Asia Section Leader-Energy & Power

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Your impact

Jacobs is seeking an experienced Section Leader to lead the Asia Generation Team. This section brings together around 30 people across a number of teams with diverse skills and backgrounds from Malaysia. The Asia Generation section holds a diverse group of professionals that can support renewable generation, battery and pumped hydro storage projects, as well as thermal projects such as gas-fired, waste-to-energy and new-energy generation.

The section will balance its focus on clients in Asia with supporting projects in Australia and New Zealand as part of the wider APAC Generation team. This Section Leader role will work alongside the ANZ Generation Section Leader, Geothermal Section Leader and Philippines Section Leader to assign resources to secure and deliver services within the APAC region. Global integrated delivery will be a key performance indicator for the section leader role. The Section Leader supports the APAC Geographic Manager and provides leadership to their Section. In the Section Leader role, you will provide inspirational leadership and role modelling of Jacobs core values, fostering an inclusive and diverse culture that embodies Jacobs Culture of Caring and prioritises the health and wellbeing of your people. You will set clear direction and provide a strong client focus. Your responsiveness and ability to develop strong client relationships will help to ensure we can identify and anticipate client needs and ensure our recruitment, retention and development programs reflect this need.

You will support your team to be engaged, resilient and adaptable, and inspire them to strive for innovation while maintaining outstanding project delivery, responsible and proactive commercial management, and making disciplined investment decisions. You will support team members to link their individual goals developed to key business objectives in order to deliver against Performance Unit and business goals and to build satisfying and meaningful careers for your Section. You will support your team to ensure it can thrive in a global setting, encouraging cross-geography relationships in order to maximise the benefit of global integrated delivery to our clients and our people.

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.

Heres what youll need

• With a Bachelors Engineering Degree
• Member of the Chartered Institution with associated relevant experience
• Experience across thermal and renewable technologies through project development and into execution.
• Experience in securing and delivering services for generation clients from identifying opportunities, through preparing proposals to managing projects to completion.
• Understands market trends and financial drivers to contribute to and drive sound commercial decision making.
• Understands the importance of accuracy and has high attention to details
• Customer focused, passionate about exceeding the requirements of internal and external stakeholders and have the ability to effectively interact and build strong relationships with Clients and internal stakeholders
• Demonstrate excellent planning and time management skills

The Ideal Candidate:

• Power generation delivery experience in development and execution
• Experience in business development from identifying opportunities through to securing orders
• Business management experience, including compliance with corporate governance requirements.
• Excellent relationship-building and communication skills
• Demonstrated leadership and mentoring abilities
• Creative problem-solver with the ability to challenge concepts constructively
• Experience in delivering complex, multi-stakeholder projects
• Maximises the power of diverse thinking and perspectives by supporting a culture in which differences are shared and celebrated
• Adopts a calm, positive and persistent approach in the face of adversity
• Skilled in proposal development and strategic sales processes

Jacobs. A world where you can.

At Jacobs, we support your personal life and career journeys. From our inclusive employee networks to our positive mental health champions, were committed to driving a culture of caring where you can be you. With safety and flexibility always top of mind, weve gone beyond traditional ways of working to help you uncover a working arrangement that delivers the flexibility, tools and space to maximise your potential.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if were inclusive, were more connected, and if diverse, were more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether youre pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our eight global Jacobs employee networks centred on driving inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and our Womens Network - find out more about our Jacobs Employee Networks here.

No matter what drives you, youll discover a way to cultivate, nurture and achieve your goals - all at a single global company.

Information :

• Company : Jacobs
• Position : Asia Section Leader-Energy & Power
• Location : Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur
• Country : MY