Asset Planning / Programme Optimisation Lead

Your Impact:

Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow.

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

Within the next 10 years, our water sector clients' capital programmes will increase by a factor of 2-3. Driven by increased demand for improved environmental performance and future water scarcity, our water clients need to deliver very large, and often complex investments. Within the Northeast, our teams are mobilising within multi-organisation enterprises, taking the lead in the optimisation of our client's plans to maximise efficiency and deliver increased social and environmental value.

We have an extremely exciting role available for the right individual. We are looking for a senior, experienced Asset Planning/Programme Optimisation Lead, with an asset management background, who will lead our team in identifying and delivering programme level optimisation on a multi-billion pound investment portfolio. The individual will work extensively with our client's asset management teams, understanding needs, developing strong relationships, and providing strategic and tactical advice and influence.

In addition to this, the individual will work with our Technical Delivery Teams, project and programme managers within a collaborative enterprise environment. The individual will lead innovation within our programmes of work, identifying programmatic solutions, developing approaches to triaging incoming projects and developing strategies for the creation and management of benefits.

Responsibilities

We are looking for senior leader leaders, experienced in asset management and project delivery with excellent communication and client management skills. Responsibilities will include:

• Working with the client asset management team to identify AMP8 programme, understand the needs and transition work into our technical teams


• Collaborate with other enterprise delivery partners to develop effective ways of working.


• Leading optimisation of a £multi-billion programme, identifying opportunities to outperform on time, cost and quality.


• Influence enterprise teams to deliver financial and non-financial benefits (e.g. social value, carbon and biodiversity net gain).


• Leading our programme triage, identifying and fast-tracking programmes of work into appropriate delivery streams, and quickly identifying project opportunities.


• Leading our technical teams in the development of strategies and tactical plans to achieve programme benefit.


• Leading enterprise transformation work packages, drawing on your personal knowledge and experience of what supports successful enterprise delivery.


• Providing leadership and innovation to our clients and enterprise participants, challenging behaviours and culture, identifying and overcoming blockers, and showing vision and passion for change.


• Embracing and role-modelling ways of working with colleagues that are collaborative, inclusive and demonstrate commitment to success through mutual gain.


• Sharing best practice across the wider Jacobs business


• Coaching and mentoring colleagues to support embedding collaborative values and behaviours.


• Supporting our leadership team and delivering health, safety and wellbeing excellence in everything we do.


Here's what you'll need:

· Degree qualified in relevant engineering and/or Asset Management discipline.

· Enthusiastic, self-starter with an open mind who is willing to challenge established practice.

· Up-to-date knowledge of techniques, best practices and statutory requirements for asset investment planning.

· Ability to communicate effectively from C-suite level through to front line operations and maintenance staff.

· Ability to support the development of technical delivery models and tools.

· Able to assess and identify opportunities to improve processes and implement improvements.

· Membership and engagement with the IAM or equivalent, staying current with advancements in the Asset Management field.

· Commitment to safe work practices, established standards and procedures, accepting responsibility for own safety as well as that of others.

· Positive/effective relationships with clients and co-workers, demonstrating focus on satisfying both internal and external customers.

· Experience with collaborating and connecting 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.

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

If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team.

Your application experience is important to us and we're keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. We welcome feedback on our recruitment process and if you need more from us before deciding to join Jacobs then please let us know.

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· Degree qualified in relevant engineering and/or Asset Management discipline.

· Enthusiastic, self-starter with an open mind who is willing to challenge established practice.

· Up-to-date knowledge of techniques, best practices and statutory requirements for asset investment planning.

· Ability to communicate effectively from C-suite level through to front line operations and maintenance staff.

· Ability to support the development of technical delivery models and tools.

· Able to assess and identify opportunities to improve processes and implement improvements.

· Membership and engagement with the IAM or equivalent, staying current with advancements in the Asset Management field.

· Commitment to safe work practices, established standards and procedures, accepting responsibility for own safety as well as that of others.

· Positive/effective relationships with clients and co-workers, demonstrating focus on satisfying both internal and external customers.

· Experience with collaborating and connecting teams.

Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow.

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., 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

If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team.

Your application experience is important to us and we're keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. We welcome feedback on our recruitment process and if you need more from us before deciding to join Jacobs then please let us know.

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.