Design Director - Water

Design Director

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The Design Director is an essential member of the Jacobs Senior Leadership team within the Water and Environment business and plays a vital role in the overall success of the project. As the Design Director, you are fundamentally accountable for the success of the design team's delivery on projects and in supporting others to meet the project's objectives.

Investment in the UK & Ireland Water sector is at unprecedented levels. We have a huge opportunity to build and shape the delivery of this investment through growing strategic relationships with the largest UK & Ireland water companies. From feasibility studies and planning, to design, construction management, operations and maintenance; we bring together the talent and expertise necessary to deliver success and we are proud of our extensive portfolio of work and broad capability.

These large portfolios of work require experienced leaders. Within our Water and Environment Operating Unit, we have an opportunity for a highly experienced Design Director, to lead the design on large strategic portfolios of work. This immediate opportunity is focused on the delivery of design outputs at Salford Waste Water Treatment Works.

You will be expected to take overall responsibility for engineering solutions which match project outcomes and quality of delivery through the life cycle of projects, during design, construction and commissioning. And take overall responsibility for technical standards, specifications, innovation and technology. Provide a physical engineering and technical presence and act as the backstop for engineering and technical escalations and decisions.

You will be expected to be visible (both virtually and in person), approachable, collaborative and lead on the integration of your team with the wider project. The successful candidate's base office for this role will be the Jacobs Manchester office.

This role will require a continued presence based on site at Salford Waste Water Treatment Works, working collaboratively with the Construction team. Our clients' offices are in Warrington and Jacobs have design offices supporting the Salford project in Scotland (Glasgow), Ireland (Belfast) and Poland (Krakow), whereby travel to these offices is likely to be required.

Responsibilities:

• Showing exemplary behaviour in personal and team health, safety and wellbeing management in accordance with our BeyondZero approach.
• Being a primary contact for our clients, effectively managing stakeholders, delivering client satisfaction, and dealing with escalations as they arise.
• Building and growing our teams, through our office leads, delivery leads and design managers, driving recruitment and resourcing supporting growth.
• Bringing innovation to the function, reaching back into our extensive organization, identifying and deploying our capability to maximize client value.
• Taking accountability and ownership for time, cost and quality of project outcomes.
• Continue to develop our relationship-based growth model, by fostering relationships with our existing water clients.

Here's What You'll Need:

• This strategic role requires the candidate to be a Chartered Engineer, with extensive experience working within the Water & Wastewater industry specifically.
• The candidate will possess extensive knowledge skills and experience of multidiscipline engineering fields, design and construction.
• Proven capability in Project Management & Design Management on large capital investment non-infrastructure projects and managing projects and programmes through implementation, outline and detailed design phases.

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