Technical Delivery Lead

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
Investment in the UK Water sector is at unprecedented levels. We have a huge opportunity to build and shape the delivery of this investment through our growing strategic relationships with the largest UK water companies. From feasibility studies and planning, to design, construction management and operations and maintenance, we bring together the talent and expertise necessary to deliver success, and we are proud of our extensive portfolio of work and broad capability.
These large portfolios require us to develop and expand delivery teams within our business which are purpose built to deliver to our clients' needs over the next asset management cycle. Our Technical Delivery Leads are responsible for mobilising, building and managing our delivery teams using local, national and global resource.
Your responsibilities will include:

• Accountable for the delivery of technical elements on portfolios of single or multi-client projects; ensure consistency in the way we deliver projects within Technical Delivery Team and apply continuous improvement in our delivery approach.
• Provide leadership to Technical Delivery Team, including design managers, project managers and engineering disciplines, who are responsible for the delivery of projects/programme in respects to time, cost and quality of technical outcomes
• Mentor deputies who will be expected to lead their own teams in the future as we expand to meet expected workload.
• Create a delivery ethos in their team with a can-do attitude supported by openness and sharing.
• Identify delivery efficiency improvements and lessons learnt and share these knowledge with the other Technical Delivery Leads
• Coordinate with other Technical Delivery Leads to ensure balanced workload across our Water business.
• Support Framework Manager and Capture Manager in the bid process for new projects to ensure a healthy and fulsome backlog of works for their Technical Delivery team.
• Support our resourcing process by identifying skills needs and supporting redeployment and recruitment activities.
• Show exemplary behaviour in personal and team health, safety and wellbeing management in accordance with our BeyondZero approach.
• Bring innovation to the programme, reaching back into our extensive organisation, identifying, and deploying our capability to maximise client value. Drive value plus ideas within Technical Delivery Team.
• Drivee the use of our national and global capacity including our global delivery centres

Here's What You'll Need:

• Track record of delivery through leadership of multi-disciplinary teams as a senior design or project manager
• Degree in an engineering or project management related discipline with chartered status.
• Demonstrable leadership skills, evidenced through delivery of results in complex operational environments, leading teams and mentoring staff.
• Excellent client and stakeholder management skills.

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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