Head of Programme

6 months ago

Reading, United Kingdom Jacobs Full time

**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, 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 part of our new Delivery Structure, we are actively looking for a Head of Programme to manage and oversee the successful operational delivery of full lifecycle of projects in one of the Control Accounts on the Non-Nuclear Engineering Partner to AWE. The scope includes mechanical, electrical, and civil engineering with individual Jobs, Tasks and Projects ranging from hundreds to several million pounds. You will be expected to work seamlessly and collaboratively with the customer & wider Jacobs managing both on and off-site teams on the Framework.

**Key Responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to: -**
- Driving an integrated, collaborative and solutions driven culture, ensuring the successful planning, management, execution and close out of all projects delivered within the Control Account.
- Accountable for performance of Health and Safety, Quality and overall performance of the control account, providing strong leadership and development of the integrated team in line with NNEP vision and values.
- End to end responsibility for the project life cycle deliverables including engineering, procurement and construction, commissioning an handover for identified control accounts. Working closely with the Front-End Development team, owning responsibility for the growth on the framework and achieving/exceeding our planned targets.
- To develop and maintain excellent client relationships to ensure successful delivery of projects in line with the NNEP vision and values. To proactively seek opportunities to grow the Account and the team delivering the work.
- To closely support the proposals team and take ownership of the bidding process to ensure that estimates are completed and submitted in a timely manner while complying with all internal governance procedures.
- To develop a Delivery Plan for the Control Account that drives successful outcomes for schedule, cost, risk, and opportunity. To critically analyse data and maintain project portfolio performance in collaboration with the PMO.
- To ensure framework commercial and contract governance, leading Project Board meetings for the account, and holding people to account on delivery of associated activities relating to the successful delivery of the projects and wider account and ensuring that our Key Performance Indicators are achieved.

**Here’s What You’ll Need**: Essential Qualifications & Experience**:

- Demonstrable experience of delivering complex construction projects and programmes.
- Good understanding of working in highly regulated environment.
- Experience of leading a team through design and build projects while working on two stage NEC4 ECC contracts.
- Significant experience in a wide variety of Operational team.
- Experienced at operating in senior business roles, both in operations and a functional appreciation.

**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, One World, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s

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