Job Satisfaction at Jacobs Australia

The role is aligned with expectations with a variety of projects, teams, clients, and levels of detail.

Gets to design stuff from the start. If you like project management-type of work -go for it. Personally, I prefer design, so I let my team leader know that. Whenever something interesting comes up, he lets me know and checks if I might be interested in being involved.

My personal responsibilities are slightly less technical than I would like but I am still involved with very interesting work

Fieldwork, data management, report writing.

Interesting and engaging day-to-day work. Solid opportunities to tailor your work to your career interests and aspirations

Most days vary a lot. Typical day-to-day responsibilities involve running calculation and analysis models for structural design components, producing documentation such as reporting, running embodied carbon assessments, assisting with bids to win new work, a number of meetings and CPD events learning new skills and a lot of collaboration between other disciplines to complete projects.

Technical designs, report writing, site work

Every day I face a new challenge, and I have the ability to work with a diverse range of clients in a diverse range of sectors. I enjoy electrical engineering and because it is a passion of mine, it makes my work life ten times more enjoyable.

Constant supply of work. Required to manage a number of projects concurrently.

Exposure to multiple projects and flexibility of practising various skills.

project work both large and small scale, QA work of other team members, meetings, futures committee,

Office and field based work. Interaction with clients.

currently I am assisting with design and drawing tasks, which is enabling me to follow along with the project I am working on

I'm currently a designer undertaking drafting and design within the light rail sector.

Working my first year in Jacobs, the management is actually considering everyone at the team as potential resources and provides equal opportunities (based on experience) to work in projects. My role varies largely due to the project I am/was involved with. With the primary team, my role is to assist in many electrical services design both logistically and technically. As my skill is developing, obviously there are senior level engineers working with me in projects. My second role is actually a larger role. Due to previous engagement to similar project, my current role is to manage resources and process for a particular special assessment of a project. This includes liasing with senior engineers and clients, managing contractors, reviewing reports, etc. Overall, in Jacobs, we are working project based and hence the role and day to day responsibilities might change from time to time

Help organise team, lead consultant on many projects, work both independently and in a team (usually delegating work to graduates), writing reports and proposals, be a technical resource to team

Design, prepare project deliverables, communicate with various stakeholders.

Graduate Design Engineer - working on water and sewer projects working full time from the clients office. Day to day working on designs, report writing, producing tender schedule and specifications.

report writing in office, field work out of office

These are directly related to what I studied in my masters degree