OLE Design Engineer

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

You will be joining our UK Transportation Business, which consists of over 1700 people located in offices throughout the UK. The rail part of the business includes Network Rail, TfL and HS2 amongst its biggest clients.

Owing to a significant increase in our secured works throughout 2023 and beyond we are looking to enhance our national overhead line design function. As a vital member of our Rail team, you will utilise your highly developed technical engineering, interpersonal and organisational skills in supporting the technical delivery of Rail OLE solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead Designer duties for OLE design schemes
• Production of OLE design submissions including OLE Layout Plans, Cross Sections, Allocations, Isolation Diagrams updates, bonding designs, and supporting reports and calculations.
• Ensuring designs are delivered in line with relevant, current design standards, are constructable, and apply Safe by Design principles.
• Partake in designs reviews to other disciplines and to the client’s engineering teams through IDCs and other progressive design development meetings.
• Help the development of junior members of staff. Developing the skills and knowledge base in Jacobs’ OLE design team.
• Providing technical support to multi-disciplinary and electrification projects
• Engaging with clients at all levels

• Proven experience in OLE Design within the UK
• Interpersonal, communication and influencing skills
• Verbal communication skills: able to present and discuss designs with clients and other stakeholders in IDCs and Progressive Design Reviews.
• Experience with OLEMI and other OLE ranges i.e. UKMS, Mk3B, ATF, UK1.
• Written skills: able to structure a technical design report.
• Familiar with Isolation/section diagrams and their update process
• Understanding of Earthing & Bonding required for electrification
• BIM knowledge and an aptitude in MicroStation
• Desire to train and mentor more junior members of the OLE design team
• IT skills including Microsoft Office and ProjectWise applications

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

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