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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, 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
Nuclear Power Programmes are delivering client critical works to some of our major UK and European Projects. Our embedded teams are delivering support to Hinkley Point C (New build power station in the South West), Sizewell C (located in the South East), helping develop technologies in SMR (Small modular Reactor) capability and working towards building Poland's first Nuclear Power station.
The purpose of the role is to support Programme Director in defining and in driving delivery and implementation of Programme Digitalisation Plan, and to act as a single point of interface to the CDO team to ensure alignment of Programme Digitalisation Plan with the overall SZC Digitalisation, Data & Information Management Strategy, SZC IT Strategy, and drive required contributions from people and functions within the Programme and report progress, risk and opportunities related to delivery of Programme Digitalisation Plan within Programme Performance Reviews. Key responsibilities include:
- Working closely with Programme Director and his Senior Leadership Team to develop and maintaining good understanding of Programme priorities related to different lifecycle stage of the project
- Driving definition of Programme Digitalisation Plan linked to Programme Objectives for each lifecycle of the SZC project by actively driving ‘digital by default’ ways of working within the programme, expected by UK government Transforming Infrastructure Performance roadmap.
- Securing input of CDO team into definition of Programme Digitalisation Plan to ensure the plan is aligned with overall SZC Digitalisation, Data & Information Management strategy and reflects current opportunities that technology brings to delivery of large infrastructure projects.
- Maintaining resourced task plan for delivery of Programme Digitalisation Plan.
- Setting up and leading relevant interface meetings with CDO team and with Function Data & Digitalisation Leads, to communicate requests for input and contributions from CDO team and other programme functions.
Here’s what you’ll need:
- Hands-on Project Management experience on large complex projects
- Experience or understanding of change management activities required for organisation transformation with technology.
- Excellent understanding of infrastructure project delivery processes and challenges
- Appreciation of the opportunities that data and technology can bring to infrastructure project delivery.
- Strong communication and influencing skills, experience engaging with senior leadership teams.
- Confident leading workstreams and working as part of a team.
- Desirable experience in leading digital transformation initiatives in infrastructure sectors.
- Ability to balance conflicting and changing demands through prioritisation and a pragmatic approach
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.
Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role
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