Associate Director of Design Management - Highways - Dublin & Cork
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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
As a Design Manager within our Transportation business, you will undertake a key role in delivering our clients’ requirements. Working closely with the Project Manager you will be the controlling mind over the engineering and technical delivery across all aspects. As an individual we would look to you to show experience in leadership, delivery performance, excellent communication skills combined with being a team player. The knowledge, skills and experience we value are varied as we continue to develop diverse teams.
You will help to foster a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement, demonstrating adaptability and commitment to supporting others across the team in delivering a high-quality service. Your leadership of a team of diverse individuals will actively encourage new ways of thinking to provide an agile delivery environment.
In delivery you should understand your clients’ requirements and the impacts of the success factors of the project, developing a schedule and delivery plan to ensure success. You’ll provide a proactive risk identification and mitigation environment that allows for innovation and creative delivery. You’ll have a track record of successfully delivering complex multi-disciplinary projects within budget and on schedule, whilst maintaining the highest of safe working cultures within project teams.
As the technical leader and member of the project team you should have excellent communication skills, allowing you to maintain relationships with your client, your team and the Jacobs organisation. You will communicate progress, potential issues and risks to inform and proposed mitigation to your client, the Project Manager, and internally.
Together with the Project Manager you’ll control budgets for projects, escalation points, key milestones and targets including time, cost, quality and safety to ensure that objectives are achieved in line with programme plans.
Key Responsibilities
* Accountable for delivering a safe& sustainable design that supports decarbonisation and improves social value.
* Accountable for integrating the delivery team, design coordination, quality and ensuring the technical solutions meet the scope and technical delivery to programme.
* Responsible for assisting discipline leads and the project management team in managing budget and forecasting.
* Actively listen across all disciplines, both engineering and technical, to make balanced decisions through reasoning and open discussion.
* Champion the consistent use of Jacobs delivery tools/processes which ensure that all parties have an agreed understanding of the project and their part within it and a culture of getting design and delivery right first time.
* Encourage unconventional thinking and drive innovative solutions. - Drive continual improvement of our deliverables by using digital delivery tools, Lessons Learned from other projects, and Clients’ feedback.
* Implement improvement measures and share good practice. - Technically support Business Development opportunities across Ireland
* Help to maintain a highly motivated team with specific attention to safety and well-being.
* Lead in line with our inclusion and diversity policies so that individuals and teams can develop their full potential.
About The Opportunity
Jacobs Transportation has an enviable reputation in Highways, Rail and Aviation. Our Highways team provides comprehensive consultancy and engineering services to the highways sector, covering the full spectrum of highway infrastructure requirements, from business case and project development, preliminary appraisal and feasibility studies through to detailed design, implementation, operational management advice, and operations and maintenance.
Jacobs are looking for a Design Managers who will technically lead and manage the provision of consultancy services to major clients in the Transportation sector delivering a range of multi-disciplinary projects in Ireland, Europe and across the globe. Design Managers are accountable for all aspects of the day-to-day engineering and technical delivery of work on specific projects. They support the technical interface between the Project and the engineering and technical disciplines, providing direction, guidance, and support as required. The DM is responsible for delivering a safe design, ensuring the scope is well-defined, and that there is a clear understanding of the project schedule and the budget for each activity to be carried out by each discipline. Ensures that individual design disciplines are functioning as an integrated team and that the technical output is fully coordinated.
This role provides a fantastic career opportunity, whilst developing your potential, skills, and experience under the guidance and mentorship of our industry-recognised senior team.
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
You will preferably have a Bachelors or Masters Degree (or equivalent Degree) with proven design management experience gained across a range of infrastructure projects in a multi-disciplinary environment. It is desirable to be a member of a relevant professional institution with a sound understanding of design management principles and application in a highways or civil engineering environment. You will have the ability to
Lead and guide others in implementation of relevant standards.
* Undertake Design Manager role on highways projects.
* Experience in the delivery of multi-disciplinary projects where engineering and technical disciplines all had an equal part to play.
* Apply relevant assurance processes when working on civil engineering projects.
* Apply engineering principles to develop innovative, robust and safe design.
* Take account of the priorities of projects, effectively plan, monitor and control the technical delivery of projects to clients.
* Understand the factors affecting motivation of project team members.
* Excellent organisation skills and an ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines.
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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Seniority level
* Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
* Industries
Civil Engineering, Design Services, and IT Services and IT Consulting
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