What's In It for You

At Jacobs, you'll have the opportunity to combine technical leadership with business influence in a role that offers genuine scope for growth and impact.

You'll benefit from

• The opportunity to shape and grow a nationally recognised ICA capability
• A leadership role on major UK water frameworks and flagship programmes
• Flexible and hybrid working options that support work-life balance
• Exposure to industry-leading digital, automation, and smart water technologies
• Career development within a global organisation committed to innovation and excellence
• The chance to mentor and develop talented engineers while building high-performing teams
• Meaningful work that supports environmental sustainability and resilient communities
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About The Opportunity

We're looking for an established ICA leader to drive technical excellence, capability growth, and project delivery across our Regulated Water business.

Working with leading water companies including United Utilities, Northumbrian Water, Thames Water, Severn Trent Water, and Anglian Water, you'll provide strategic direction and technical leadership across a diverse portfolio of major capital projects.

You'll lead multidisciplinary teams delivering complex water and wastewater infrastructure schemes through feasibility, detailed design, construction support, commissioning, and operational readiness. Along the way, you'll champion innovation, digital transformation, safety by design, and best practice across the ICA discipline.

Key areas of focus include

• Leading the delivery of complex ICA solutions across treatment works, pumping stations, reservoirs, sludge facilities, and network infrastructure
• Acting as a Technical Authority or Design Lead on major projects
• Driving technical quality, governance, and compliance
• Supporting strategic pursuits, framework opportunities, and client engagement
• Building trusted relationships with clients, contractors, and alliance partners
• Developing and mentoring ICA engineers and designers
• Promoting innovation, standardisation, and continuous improvement across the business
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Here's what you'll need

We're looking for a proven technical leader with

• A degree in Electrical Engineering, Control Engineering, Automation, or a related discipline
• Chartered Engineer status
• Significant experience within the UK water and wastewater sector
• Extensive experience delivering ICA solutions through detailed design and construction support phases
• Demonstrable leadership experience managing multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Experience working on major UK water company frameworks
• Strong knowledge of PLC, SCADA, telemetry, process instrumentation, and control systems
• Understanding of functional safety, cyber security principles, and industrial communications
• Experience within Design & Build and/or Alliance delivery environments