Lead Structural Engineer - Life Sciences

Jacobs; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Hybrid working policy

Job summary

Jacobs in Ireland invites a lead structural engineer to join our design teams, delivering complex industrial projects. You will supervise and direct engineers and designers, ensuring timely delivery of structural deliverables within budget and quality targets.

You will provide technical guidance, coordinate activity schedules, mentor staff, and work with clients to align design with expectations, while supporting a hybrid working model and a strong focus on safety and inclusion.

Qualifications

• Must have strong leadership and communication skills.
• Experience leading teams of engineers and designers.
• Chartered engineer and degree in civil/structural engineering are required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise a team of engineers and designers to deliver structural deliverables on time and within budget.
• Provide technical direction and act as a specialist on complex assignments.
• Coordinate schedules, monitor progress, and ensure quality across projects.

Skills

Leadership

Technical guidance

Education

BSc or MSc in Civil / Structural Engineering

Chartered engineer

Job description

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

As the largest professional services provider to the biopharmaceutical industry, clients benefit from both our local presence and global reach. We offer a full range of design and construction services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies worldwide, with a complete focus on providing maximum value for our clients.

Key Responsibilities

You will generally be responsible for supervision and technical direction over a team of engineers and designers when functioning as a lead engineer. As lead engineer, you will be responsible for total delivery of the structural deliverables and services on time, within performance budget and meeting quality expectations. Duties may include performing advanced engineering work serving as a technical specialist for a complex engineering assignment. Work at this level requires extensive progressive experience in structural engineering and involves utilisation of project controls for cost, schedule and quality of projects.

Overall Expectations

• Actively cooperate with members of your project task force, client personnel and members of your department, as appropriate
• Provide leadership within your project team and give technical guidance as required
• Coordinate the activities of the structural team working under your direction
• Agree a schedule of design activities and package dates with the project team
• Understand client expectations, as determined by the team, and constantly strive to achieve or better these
• Meet commitments that you make to the client, individually or as a team, to complete work by certain dates or within agreed man‑hour or cost budgets

Here’s what you’ll need

• BSc or MSc in Civil / Structural Engineering
• Chartered engineer

Ideally, you will also have

• Knowledge and application of Eurocode, BSI and Irish design standards and codes
• Knowledge and application of the Irish Building Regs
• Knowledgeable of the discipline specific methods, practices and techniques required to engineer, design and construct process and manufacturing projects
• Experienced in estimating and scheduling professional service hours and assessing the progress and quality of civil/structural work
• Experience of large industrial type projects

Skills

• Good listening, writing, communications and conflict resolution skills
• Able to lead teams to deliver on commitments

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements and a hybrid working policy, well‑being benefits, a global giving and volunteering programme, and a focus on safety, flexibility and inclusion.

As a disability confident employer, we will interview disabled candidates who best meet the criteria. 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, please contact the team via Careers Support.