Design Manager / Senior Design Manager (Buildings), UK - #1695079

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

Our values are the fundamental tenets shared across our organisation and the standards we hold ourselves to We do things right | We aim higher | We challenge the accepted | We live inclusion.

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 programs, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships.

About The Opportunity

With approximately $12 billion in annual revenue and a team of almost 45,000, at Jacobs we provide end-to-end services in cities & places, energy, environmental, life sciences, transportation, advanced facilities and water. From advisory & consulting, feasibility, planning, design, program and lifecycle management, we're creating a more connected and sustainable world.

Our Cities & Places team are currently seeking experienced Design Managers to join us in delivering a range of projects, primarily in the buildings and aviation space. The successful candidates will have a strong technical background, excellent facilitation skills and solid business acumen.

At Jacobs, Design Managers are critical to the successful delivery of a coordinated, fit-for-purpose design. Our Design Managers

• Are responsible for multi-disciplinary design delivery to achieve project quality, cost and programme needs
• Ensure a coordinated, collaborative and efficient delivery through facilitation and direction of the multi-disciplinary design team
• Engage collaboratively with clients to understand requirements and deliver solutions.
• Often also engage in contractor-facing roles to provide technical or other delivery assurance on behalf of our clients
• Bring a combination of technical, project management and coordination skills to the project
  
  
  

We’ll need you to be an excellent communicator with well-rounded people skills as you will manage diverse teams with different and often competing goals, enabling them to work together to produce coordinated and high-quality designs. You’ll also have excellent client management skills with the ability to present your ideas clearly and effectively, evaluate the ideas of others, and communicate progress, potential issues and proposed mitigation.

• This role is available on a hybrid-working basis from one of our offices in London, Manchester or Birmingham
• Full time employment with Jacobs is 40 hours per week _ work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs and so we’re happy to discuss part-time and flexible working hours / patterns to suit you and our business
• Your ability to secure SC level security clearance would be advantageous
  
  
  

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

Here's what you'll need

• Suitably qualified and experienced in Architecture or Engineering discipline and chartered status (or working towards) with a professional engineering or architectural body
• Proven Design Management experience gained across a range of projects, leading a team in a multi-disciplinary environment
• Ability to operate autonomously and to develop and build relationships in multifaceted working environments
• Sound working knowledge of BIM for project delivery and comfortable using or viewing tools such as Revizto / Navisworks, Microsoft Office, P6 / MS Project, Revit, AutoCAD and Information Management tools
• Experience in commercial, contractual and schedule management aspects of project delivery
  
  
  

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, Women and Vetnet. Find out more about our employee networks here.

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