Graduate Project Engineer 2021

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Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow.

Our Critical Mission Solutions business – we are invested in you and your success. Everything we do – whether Aerospace, Defence, Intelligence, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Nuclear, Automotive, or Telecommunications – is more than just a project. It is our challenge as human beings, too. That is why we bring a thoughtful and collaborative approach to every one of our partnerships.

It is our promise to challenge the status quo as we redefine how to solve the world's greatest challenges and transform big ideas into intelligent solutions for a more connected, sustainable world.

About the opportunity

Jacobs are recruiting for a Graduate Project Engineer to Join our EDF framework delivery team.  The Generation Services business team supports our key client EDF Energy Nuclear Generation with regards their nuclear fleet in the UK.  This is a key role within our Project Management Resource team which is spread across our UK network at all UK sites and stations. 

You will be part of a large client lead team at EDF’s Sizewell B Power Station location and this role will support multiple projects within their UK wide project portfolio which may include existing generation, nuclear defueling, nuclear new build and/or nuclear decommissioning.

Within the agreed Supplier Graduate development framework, the Graduate will support Project Staff in undertaking and completing specific project tasks as directed as part of their learning and development towards a substantive Project Management position.
The Graduate role will vary depending on the specific assignment undertaken but would typically involve the activities below:

• Identifying, implementing and complying with applicable technical, safety, environmental and quality standards, company procedures and policies and other relevant legislative and regulatory requirements.
• Support the Senior Project Manager/Project Manager with day to day activities required to deliver work in line with the project plan including safety, quality, schedule and cost objectives.
• Attend and facilitate Project meetings and regular progress meetings as required by the Project Manager.
• Prepare and maintain project documentation including Project Definition Document, Quality Plans and other documents as required.
• Support the process of contractor selection and contract placement.
• Carry out financial and technical appraisals of project options. Perform feasibility studies, site surveys and liaison with designers, engineers, safety case specialists and station staff as required.
• Complete assigned project management tasks ensuring that the work is conducted in a safe, timely and effective manner in line with the relevant procedures.

The role will be based at the EDF Sizewell B Power Station and will require occasional business travel to UK sites/stations. In this role you will report to the Jacobs Operations Manager, but be accountable for project delivery directly to the client.

Everyone working in our team will need the ability to obtain CTC or SC level UK security clearance.

Here’s What You’ll Need

• Typically, degree or equivalent qualification in an appropriate technical discipline.
• Evidence of basic Project Management knowledge, e.g. successful completion of AMP Project Fundamentals or equivalent, with the desire for 
• Project Management career path
• An understanding of the need for Quality within the project environment.
• Must be well versed in the use of packages such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint. 
• Leadership Competencies required

A successful applicant will be able to demonstrate experience across this and the following disciplines.

• Business Acumen:
• Challenge and Change:
• Decision Making:
• Leadership Values:
• Building Relationships:
• Leading through Teamwork:
• Open Communication:
• Developing Self and Others:
• Achievement Orientation:

Why Jacobs?

We clear the way for inventive thinking, so you have the support, means and space to deliver the boldest solutions for the extraordinary and every day. Jacobs. A world where you can. 

We clear the way for inventive thinking, so you have the support, means and space to deliver the boldest solutions for the extraordinary and every day. Jacobs. A world where you can. 

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