Senior Consultant - Lean Performance Management in Manchester

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission‑critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting‑edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact: Support some of the UK's most complex infrastructure programmes. Drive performance. Influence delivery. Shape the future. As a Senior Consultant within Lean Performance Management, you'll help unlock the successful delivery of some of the UK's largest and most ambitious infrastructure programmes. Working at the heart of major projects, you'll bring structure, clarity, and momentum to complex delivery environments. Using lean concepts and performance improvement techniques, you'll help integrated project teams work smarter, collaborate better, and overcome obstacles before they become barriers. Your contribution won't just improve project performance; it will help deliver critical infrastructure that connects communities, supports economic growth, and improves everyday lives.

This is an opportunity to see the tangible impact of your work on projects that truly matter.

What's In It For You? At Jacobs, you'll join a team that values curiosity, innovation, and continuous improvement. We'll give you the freedom, support, and opportunities to develop your career while working on some of the most exciting programmes in the industry. Whether you're looking to deepen your expertise in project performance, broaden your experience across major programmes, or work alongside industry‑pioneering professionals, you'll find the platform to grow here.

• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• 24 days annual leave plus the option to buy up to 10 additional days
• Enhanced pension contributions of up to 10%
• Private medical cover and Digital GP access
• Family planning and fertility support services
• Enhanced parental leave and family support programmes
• Life assurance at four times your salary
• Income protection for long‑term financial security
• Access to wellbeing support, including Calm and Daily Burn
• Professional memberships funded and ongoing development opportunities
• Paid volunteering time, matched charity funding, and community engagement programmes

About The Opportunity: We're growing our Production Management team and have several exciting new opportunities available. Our consultants help major programmes unlock better performance by improving planning, increasing collaboration, embedding lean thinking, and driving continuous improvement across integrated teams. As a Senior Consultant within Lean Performance Management, you'll play a key role in helping project teams deliver successfully in complex environments. 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.

• 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.

Jacobs offers hybrid working and a standard 40‑hour working week. Joining Jacobs not only connects you locally but globally. Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and belonging. 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. With safety and flexibility always top of mind, we’ve gone beyond traditional ways of working so you have the support, means and space to maximize your potential.

You’ll uncover flexible working arrangements, benefits, and opportunities, from well‑being benefits to our global giving and volunteering program, to exploring new and inventive ways to help our clients make the world a better place. No matter what drives you, you’ll discover how you can cultivate, nurture, and achieve your goals – all at a single global company.

We aim to embed inclusion and belonging in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected and creative. We accept people for who they are, and we champion the richness of different perspectives, lived experiences and backgrounds in the workplace, as a source of learning and innovation. We are committed to building vibrant communities within Jacobs, including through our Jacobs Employee Networks, Communities of Practice and our Find Your Community initiatives, allowing every employee to find connection, purpose, and belonging.

Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain talent from a wide range of backgrounds. As a disability confident employer, we will interview disabled candidates who best meet the criteria. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role. We value collaboration and believe that in‑person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

Your application experience is important to us, and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team via Careers Support.