Associate Director

**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**

We are seeking Associate Directors to join our growing Ports team, with opportunities available across a number of locations where our teams are based.

We are an international leader in the engineering, planning, design and construction management of maritime structures, ports, harbours and coastal schemes. Our 100+ Ports & Maritime UK team is part of a wider global team with over 500 specialist maritime engineers with world class skill and experience in marine design and specification.

Our team specialises in commercial ports, bulk terminals, naval bases, breakwaters and coastal defences, dredging and reclamation, marine off-loading facilities and sea water intakes and outfalls. We support a wide range of major UK and international clients across the maritime, defence, energy and transport sectors.

This is an exciting time as we evolve our business to offer real solutions to some of the greatest challenges of moving towards net zero carbon emissions, climate resilience and efficiently developing 21st century infrastructure.

As an Associate Director you will lead multi-disciplinary project teams to implement and deliver safe technical solutions to agreed standards, on-time, and within budget. You will have established your reputation for the highest standards of service and technical delivery across a broad range of major projects.

If you would like to be part of a premier international consultancy and want to learn from the very best in the industry, please get in touch

**Here’s What You’ll Need**:

- Chartered Civil or Structural Engineer (or other relevant professional qualification)
- Experience of design of maritime structures
- Excellent verbal and written communication, and report writing skills
- Thorough attention to detail and an ability to establish and meet deadlines/budgets.
- Excellent organisational, management and research skills with the ability to develop multiple projects at a time, with a good commercial understanding
- Demonstrated ability to develop projects and preparation of project deliverables, including managing quality, budget, programme and resources.

**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.

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