Programme Manager (Manchester)

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:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Programme Manager to join our growing team for managing projects and programmes and delivering excellence to our client from conception to the delivery of challenging programmes. The successful candidate will become part of a respected and ambitious company's contribution to an integrated project team venture engaged in the whole-life development and implementation of infrastructure improvements across the site.
The successful candidate will be flexible, knowledgeable, and willing and able to lead a large team in delivery of the projects and programmes. The project could be a standalone complex initiative or part of a large programme designed to deliver benefit to the client by delivering value for money and excellence.

Here's what you'll need:

Qualifications:

• Degree qualified in appropriate engineering or management subject and membership of a relevant professional body such as the APM or an engineering institution is preferred.


Knowledge:

• Understanding and experience of project and programme management, leadership and delivery of complex programmes and projects;


• Experience of managing projects from design to delivery/commission and handover processes and their governance and stage gates;


• Awareness of UK Health and Safety Legislation.


Skills:

• Superior interpersonal and leadership skills are required to enable effective interaction with clients, seniors and peers while working in a collaborative "Team" environment and able to build and maintain effective internal and external working relationships;


• Strong organisational skills, attention to detail and quality are required along with a process improvement-oriented mindset;


• Capable of effective multi-task working, identifying and managing priorities and working to challenging time scales.


Experience:

• Evidence of experience of delivering large and complex projects, programmes or portfolios within a highly regulated and complex environment;


• Experience of managing cross-functional teams in a highly regulated environment;


• Candidates should be a UK National with SC level Security clearance and/or an ability and willingness to be enhanced.


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 www.vercida.com 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
If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team.

Your application experience is important to us and we're keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. We welcome feedback on our recruitment process and if you need more from us before deciding to join Jacobs then please let us know.


• Degree qualified in appropriate engineering or management subject and membership of a relevant professional body such as the APM or an engineering institution is preferred.


Knowledge:

• Understanding and experience of project and programme management, leadership and delivery of complex programmes and projects;


• Experience of managing projects from design to delivery/commission and handover processes and their governance and stage gates;


• Awareness of UK Health and Safety Legislation.


Skills:

• Superior interpersonal and leadership skills are required to enable effective interaction with clients, seniors and peers while working in a collaborative "Team" environment and able to build and maintain effective internal and external working relationships;


• Strong organisational skills, attention to detail and quality are required along with a process improvement-oriented mindset;


• Capable of effective multi-task working, identifying and managing priorities and working to challenging time scales.


Experience:

• Evidence of experience of delivering large and complex projects, programmes or portfolios within a highly regulated and complex environment;


• Experience of managing cross-functional teams in a highly regulated environment;


• Candidates should be a UK National with SC level Security clearance and/or an ability and willingness to be enhanced.
  
  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., 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 www.vercida.com 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
If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team.

Your application experience is important to us and we're keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. We welcome feedback on our recruitment process and if you need more from us before deciding to join Jacobs then please let us know.

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.