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

About the Opportunity

Jacobs Energy Security & Technology business has over fifty years of experience across the complete nuclear asset lifecycle, from managing existing facilities or closing a legacy asset, to helping build next-generation nuclear systems. Our team also offers an extensive range of capabilities to defence agencies, supporting operational mission planning and execution, acquisition and logistics management, information technology and business operations. We're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Reporting to the ES&T International, Senior Director of HSSE, the role sits within the HSSE central function and is responsible for the development, management, and promotion of the Environmental Management System (EMS) and Energy Management System (EnMS) which are certified to ISO14001 and ISO50001, respectively.

In this role you'll be supporting the business in meeting its environmental and sustainability requirements aligned with the business strategy and operating procedures. The position holder must have an in-depth knowledge and understanding of UK environmental and energy legislation (e.g. waste/Duty of Care regulations, F-gas regulations, environmental permitting requirements, Energy Performance of Buildings regulations) and external reporting requirements including ESOS, SECR and PPN 06/21 Carbon Reduction Plans and a working knowledge at a European level (e.g. Waste Framework Directive, Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, Energy Efficiency Directive, Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive etc).

This role requires good collaboration skills and an ability to build and nurture strong relationships to achieve buy in from others.

The position is UK-based. Work location may be in office or hybrid within one of the Jacobs locations, however, travel to regional and the head office location will be required. Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Working with business operational leaders to define and agree environmental and energy saving targets and goals

• Ensuring that all environmental aspects and impacts are identified and managed for the business undertakings

• Legal compliance and compliance with applicable standards for environmental impacts and energy use

• Monitoring performance against targets and goals and other deliverables agreed with operations including developing an audit schedule and analysis of outputs to identify positive and negative trends and improvement actions

• Develop leading and lagging metrics for the business and contribute to identifying improvement and mitigating actions

• Producing regular performance reports for use by internal operations and function

• Produce all reports, data and information required by legislation, standards e.g., ISO14001 and ISO50001 and government/ public procurement

• Support the maintenance of the Business Management Documents (BMS) that relate to environmental and energy management

• Build and maintain a register of environmental and energy related legislation applicable to the business undertakings

• Lead on investigation of significant environmental incidents and record them in the company’s incident management tool

• Be a visible and credible ambassador for environmental and energy management, leading by example and supporting operations to deliver on the agreed goals

• Exemplary professional, demonstrating commitment to continued professional development

• Participate in external networking and technical development that supports the business

• Support and coach the development of office, site and client based environmental, and energy management leads and champions

• Collaborating with office and facility leads to ensure management system and objectives and targets reporting requirements are met

Here’s what you’ll need :

• Relevant environmental qualification to Diploma level or higher

• A good knowledge of environmental and energy management requirements, in particular those related to legislation, ISO standards & government procurement

• Relevant industry experience, nuclear industry experience is not essential

• Experience of working to ISO14001 and 50001 standards and auditor qualification

• Competent with Microsoft Office applications

• A good communicator both written, verbal and presenting

• Experience of developing and delivering improvement programmes

• Professional membership to a relevant body e.g. IEMA / REnvP

• Security Clearance (SC) level or be prepared to obtain it

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. (https://careers.jacobs.com/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. (https://www.jacobs.com/about/inclusion-and-diversity?_ga=2.1062705.1096535124.1626879887-1704311048.1575562676)

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

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), contact the team (https://www.jacobs.com/contact/careers2) .

Your application experience is important to us and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. We welcome feedback on our recruitment process and if you need more from us before deciding to join Jacobs then please let us know. (https://www.jacobs.com/contact/careers2)

Jacobs is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, medical condition, marital or domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression and transgender status, mental disability or physical disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, citizenship, low-income status or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law. Learn more about your rights under Federal EEO laws and supplemental language.