the Project Manager in the delivery of the works ensuring delivery to time, quality and cost.
The role will be a mixture of site and office-based activities with direct involvement and supervision for some projects, and others providing more managerial support to co-ordinate and control works.
- Self-starter with a professional leadership approach and a construction or trades background
- Proven experience within a nuclear or highly regulated environment.
- Proven experience of team working
- Good communication skills and ability to articulate information both verbally and in written format
- Ability to interface and liaise with key client and internal stakeholders
- Experience of a range of project requirements from construction activities to decommissioning operations
- Appropriate trades background with experience in project delivery with a strong Nuclear content.
- CSCS card and other demonstratable safety training
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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