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SalaryAt 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' Robotics Development Team offers start-to-end full system design, research, development and testing for integrated electro-mechanical and software systems. We create smaller and smarter robotics systems to solve complex inspection and maintenance challenges across multiple heavy industries. Key to our current and future success is a creative and innovative approach to commercialisation and business, ensuing that solutions can be rapidly deployed as well as rapidly developed. We are looking for a Business Development Engineer with a broad range of technical, commercial, and operational skills to join our team at the Birchwood campus. We anticipate this to be a challenging and fast-paced role with significant scope for on-the-job learning and future career growth.
Responsibilities of the role include:
- Drive growth of the Robotics Development Team by:
- Identifying and researching potential clients and opportunities for business growth. Establishing and maintaining relationships with existing and potential clients to understand their needs and requirements.
- Creating technical proposals, bids, case studies, and presentations that demonstrate the value and capabilities of the team's products, projects, and services.
- Liaising with technical experts to ensure proposals and bids are technically sound and feasible.
- Providing technical and commercial support for the commercialisation of products and services.
- Keeping up-to-date with industry trends, technologies and competitor activities, and providing insights to the team to improve business performance.
- Provide organisational and technical support for ongoing projects by:
- Championing a Systems Engineering approach to product/project development, including requirements capture, concept design, iterative testing, continuous integration, design for manufacturing and full-lifecycle management.
- Acting as Product Owner to advocate for and ensure that development is in-line with the client requirements and expectations.
- Help complete and maintain a technology development roadmap, ensuring that prerequisite engineering, organisational development, and research activity is completed to unlock future opportunities.
- Providing a wider range multi-disciplinary engineering capacity across mechanical, electronics and software, to support technical project work on an as-needed basis.
Here's What You'll Need:
- Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Excellent organisational skills, specifically the ability to maintain dynamic organisation in a fast-paced and growing team.
- Good understanding of systems engineering principles, operational leadership, and project management.
- A creative, innovative, and proactive approach to solving problems.
- Flexibility and a willingness to learn new skills as needed.
- Programming skills in languages such as C , Python, and C#.
- Knowledge of version control systems such as Git and familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
- Proficiency with the use of 3D CAD software for mechanical design (e.g. Solidworks).
- Development, testing and integration of bespoke electronics, including PCB design (e.g. Altium).
- Practical skills for light assembly including soldering and fine-scale work.
- Strong understanding of physics and mathematics as they relate to software and hardware development.
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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