Lead Engineer - Highways

Lead Engineer Highways

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.

At Jacobs, we push the limits of what's possible to make the world smarter, more connected and more sustainable. In our Infrastructure Sector, that means designing innovative solutions to move people and goods safely and efficiently across the globe. When it comes to connecting the people and places of tomorrow, the future of transport depends on us.

The Infrastructure Sector includes a portfolio of high-profile projects that include international, national, and regional clients, contractors and various Local Authorities. Jacobs Highways team provides comprehensive consultancy and engineering services to the highways sector, covering the full spectrum of highway 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.

Here's What You Need:

• Motivated and experienced Road Design Engineers who can utilise their strong technical and project management skills to deliver highways-related infrastructure projects.
• As a Senior member of the high performing team, you will be given the opportunity to lead project teams and contribute your expertise to world-class projects, developing technical designs and delivery models for various highway upgrades, rural roads and urban roads projects.
• This role will see you working with multi-disciplined engineers and designers in a fast-paced environment whilst supporting a strong pipeline of existing projects, ranging in size and scope, as well as working on several major pursuits in order to continue the projected growth of our business.

Responsibilities:

• Technical competence in detailed highways geometry design using Civil 3D/Open Road Designer and able to independently deliver work and integrate with larger project team.
• Responsible to lead the multi-disciplinary project delivery and able to perform as design manager.
• Clear knowledge of work procedures, and ability to brief project team on them and responsible for completion of projects to time and cost.
• Assists in the leadership of functional teams or projects.
• Communicating with counterpart in lead office/Client and Coordinate with multi-disciplinary teams on project delivery.
• Able to realistically estimate pricing associated with projects within their area of expertise.
• Self-discipline and able to manage own daily work allocation as well as team members

Reporting: Engineering Manager/Discipline Lead

Qualifications & Skills:

• BE Degree in Civil Engineering /Post-Graduation in Transportation/Highway Engineering.
• 10+ years' experience in highway engineering design.

Key Competency – Technical Skills:

• Understanding of engineering standards (DMRB/AASHTO/Australian/Middle East), codes of practice, local authorities' guidelines and offer new ideas to improve solutions and processes.
• Lead Functional teams or Projects.
• Able to author competent technical reports of acceptable technical and presentational quality.
• Interprets internal or external business issues and recommends best practices.
• Develop broad technical competence and able to check work of all those in the project team.

Key Competency – Soft Skills:

• Minimum 10 years of proven highway design experience with software proficiency in Open Roads Designer or Civil3D.
• Proficient in AutoCAD or MicroStation, PDS Signs, PDS Lines, Auto Track, MS Word, and MS Excel.
• Working knowledge of CDE platform (Common Data Environment) i.e., ProjectWise, ACC or BIM360.

At Jacobs we value people. Having the right balance of belonging, career and lifestyle enables us to consistently deliver and exceed clients' expectations. Working alongside industry leaders, you will have the opportunity to develop your career working on key projects in an environment which encourages collaboration, knowledge sharing and innovation. To support your professional growth, Jacobs flexible working arrangements, extended leave options and a host of social, health and wellbeing events and initiatives will underpin our commitment to you. At Jacobs it's all about what you do, not where you are, which counts! We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work. Your application experience is important to us, and we're keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team.