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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
As Cities & Places, we create thriving places across different scales: from regions to cities, neighbourhoods to individual buildings, by offering an integrated design approach. We have a tremendous opportunity in front of us to build upon strength to develop an interdisciplinary planning, design and delivery practice that is uniquely Jacobs, that sets the direction for the industry, and is home to the very best and brightest design thinkers, disruptors, technical experts, visionaries and storytellers.
Our business unit brings together engineers, architects, surveyors, urban designers, project managers and transport planners to provide collaborative and coordinated value design solutions for our clients both nationally and internationally.
Due to our expanding portfolio of design projects and long-term framework expansion, we have an exciting opportunity for an Architect to join our Architectural design team. We are looking for an individual who is looking to further develop their existing Architectural design experience within the Buildings sector to be based in our Birmingham, Manchester or London Office.
Cities and Places deliver exciting and challenging projects across a broad range of sectors including transport infrastructure, defence, education, research and technology. This opportunity is for an Architect or Senior Architect with strong design skills to provide design delivery and discipline integration of architectural design into projects delivered by the Cities and Places business.
Responsibilities:
A key enabler behind our growth and work winning strategy is the development of the Architecture team in the UK. To support this strategic objective Cities and Places are recruiting a number of engineering and architectural professionals to work within our design teams in the UK and be an integral part of delivering high-value solutions to our clients.
We are looking for a Principal Architect/Associate Director to join our business unit in the Cities & Places UK Architecture team. With work across the UK and Europe, you will work alongside our Architects within a multi-disciplinary design team set-up, delivering design solutions across multiple sectors from Public sector, Defence, Transportation, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing and Mixed-Use development. You will be required to lead design teams and to manage the Architectural delivery on a range of projects.
We deliver projects across all stages of the building design and construction process from initial strategic briefing, where client objectives and feasibility studies are undertaken; through to development of conceptual and technical proposals, to construction phase delivery.
Key requirements for this role are strong design skills, strong communication skills with a collaborative working and positive, can-do attitude. Strong project leadership and technical skills with the ability to control all aspects of project delivery. Strong design coordination and collaboration skills with the ability to work and assume a key role within multi-disciplinary design team are an essential aspect of this role. You will need to be able to work independently and take design responsibility for decision-making and output deliverables within your project team.
As a project leader in the Architectural design team, you will play a crucial role in the promoting of effective working methods across projects and offices, establishing high value architectural solutions and engaging with the Jacobs team at all levels to promote the efficient delivery of architectural design.
Here's What You'll Need:
Qualified Architect in the UK with professional registration
Professional experience in delivering complex multi-disciplinary design and construction projects
Degree in Architecture and/or Urban Design
MA or MSc higher education qualification to RIBA Part 3
Knowledge of BIM based delivery including Autodesk Revit
Strong Design Drawing and written communication skills
Advanced English language skills
Ability to lead Architectural teams on large Multi-Disciplinary design projects
Strong Inter-disciplinary design coordination
Strong problem solving, attention to detail, with a desire to come up with practical solutions
Highly self-motivated with ability to work unsupervised
Team player able to provide leadership and direction to project teams
Proactive working mindset with flexible-working approach - able to work on a wide range of design projects
Knowledge of Revit and software platforms and tools including BIM 360, NBS Specification
Experience of working collaboratively with clients and managing positive client relationships
Knowledge of multiple design sectors including complex infrastructure projects
Ability to travel within the UK and Europe to periodically to support project delivery
Experience of preparing bids and Proposals
Our Culture
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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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Primary Location
Primary Location : United Kingdom-United Kingdom Countrywide-London-UK London - Cottons Lane
Other LocationsOther Locations : United Kingdom-United Kingdom Countrywide-Birmingham-UK Birmingham - Colmore Square, United Kingdom-United Kingdom Countrywide-Manchester-UK Manchester First Street
Job PostingJob Posting : Jan 25, 2024, 2:19:54 PM
JobJob : Drafting/Design
OrganizationOrganization : PPS
Job TypeJob Type : Experienced
Work LocationsWork Locations : UK London - Cottons Lane Jacobs, 2nd Floor, Cottons Centre Cottons Lane London SE1 2QG
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