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Wokingham, Berkshire Jacobs
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

Our Intelligent Engineering Solutions Business is recruiting for adaptable, forward thinking Principal Process Engineers to join our process engineering capability in support of an increasing portfolio of projects. Our projects cover the full project lifecycle from small feasibility studies to commissioning on major projects and frameworks and everything in between. We deliver first class designs as part of multidiscipline teams across our diverse portfolio of projects covering topics such as:
  • advanced modular reactors
  • nuclear decommissioning
  • defence
  • fusion technology
  • green hydrogen
  • chemicals

To meet our desire to support the clean energy transition alongside the needs of our clients to develop solutions in sometimes challenging environments, we utilise our knowledge and experience built across our history in across diverse sectors, particularly in highly regulated industries such as nuclear and chemicals.

As a Principal Process Engineer, you will be taking a leading role on our projects to deliver the process design elements, including but not limited to key process engineering activities, process safety assessments and leading on HAZOPs and design reviews. You will need to ensure that our quality assurance processes are followed, whilst meeting project requirements and expectations of our clients.

Your responsibilities will include:
  • Leading functional input to projects, including where relevant leading the input of other (possibly multidisciplinary) engineers and subcontractors, to ensure engineering delivery meets scope, time, cost and quality.
  • Carry out engineering calculations and check the work of more junior staff to deliver a quality functional input to projects.
  • Plan and prioritise own work and that of more junior staff so that parallel activities are all completed in a timely manner.
  • Generate and check engineering estimates and execution strategies to provide optimal solutions and eliminate errors.
  • Provide functional support and guidance to more junior staff to develop them as individuals and the capability of the team as a whole.
  • Recognise and address potential and actual cross-discipline issues and conflicts so that overall engineering input to a project is coherent.
  • Proactively generate value adding options within projects to offer to clients.
  • Support the process engineering manager in non-project-based activities such as development of procedures, resource planning, establishing policy, budgeting, recruitment etc, to support the drive to continuously improve and optimise the operation of the department


Here's What You'll Need:

  • Degree qualified in Chemical Engineering or equivalent.
  • Chartered Engineer status with a recognised professional body (e.g. IChemE)
  • Proven track record of leading process delivery on projects to meet deadlines and high-quality standards.
  • Adaptable Process Engineering experience, and ability to use transferable skills across a wide range of projects and industries.
  • Strong analytical, communication, and leadership skills
  • Self-motivated with the ability to work collaboratively and independently.
  • A good knowledge of Process Design Health, Safety and Environmental (DHSE) issues and knowledge of key regulations (e.g. DSEAR, CDM, COMAH) is preferable.
  • Experience of working in highly regulated environments would be advantageous
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 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

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