Area Engineering Manager

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.
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About the Opportunity;
LSS1 is one of the PPP alliance partners projects and is an alliance between a number of companies including Jacobs and Sellafield Ltd
You will be joining a large existing team that clearly understands the different requirements for optioneering, solution inspired, design decommissioning, operating plant asset care, infrastructure and new builds.
The role will typically involve the following,

• Leading the multidiscipline teams, responsible for estimating, scheduling, forecasting and the production of the agreed design deliverables
• Management of the PPP teams in production of deliverables
• Co-ordinating the development of the safety case(s), including attendance at HAZOPs, support to safety assessment, production of substantiation documentation
• Resource identification of additional resource demand where required to ensure all deliverables can be originated and checked in accordance with the project schedule dates to a quality recognised procedure
• Interfacing with other Project Discipline leads within the project(s)
• Interfacing and engagement with Site clients and stakeholders
• Taking responsibility for ensuring deliverables are produced to time and budget

Here's What You'll Need:
Relevant engineering Degree/HNC

• Demonstrable track record of full project lifecycle delivery and the use of company management systems.
• Demonstrable evidence of strong leadership and organisation skills.
• Experience of managing a team of (internal and external) engineers and designers (across various locations/sites)
• Pragmatic approach to problem solving and ability to apply engineering judgement.
• Programme and estimate preparation and forecasting to provide underpinned robust project & task estimates.
• Understanding and working knowledge of safety cases
• Working knowledge of Mechanical Handling systems and General Mechanical Design
• Understanding and experience of relevant legislation, standards and procedures relevant to nuclear industry across all disciplines

Our Culture
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