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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 work using a hybrid model and we’re happy to discuss flexible working hours and patterns to suit you and our business.

This role will be based in our Stevenage office, working alongside our Local Authority client.

About the opportunity

We are seeking an Engineer with knowledge in drainage and particular experience in highway drainage design. You’ll join a team that has a reputation in the UK Transportation consultancy sector as a result of a growing portfolio of Local Authority work.

As part of a global drainage delivery team, you will play a key role in delivering transportation drainage design services, focussed on the needs of Local Authority projects.

Responsibilities:

• Providing deliverables and solutions to drainage elements on schemes and problems

• Production and review of feasibility studies, technical reports, detailed designs and production of contract documents across a variety of projects

• Reporting of progress

• Liaising with clients, stakeholders and other disciplines with support and assistance of your reporting manager

• Help seek innovative solutions in achieving best value in delivering our services;

• Assist in the estimation of works costs and bidding of new works

• Support to undertake CDM responsibilities under role of Designer.

• Report on progress on a regular basis and forecast progress and costs including preparation of designs, reports, specifications, and other deliverables for their schemes.

• Ensure Jacobs quality systems are being actively employed.

• A degree in Civil Engineering or similar discipline

• Membership of an appropriate professional institution and working towards Chartered or Incorporated status

• Knowledge of H&S legislation

• Ability using drainage modelling software and tools

• Experience of delivering at variety of scheme stages for drainage and/or transportation projects

• Confident with proven interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to produce accurate and well written reports

• Understanding of DMRB, SuDS Manual and other standards and areas not covered by standards in related to area of expertise.

• Proven experience in design of highway drainage systems and construction of highway drainage schemes (preferred)

• Ability to develop relationships and trust at all levels of the organisation and with Clients.

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.

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