Senior Project Manager

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, 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 have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager to join our Client facing team delivering projects in support of the site redevelopment at BAE Systems in Barrow in Furness. The successful candidates will become part of a respected and ambitious company's contribution to an integrated project team venture engaged in the whole life development and implementation of infrastructure improvements across the site. These roles carry excellent career prospects and are full time to 2023 and beyond.

The successful candidates will be flexible, knowledgeable and willing and able to function both within the team and independently as required. They will also already have an appreciation of Client / Site specific process and procedures and experience of working successfully within them.

These roles require management of "develop, design and build" projects to provide facility improvements within an operational nuclear licensed site as part of a focussed programme of development, including:

• Establishment of the project's requirements in concept and the team to deliver them.
• Engagement with client and customer stakeholders.
• Management of the project through the client's investment governance processes.
• Assistance to the Framework and Client Account Managers during establishment of the programme's scope, organisation, processes and requirements.

Experience:

• Degree qualified in appropriate engineering or management subject.
• Membership of a relevant professional body such as the APM or an engineering institution is preferred.
• Awareness of the stage–gate principles of project delivery is required. Client specific governance processes will be explained in–post.
• Awareness of UK Health and Safety Legislation. Information concerning specific company safety, quality and security procedures will be provided in–post.
• Superior interpersonal skills are required to enable effective interaction with clients, seniors and peers while working in a "Team" environment.
• Must possess good listening skills enabling requests to be assimilated and converted into action plans.
• Evidence of experience in a similar project management role within a programme management environment is preferred; it is anticipated that candidates will have moderate project experience or more.
• Understanding and experience of NEC contracts is preferred.

Candidates should be a UK National with SC level Security clearance and/or an ability and willingness to be enhanced.

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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