Senior Process Engineer

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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 delivers a wide range of solutions, across a variety of clients and business sectors through the full project lifecycle from feasibility to commissioning. Our history in working in diverse sectors, particularly in highly regulated industries such as nuclear and chemicals are helping us to develop solutions in challenging environments and to support the focus on clean energy. We have passion to deliver solutions to our clients that are supporting the energy transition through current projects in green hydrogen, fusion technology, carbon capture and utilisation, and nuclear.

As a result of an increasing portfolio of projects, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Process Engineer to join our in either, Stockton, Birchwood, Westlakes or Winnersh.

You will be responsible for taking a leading role in the process design development for our projects, and will report to one of our Process Engineering Leads who will provide you with support and guidance in the role. You will work within a multi-discipline team to deliver the process design which typically includes key process engineering activities, process safety assessments, and participation in HAZOPs and design reviews.

Responsibilities will include;

• Leading functional input to own projects, including, where relevant, leading the input of other engineers to ensure engineering delivery meets scope, time, cost and quality
• Adaptable Process Engineering experience, and ability to use transferable skills across a wide range of projects and industries, supported by our experienced multi-discipline engineering team.
• Proactively generate value adding options within projects to offer to clients
• Plan and prioritise own work and that of more junior staff so that deadlines are met
• Provide functional support and guidance to more junior staff to develop them as individuals and the capability of the team as a whole
• Carry out commissioning activities at client site as required, to ensure successful engineering handover.
• Recognise and address potential and actual cross-discipline issues and conflicts so that overall engineering input to a project is coherent

Here’s What You’ll Need

• Degree qualified in Chemical Engineering or equivalent
• Strong analytical, communication, and leadership skills
• Self-motivated with the ability to work collaboratively and independently
• Chartered Engineer status with a recognised professional body (e.g. IChemE) - preferred
• 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.

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