Location
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Capabilities
Project Management
Office Setup
Hybrid
Job ID
#42099
Industry
Transportation
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Your impact
Jacobs Transportation has an enviable reputation in Highways, Rail and Aviation. The Transportation Europe and UK infrastructure consultancy sector contains a portfolio of high-profile projects with national Client organisations, national and regional contractors, and various Local Authorities. Our Transportation team provides comprehensive consultancy and engineering services to the Transportation sector, covering the full spectrum of Highways, Rail and Aviation infrastructure requirements, from business case and project development, preliminary appraisal and feasibility studies through to detailed design, implementation, operational management advice, and operations and maintenance.
Jacobs are looking for Solution Managers (SMs) who will technically lead and manage the provision of consultancy services to major clients in the Transportation sector delivering a range of multi-disciplinary projects in Europe, the UK, Europe and across the globe. SMs are accountable for all aspects of the day-to-day engineering and technical delivery of work on specific projects. They support the technical interface between the Project and the engineering and technical disciplines, providing direction, guidance, and support as required.
The SM is responsible for delivering a safe design, ensuring the scope is well-defined, and that there is a clear understanding of the project schedule and the budget for each activity to be carried out by each discipline. The SM ensures that individual design disciplines are functioning as an integrated team and that the technical output is fully coordinated. The SM also monitors the outputs from the disciplines to ensure that they cover all aspects of the scope and are consistent with each other.
About the opportunity
As a Solution Manager within our Transportation business, you will undertake a key role in delivering our clients’ requirements. Working closely with the Project Manager you will be the controlling mind over the engineering and technical delivery across all aspects. As an individual we would look to you to show experience in leadership, delivery performance, excellent communication skills combined with being a team player. The knowledge, skills and experience we value are varied as we continue to develop diverse teams.
You will help to foster a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement, demonstrating adaptability and commitment to supporting others across the team in delivering a high-quality service. Your leadership of a team of diverse individuals will actively encourage new ways of thinking to provide an agile delivery environment.
In delivery you should understand your clients’ requirements and the impacts of the success factors of the project, developing a schedule and delivery plan to ensure success. You’ll provide a proactive risk identification and mitigation environment that allows for innovation and creative delivery. You’ll have a track record of successfully delivering complex multi-disciplinary projects within budget and on schedule, whilst maintaining the highest of safe working cultures within project teams.
As the technical leader and member of the project team you should have excellent communication skills, allowing you to maintain relationships with your client, your team and the Jacobs organisation. You will communicate progress, potential issues and risks to inform and proposed mitigation to your client, the Project Manager, and internally.
Together with the Project Manager you’ll control budgets for projects, escalation points, key milestones and targets including time, cost, quality and safety to ensure that objectives are achieved in line with programme plans.
Key Responsibilities:
Accountable for delivering a safe design.
Accountable for delivering a sustainable design that supports decarbonisation and improves social value.
Accountable for integrating the delivery team, design coordination, quality and ensuring the technical solutions meet the scope.
Accountable for technical delivery to programme.
Responsible for assisting discipline leads and the project management team in managing budget and forecasting.
Actively listen across all disciplines, both engineering and technical, to make balanced decisions through reasoning and open discussion.
Champion the consistent use of Jacobs delivery tools/processes which ensure that all parties have an agreed understanding of the project and their part within it.
Implement improvement measures and share good practice.
Here's what you'll need
Lead and guide others in implementation of relevant standards.
Undertake Design Manager role on transportation projects.
Experience in the delivery of multi-disciplinary projects where engineering and technical disciplines all had an equal part to play.
Apply relevant assurance processes when working on civil engineering projects.
Apply engineering principles to develop innovative, robust and safe design.
Take account of the priorities of projects, effectively plan, monitor and control the technical delivery of projects to clients.
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