Principal Architect

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. 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
A key enabler behind our growth and work winning strategy is the development of the Architecture team in the UK. To support this strategic objective Cities and Places are recruiting a number of engineering and architectural professionals to work within our design teams in the UK and be an integral part of delivering high-value solutions to our clients.
We are looking for a Principal Architect to join our business unit in the Cities & Places UK Architecture team. Based in the Manchester office, but with work across the UK and Europe, you will work alongside our Architects within a multi-disciplinary design team set-up, delivering design solutions across multiple sectors from Public sector, Defence, Transportation, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing and Mixed-Use development.
We deliver projects across all stages of the building design and construction process from initial strategic briefing, where client objectives and feasibility studies conducted; through to development of conceptual and technical proposals, to construction phase delivery. You will be required
You will need to work in collaboration with other project team members in preparing, reviewing and refining design proposals using various media. This includes traditional methods such as hand-sketching to develop design concepts and detailed design solutions, through to project delivery using BIM (Building Information Modelling). You will be fully conversant in using Revit and be able to coordinate Multi-D design solutions with other design disciplines including Structural, Civils, Drainage, Mechanical, Electrical and Pipework building services. You will be required to manage and run teams on smaller Projects.
Key requirements for this role are good design and communication skills with a collaborative working pro-active mindset. Regular check-in meetings to review progress, design decisions, and openly air any blockers with the UK project team will be essential and form part of your day to day work ethic. You will need to be able to work both independently and as part of a wider project team.
Here's What You'll Need:

• Qualified Architect in the UK with professional registration (Part III UK Architect equivalent)
• Professional experience in delivering design and construction projects
• Degree in Architecture and/or Urban Design
• MA or MSc higher education qualification to RIBA Part 3
• Knowledge of BIM based delivery including Autodesk Revit
• Ability to manage a small team and take a lead role on small projects
• Experience of work on Large Multi-Disciplinary design projects
• Good Design and communication skills in drawing and written formats
• Advanced English language skills
• Experience to undertake Inter-disciplinary design coordination
• Good problem solving, attention to detail, with a desire to come up with practical solutions
• Highly self-motivated with ability to work unsupervised
• Team player able to work effectively within different teams
• Proactive working mindset with flexible-working approach - able to work on a wide range of design projects

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