Operations 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. 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.
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:
AXIOM is one of the DSA alliance partners and is an unincorporated Joint Venture (JV) made up of four major engineering contracting companies each with complementary capabilities and skills. The members have excellent nuclear pedigrees, demonstrated expertise and effective track records across the UK nuclear fleet and related nuclear industries.
AXIOM provides process, mechanical, civil structural and architectural, electrical, instrumentation, control and safety capabilities to support Sellafield Ltd.
The extensive capacity and capabilities of the AXIOM alliance provide the essential expertise that is crucial to achieving both the designs of the alliance and the wider goals of Sellafield Ltd and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).
We have an opportunity for an Operations Manager to join our Warrington team.
Some of your responsibilities will be:

• Line Management focused on the care, wellbeing, personal development and career development of our staff aligned to Jacobs core values and expectations through 'full life cycle' management.
• Developing and growing customer relationships.
• Engagement with stakeholders and clients to develop and maintain appropriate measures and delivery methodologies.
• Ensure flawless project execution, meeting or beating the delivery commitments made.
• Progressing a multi-disciplined approach with the appropriate resources including interface with business supporting functions.
• Identification of improvements and drive initiatives to enhance the aims of the business and project performance to ensure maximised benefits and value-added outcomes.
• Ensuring the incorporation of 'best practice' and LFE into the framework/project /task delivery
• Identifying new opportunities and collaborating with other stakeholders to realise benefits.
• Coordination of resourcing/recruitment needs, including participation in candidate interviews, candidate selection and approval process.

Here's What You'll Need:

• Experience of business development and the production of winning bids.
• Good understanding of financial and commercial aspects of operations management.
• Able to communicate effectively and develop relationships with at all levels of the business and external organisations.
• A clear focus on collaboration and growth

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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