Process Engineer

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
Our Intelligent Engineering Solutions Business is recruiting for adaptable, forward thinking Process Engineers to join our Process Engineering capability in support of an increasing portfolio of projects. Our projects cover the full project lifecycle from small feasibility studies to commissioning on major projects and frameworks and everything in between. We deliver first class designs as part of multidiscipline teams across our diverse portfolio of projects covering topics such as:

• A dvanced modular reactors
• N uclear decommissioning,
• D efence,
• F usion technology
• G reen hydrogen
• C hemicals,

To meet our desire to support the clean energy transition alongside the needs of our clients to develop solutions in sometimes challenging environments, we utilise our knowledge and experience built across our history in across diverse sectors, particularly in highly regulated industries such as nuclear and chemicals.
As a Process Engineer will be responsible for process design development and will report to one of our Process Engineering Leads who will provide you with support and guidance in the role. You will work within a multi-discipline team to deliver the process design which typically includes key Process Engineering activities such as calculations, simulations and reports, process safety assessments, and participation in HAZOPs and design reviews.
Your responsibilities will include:

• Planning and prioritising your own work to ensure that functional project requirements on scope, time and cost are met.
• Carry out engineering calculations to deliver a quality functional input to projects.
• Carry out commissioning activities at client site as required, to ensure successful engineering handover.
• Ensure that work complies with all necessary corporate, departmental and legislative requirements and procedures, to guarantee that the necessary consistency and quality of delivery is maintained.
• Develop own engineering experience and skills, moving towards the capability to move to a more senior role and towards professional qualification

Here's What You'll Need:

• Degree qualified in Chemical Engineering or equivalent
• Minimum 2 years in Process Engineering or related role
• Adaptable Process Engineering experience, and ability to use transferable skills across a wide range of projects and industries, supported by our experienced multi-discipline engineering team
• A good knowledge of Process Design Health, Safety and Environmental (DHSE) issues and knowledge of key regulations (e.g. DSEAR, CDM, COMAH) is preferable, but not essential
• A pro-active, self-starter, with excellent collaborative, innovative, problem-solving and communication skills.
• Ability to work within process and multi-discipline teams

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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