Deputy Project Performance Manager

Job description

Your impact

• At Jacobs, you’ll play a pivotal role in supporting some of the UK’s largest infrastructure programmes.
• By applying lean methodologies, you’ll ensure the efficient delivery of complex packages, working closely with other Project Performance Managers and colleagues to provide seamless support to integrated project and client teams.
• Your efforts will directly contribute to the success of high-profile civil infrastructure construction projects, making a tangible difference in the industry.

What’s in it for You?

• At Jacobs, we clear the way for inventive thinking, providing you with the support, means, and space to deliver bold solutions for both extraordinary and everyday challenges.
• Our Complex Delivery Management consultants enable the realisation of more efficient and reliable delivery in major programmes and strategic projects by unlocking innovation potential and embedding a continuous improvement culture across integrated teams.
• The group’s core capabilities range from programme and project management, process mapping, collaborative planning, lean production thinking, agile management, transformation, and innovation consulting.
• An interest in best practice ways of working and the ability to promote these approaches to others is critical. You must be comfortable working in diverse and potentially challenging team environments where you will be expected to facilitate collaboration and deliver performance improvement.
• The breadth of opportunities suits those who have the curiosity to experience new environments and the capability to quickly adapt. You will enjoy success in delivery with a proactive approach to identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Join us in a world where you can thrive and make a significant impact.

We Offer

• Competitive salary that reflects your skills and experience.
• Flexible work arrangements, including hybrid, part-time, and flexible working hours, patterns, and locations.
• 24 days’ holiday, with the option to buy up to 10 additional days.
• Enhanced pension contributions of up to 10%.
• Single medical cover and Digital GP service, with options to add your partner and family.
• Access to fertility healthcare and family planning services.
• Enhanced parental leave pay and free membership to employee assistance and parental programmes.
• Life assurance at 4x your salary.
• Income protection in case of long-term illness or injury.
• Free access to wellbeing apps such as Calm and Daily Burn.
• Professional membership fees covered, along with continuous professional development (CPD) opportunities.
• Charity matched funding, paid volunteering time, and charitable donation initiatives.

About the Opportunity

• As Deputy Project Performance Manager, you will work independently with minimal supervision and take ownership of selected work packages, ensuring on-time delivery in line with project governance and assurance requirements.
• You’ll coordinate teams, manage priorities, balance workloads, remove blockers, report on performance, and escalate issues to workstream managers where necessary.
• Building strong working relationships will be essential to maintain effective communication with technical experts, internal stakeholders, and clients, including in remote working environments.
• You’ll facilitate planning and problem-solving workshops, driving decision-making on complex issues.

Here’s what you’ll need

• Knowledge of Lean tools and techniques (e.g. Collaborative Planning, Visual Management, Last Planner).
• Experience working within civil infrastructure and/or construction programmes involving multiple stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience with client engagement and relationship building.
• Strong presentation and communication skills.
• Experience using task management tools (e.g. Asana, Monday.com, Planner), Power Query, Power Apps, Power BI, and/or Power Automate.
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel, Word, and Teams.
• An investigative mindset with excellent problem-solving skills and strong attention to detail.
• The ability to manage large work packages, with resilience and strong organisational skills.
• A collaborative approach and enthusiasm for working with diverse teams and clients.
• A strong commitment to delivering high-quality work, driving continuous improvement, capturing lessons learned, and constructively challenging existing ways of working to identify better solutions.

Additional Information

• Jacobs operates a hybrid working environment with a standard 40-hour working week.
• Good luck with your application!