Jacobs Looking for Performance & Operational Excellence Consultant – Transit / Rail at Toronto, ON Full Time

Our People & Places Solutions business – reinforces our drive to improve the lives of people everywhere and epitomizes the “why” of what we do – the tremendous positive impact and value our solutions bring to our communities and society as a whole. From facilities delivering life-saving therapies and ensuring clean water to enabling the connection of people through all modes of transportation and providing access to technology – we’re integrating a multitude of these solution elements to build the smart environments of tomorrow.

Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow.

Your Impact:

At Jacobs, we’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40+ countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

We’re looking for a Performance & Operational Excellence Consultant who enables the realization of more efficient and reliable delivery, unlocking innovation potential and making continuous improvement a reality for our clients. Our core operational excellence and innovation capabilities have grown from Lean and Agile methodologies, and the application of production thinking.

The breadth of opportunities suits those who have the curiosity to experience new environments and the capability to quickly adapt. You will enjoy success in delivery with a proactive approach to identifying opportunities for improvement. An interest in best practice ways of working and the ability to impress these on others is critical. You must be comfortable working in diverse and potentially challenging team environments where you will be expected to facilitate collaboration and deliver performance improvement. We support teams from technical delivery through to senior management. We drive a digital by default approach; technical capability in data management and analytics is valued.

At Jacobs we operate a hybrid working model, and the role can be based downtown Toronto at the client office combined with working from home.

Here’s What You’ll Need:

• A strategic, yet delivery-oriented, thinker.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate reliable delivery, process improvement and high performing teams.
• Experience in operational excellence methodologies and ways of working.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, presentation, and communication skills.
• Experience of operating in a program / project environment with multiple stakeholders, including operating in cross-business teams.
• Analytical thinking ability and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in developing and maintaining lean Visual Management tools for teams.
• A mindset to constructively challenge the accepted norms and always seek a better way.
• Client and end-customer focus.
• Motivated and enthusiastic with a personal drive for high quality work, continuous improvement and the direct application of lessons learned.
• Digital mindset and experience with digital tools (such as PowerBI, PowerApps, Power Automate).

Ideally, here’s what you’ll also have:

• Qualified to degree level in a relevant subject (relevant experience or other qualifications will be considered for the right candidate).
• Previous consulting experience and experience in the infrastructure sector.
• Experience in LEAN, AGILE or SCRUM.
• Exposure to innovation, design thinking and solutions development.
• Strong commercial and business acumen.
• Exposure to business development and growth/sales.

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. With $13 billion in revenue and a talent force of more than 55,000, Jacobs provides a full spectrum of professional services including consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery for the government and private sector.