Operations Manager

TN United Kingdom; Barton-upon-Humber; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Operations Manager to lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team at their Humber Facility. This role offers a unique opportunity to drive innovation and change across various projects in the UK. The successful candidate will manage a team of Project Managers, Designers, and Engineers, ensuring operational compliance and delivering high-quality results. With a focus on work-life balance and flexibility, this position provides a chance to be part of a respected team dedicated to engineering excellence and client satisfaction.

Benefits

Free medical cover

Enhanced parental leave pay

Employee assistance programs

Professional development reimbursement

Paid volunteering time

Charitable donations matching

Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years’ experience in engineering or management roles.
• Chartered or working towards a registered body.

Responsibilities

• Manage operational teams to meet client needs and deliverables.
• Develop relationships with clients and stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Project Management

Engineering Expertise

Interpersonal Skills

Compliance Management

Education

Degree in Engineering

Degree in Project Management

Job description

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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, 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, and flexible working hours, patterns, and locations to suit you and our business.

About the Opportunity:

Due to growth in the current portfolio within National Operations of Enterprise Asset Solutions, we have an exciting opportunity for an Operations Manager to lead a multi disciplined engineering team here at the Humber Facility across a number of existing and new Projects around the country. The role allows you to join our client facing team managing the operational delivery of numerous schemes from their conceptual phase into detailed design, manufacture, and implementation onto site. Being part of that team offers a unique opportunity to drive change and innovation in engineering, safety and delivery solutions supporting value engineering.

The successful candidate will become part of a respected and ambitious team working from our Humber Facility, within EAS, to support the growth and sustainability of the performance unit moving forward. Jacobs EAS are offering a truly fantastic opportunity which will allow the successful individuals to be involved across multiple client sectors around the UK supporting this critical principal engineering role.

The role will consist of working alongside our Senior Management team both locally and nationally to develop relationships across diverse client sectors whilst ensuring operational compliance on various project schemes in accordance with British Standards and Client specifications. Reporting directly to the Operations Director at the Humber Facility.

Managing a team of Project Manager, Designers and Engineers along with graduates to ensure deliverables are achieved efficiently and effectively, safely and to the quality expected from a professional organisation. Our team of multi-disciplinary experts are seeking a driven professional who will utilise their engineering expertise to innovate design and engineering across various diverse projects in the UK.

Essential Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree in Engineering or Project Management;
• Minimum 15 years’ experience related to an engineering or management role;
• Chartered or working towards a registered body;
• IOSH or NEBOSH accredited;
• Good interpersonal skills and a willingness to work with people at all levels of an organization;
• Experience of leading Multi disciplined Management and Engineering teams;
• Ability to effectively interface with all levels of personnel and management;
• UK Citizenship.

Here's What You'll Need:

• Responsible and accountable for project services to clients for effective compliance, safety, quality and cost levels to assure profitability ratios;
• Management and leadership of Operational teams to interpret and meet client needs and deliverables;
• Develop relationships and effectively liaise with clients and stakeholders;
• Capability to manage multiple assignments simultaneously;
• Collaborate with multi-discipline teams across various UK office locations;
• Ability to work on own initiative;
• Mentor Graduate Engineers;
• Participate in developing the growth of the team and wider Jacobs’s growth strategies.