Senior Consultant - Lean Production Management

📈 You'll be trusted to take ownership of key work packages, working with minimal supervision to coordinate activities, remove blockers, improve visibility, and keep delivery on track.

📈 You'll

• Apply lean methodologies to improve project performance and delivery outcomes
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and manage differing priorities
• Facilitate collaborative planning, problem-solving, and decision-making workshops
• Monitor progress, identify risks, and drive proactive solutions
• Communicate effectively with project teams, stakeholders, and clients
• Build strong relationships across technical, commercial, and client organisations
• Support governance, assurance, and performance reporting activities
• Help create a culture of continuous improvement across project teams

☀️ Every day will bring new problems to solve, new stakeholders, and new opportunities to make a difference.

💡 If you enjoy solving problems, creating clarity from complexity, and helping teams perform at their best, you'll thrive in this role.

Why Join Jacobs?

☑️ Work on nationally significant infrastructure programmes

☑️ Develop expertise in lean delivery, collaborative planning, transformation, and performance improvement

☑️ Gain exposure to major clients, multidisciplinary teams, and high-profile projects

☑️ Join a collaborative team that encourages new ideas and challenges conventional thinking

☑️ Experience varied projects and environments that will accelerate your professional growth

☑️ Be part of a culture focused on innovation, continuous improvement, and delivering meaningful outcomes

Here's what you'll need

✅ Experience working within large civil infrastructure, construction, programme, or project environments

✅ Knowledge of lean delivery tools and techniques such as Collaborative Planning, Visual Management, and Last Planner®

✅ Experience working across multidisciplinary teams and multiple stakeholder groups

✅ Strong client engagement and relationship-building skills

✅ Excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills

✅ Experience using project and task management tools such as Asana, Monday.com, Planner, or similar platforms

✅ Strong Microsoft Office capability, particularly Excel, Word, Teams, and reporting tools

✅ A proactive, analytical mindset with excellent problem-solving and organisational skills

✅ The confidence to question existing approaches and identify better ways of working

We're looking for people who combine strong project delivery experience with a passion for improving performance and ways of working.

Ready to Help Deliver the Projects That Matter Most?

If you're excited by the opportunity to influence project performance, work on landmark infrastructure programmes, and build a career with real impact, we'd love to hear from you.

👉 Join Jacobs and be part of a team that's transforming how major projects are delivered. Apply today and help shape a smarter, more sustainable future.

🏙️ Jacobs offers hybrid working and a standard 40-hour working week

🍀 Good luck with your application

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