Assistant Project Manager

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 and 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, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business

About the Opportunity
This position offers a unique, diverse, and exciting range of opportunities to support our offering across our BAE Systems Framework. You will support senior project manager across the framework predominantly based in Barrow-in-Furness, to ensure smooth client engagement across several BAE Systems projects. You will be part of a dedicated team responsible for maintaining and growing our offering to the client.

Key deliverables:

• Job holder is part of a team that ensures delivery of quality and engineering systems are appropriate and always maintained.
• Works under the general supervision of more senior project personnel on a project
• Diverse and flexible supporting the project deliverables when required.
• Contribute to Jacobs HSE and quality guidelines.
• Draft reports are reviewed by supervisor prior to issue.

• Project management qualified or relatable experience in a similiar setting
• Experience of continuous improvement tools and techniques
• Able to interact and influence at all levels in the organisation and in Clients/Third party organisations.
• Local knowledge of the surrounding environment is preferred.
• Higher level of security clearance is required to be instigated.
• Knowledge of scheduling activities and progress reporting.
• Resource Management.

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs..

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity – ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s –find out more about our employee networks here..

Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role
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