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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

The Jacobs Power and Energy team provides a range of services to our transmission and distribution clients including the design of their system assets and the planning of the future networks. We also work closely with Renewable developers and mission critical industries in the technology and process sector. Our team has a strong focus on innovation and supporting industries and organisations driving the decarbonisation of our energy systems.

Our People & Places Solutions business - reinforces our drive to improve the lives of people everywhere and epitomizes the "why" of what we do - the tremendous positive impact and value our solutions bring to our communities and society as a whole. From facilities delivering life-saving therapies and ensuring clean water to enabling the connection of people through all modes of transportation and providing access to technology - we're integrating a multitude of these solution elements to build the smart environments of tomorrow.

The role of ‘Senior/ Principal Power System Engineer’ in our ‘Future Power Systems’ team is one of the components of a growth strategy to position Jacobs to meet the requirements of energy transition activities within the Europe and Middle East (EMEA) region.

As part of our team, you’ll be providing a range of services throughout the Power System study projects. This includes Power System modelling, feasibility studies, Grid Code compliance studies, Grid Interconnection/impact studies, Insulation Coordination Studies, technical reports, technical bid preparation, attend the customer meetings etc.

As this is a Senior/Principal role, you will also be required to guide the technical discipline at the senior level, delivering innovative solutions that provide excellent value to our clients.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Guiding all the study activities (i.e. support in the technical bid, modelling, performing the simulations & results survey, reports, client meetings & presentation, technical discussions etc.)
  • Work closely with the Team members across the globe in multiple power system studies for transmission, distribution, renewables, and industrial systems.
  • Power system studies including, but not limited to short circuit calculations, load flow, protection coordination, harmonic analyses, electromagnetic transients, dynamic studies etc.
  • Work with different customers TSO’s, DNO’s and renewable developers across the globe
  • Work on several low carbon initiatives like EV, BESS, renewables etc. solutions towards the net zero.
  • Contributing to the delivery of consultancy projects, delivering on time and to budget
  • Ensuring the design meets all the client’s scoping requirements and compliance with their technical specifications
  • Acting as main point of contact with the client during the various project phases.
  • Mentoring and training of our young engineers.
  • Willingly support the sales & management in client engagement and business development opportunities in pursuit of future work for the business
  • Liaise directly with our clients, contractors, operators, and suppliers as necessary.

Jacobs is a “Relationship” focused company and the building and developing of these relationships with our clients is a significant and important part of this role.

The successful candidate will effectively support our business by helping to grow activities in transmission and distribution. This will include modelling and performing various power system studies for our major energy clients worldwide. Projects which typically in all the areas of Power sector right from generation (conventional & non-conventional), transmission, distribution and industrial systems.

We have diverse design teams based at offices in London, Birmingham, Cardiff, and Bristol; however, we require the flexibility to travel across all our offices and client locations. Work from home arrangements are available although a regular weekly presence in your home office would be required.

Here's What You'll Need:

  • Minimum of a Degree or equivalent in electrical engineering or higher, Masters or PhD in relevant field. 
  • Membership of a recognised professional institution /organisation preferably at a Chartered level
  • Proficient in power system modelling and study using DIgSILENT, PSS/E, ETAP and PSCAD software’s
  • Proven work experience in Power systems, utility and renewable projects
  • Coding skills for example in MATLAB/ Python is preferable
  • UK Driving license

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

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.

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.

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