Architect _ Principal or Associate Director, Birmingham-(BIE00038L)
Your Impact:
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:
As the Jacobs Cities & Places team, we create thriving places across different scales - from regions to cities, neighbourhoods to individual buildings and all through an integrated design approach. We have a tremendous opportunity in front of us to build upon our strengths and develop an interdisciplinary planning, design and delivery practice that is uniquely Jacobs, that sets the direction for the industry and is home to the very best and brightest design thinkers, disruptors, technical experts, visionaries and storytellers.
Our business unit brings together engineers, architects, surveyors, urban designers, project managers and transport planners to provide collaborative and coordinated value design solutions for our clients, both nationally and internationally.
Due to our expanding portfolio of design projects and long-term framework expansion, we have exciting opportunities within our Architectural Design teams. We seek talented individuals who are looking to further develop their existing expertise. This role is based on a hybrid basis out of our central Birmingham office.
We deliver exciting and challenging projects across a broad range of sectors including transport infrastructure, the public sector, defence, education, research, technology, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and mixed-use developments. These are across all stages of the building design and construction process from initial strategic briefing, where client objectives and feasibility studies are undertaken; through to development of conceptual and technical proposals, to construction phase delivery.
Key requirements for roles at this level are a strong design acumen, excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach to project leadership with the ability to control all aspects of project delivery. You will need to be able to work independently and take design responsibility for decision-making and output deliverables within your project team.
Here's What You'll Need:
1. To be a Qualified Architect in the UK with professional ARB registration
2. Professional experience in leading and delivering complex multi-disciplinary design, infrastructure and construction projects across varied sectors
3. Knowledge of BIM based delivery including Autodesk Revit
4. Experience of preparing Bids and Proposals
5. Experience of working collaboratively with design teams, external consultants and clients and managing positive mutually beneficial relationships - strong problem-solving ability, high attention to detail and an ability to come up with practical solutions
6. Good Team Management and Project Delivery Programming skills
7. Experience of Resource and Fee Management skills is desirable