HSE in Design Professional (Jacobs)

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

The HSE in Design Professional plays a proactive, visible and diligent role during all aspects of Engineering & Design work to ensure that the teams are meeting the intent of HSE in Design Best Practice, local work instructions, and legislative requirements. The HSE in Design Professional is the safety conscious of the design and sets the tone and culture for design HSE on the project. The HSE in Design Professional is expected to challenge the norm and encourage innovation across the design process to make our designs even safer through the lifecycle of the project seeking to eliminate and mitigate hazards which arise during construction, use, operation and maintenance, future renovation and eventual demolition of the facility, plant or infrastructure.

Responsibilities

The role relies on HSE in Design Professional having appropriate experience and knowledge of engineering design, construction and health and safety to be able to undertake the following tasks:

• Advise team on HSE in Design requirements and local H&S legislation with respect to design
• Review Design Input Statements (as appropriate) to gather information on design scope, Client Requirements (with respect to design H&S), key assumptions and limitations, standards, codes and regulations to which designs are being carried out and key interfaces.
• Proactively support and facilitate competency assessment of internal teams and Contractors / Subcontractors
• Ensuring coordination between multi-disciplinary design teams
• Coordinate with external designers including temporary works designers
• Ensure a Risk Register is created and maintained where all of the hazards identified by the designers and the HSE Design Professional will be recorded, and the design decisions and mitigation measures identified for each hazard will be recorded;
• Input/organisation of HSE in design reviews. Prepare HSE Workshop Reports and Design Gateway Statements;
• Ensuring coordination between key stakeholders such as constructor, operator, maintainer, client etc and in particular ensure communicate key risk information to stakeholders
• Undertake site visits where required to understand specific site issues;
• Undertake additional tasks as required for local H&S legislation
• Share the successes and lessons learned within the HSE in Design community.

Here’s What You’ll Need:

Essential Qualifications / Competencies

Chartered Engineer (civil, mechanical, electrical, structural, building, building services)

• CMIOSH, ICE H&S Register, RMaPS or similar
• Relevant experience in one of more of the following;
  • Utilities
  • Mechanical and Electrical
  • Heavy civil engineering / earthworks
  • Highways and related infrastructure
  • Power Networks
• Proven capability to influence designer and contractors and client stakeholders
• Confidence and credibility in own expertise
• High level of written and verbal communication skills
• Highly developed inter-personal skills – team player

Desirable

• Major Construction / Engineering project experience in the UK
• Experience in working with Behavioural Safety Initiatives