Growing together
Our people and our culture
Our people and our culture are fundamental to what truly makes Jacobs. Authentic leadership and a commitment to living our core values every day creates trust, respect and empowerment across our business. It helps us stay focused on our Culture of Caring℠ to deliver positive impacts and the best outcomes for all our stakeholders.
By fostering learning and unlocking career opportunities for our people, we attract and retain the best talent to deliver for our clients and fuel long-term growth for Jacobs. Our expanded global resources help our talent around the globe grow and develop careers while also sharing expertise and specialized skills.
A world where you can
Our people can pursue different careers and lifelong professional opportunities at Jacobs. We promote and foster agile careers enabling employees to develop new skills and accelerate learning in different areas of our business. Our Jacobs Go! Program provides six-month roles that encourage career growth and greater understanding across our global footprint.
Developing the next generation of professionals, our global graduate development program and our local apprenticeships transition our future talent into our community with the skills, networks and knowledge necessary to create the foundation for a successful career at Jacobs. We also provide our interns with practical, relevant “real life experience” to help support their professional goals.
We introduced our Returnship Program for talented professionals looking to refresh skills and reignite careers after an extended career break. As an employer of choice for diverse talent, this program enables us to bring more innovative thought and solutions into our teams to support our clients.
One of our most successful leadership programs has been our award-winning CEO Leadership Roundtable series which helps our people leaders and influencers around the world to strengthen their leadership capabilities and grow as inspiring, impactful leaders.
We’re continually working to broaden the pipeline of diverse talent, providing an environment where people of all backgrounds, ethnicity, gender, geography, disability, sexuality or any other characteristic, can thrive. Given the typically lower female representation in STEAM careers, we’re particularly focused on empowering our female talent to help advance our innovation and growth.
We’re working to significantly improve our global gender balance by fiscal year 2025, with our aspiration to achieve 40% female talent, 40% male talent and 20% being a flexible measure — including any gender and those who choose not to identify or disclose. We extended this aspirational goal in our new, industry-leading Sustainability-Linked Bond Framework, where the interest rates payable on the bonds are tied to Jacobs’ efforts to increase gender diversity in leadership positions by 2028.
"Through substantial support and coaching, the Jacobs Returnship Program helped me get back on track with my profession after nearly a five-year career break."
Rana Hamed Senior Consultant - Strategic Consulting, Middle East, Jacobs
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Total recordable incident rate
40K+
One Million Lives check-ins since launch to fiscal year end 2023
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Active positive mental health champions
Partnerships and recognition
Focus on wellbeing
A world where you can is only achievable when we’re each functioning at our highest abilities. We provide wellbeing programs and benefits to best support our people and their families.
Our TogetherBeyond℠ approach supports a workplace where we are curious, embrace different perspectives and harness new ideas to bring the innovative, extraordinary solutions clients demand from us. We know that if our people feel connected and that they belong, then there is no limit to who they can be and what we can achieve together.
Whether they connect through our Jacobs Employee Networks, our Communities of Practice, or other ways, our people collaborate and drive pivotal initiatives within Jacobs that directly impact our clients and create a workplace where everyone thrives.
Integrating physical, mental, financial and social wellbeing, our global wellbeing programs, tools and benefits put our people and their families first, giving them resources and support to be at their best. Our new global financial counseling helps our people globally manage their finances now and into the future. We’ve partnered with Carrot to bring free, inclusive fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits for all paths to parenthood and provide support for menopause, low testosterone and more. We also expanded our parental leave in the U.S.
We’re working to drive inclusion of our LGBTQ+ family, and to provide them with the appropriate support by reviewing all key Jacobs family policies for inclusiveness, regardless of gender or gender identity.
We commenced our BeyondZero® journey in 2007, and we remain committed to prioritizing work that is healthy, safe and secure for our people and our planet, and we’re proud to have demonstrated safety excellence with another year of zero employee fatalities at work and a total recordable incident rate1 of 0.20, compared to the North American Industry Classification System’s most recently reported2 aggregate rate of 0.60.
Jacobs’ One Million Lives (OML) app continues to grow in momentum, providing a free, publicly available, mental health check-in tool with a resources website that enables users to check their own mental health and access proactive strategies for personal mental health development. Over 40,000 One Million Lives check-ins were completed between December 2020 launch and our fiscal year end 2023.
¹ As at October 15, 2023 and recorded in accordance with OSHA record keeping requirements, but subject to change thereafter due to possible injury/illness classification changes. The TRIR calculation uses the U.S. OSHA formula of ‘Number of Incidents x 200,000 / total number of hours worked in a year’. The 200,000 is the benchmark established by OSHA because it represents the total number of hours 100 employees would log in 50 weeks based on a 40-hour work week. ² Cited on September 14, 2023 via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Incidence rates of non-fatal occupational injuries and illnesses by industry and case types, 2021 for NAICS code 54133.
“A fertility journey is very personal and emotional. Carrot takes away the financial burden and lets you focus on yourself and your family.”
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80 teammates recently got together in Goa, India to collaborate and learn at their 2023 Graduate and Leadership Conference. Learn more →
“Joining networks allowed me to bring my whole self to work and to feel like I belong regardless of my beliefs, culture or sexuality.”
Zelda Civil Engineer, Jacobs
Connecting and empowering those with disabilities or other physical or cognitive adaptive challenges, their families and friends and those who provide care to others.
Our ACE team is continuously advocating for a more disability-inclusive workplace, industry and world. | Learn more →
Empowering our employees across all career stages to maximize their potential and make Jacobs the industry leader and workplace of choice.
Our Jacobs Go! Program takes the careers of people like Niki to new locales, new projects and new heights. | Learn more →
“Link” in Spanish — Leveraging the company’s unique and vibrant Latino talent contributing to our company’s growth strategy attracting and retaining Latinos, while fostering leadership, community involvement, diversity and cultural pride.
Building connections in London’s thriving Latino community with Latin American House. | Learn more →
“Working together” in Swahili — Positively impacting the black employee experience through recruitment, development and retention of black talent.
Helping to advance the best and brightest Black talent within the profession at the Association of Project Management’s Accelerating Black Inclusion event in London. | Learn more →
Providing an inclusive environment that actively nurtures and supports our diverse employees and clients across all ethnicities and cultures.
Our OneWorld India team volunteered to clean up one of Mumbai’s busiest beaches and make a positive difference. | Learn more →
Creating an environment where LGBTQ+ employees feel able and empowered to bring their whole self to work.
Supporting the LGBTQ+ community and empowering allies across Australia and New Zealand. | Learn more →
Advocating for veterans and current military reserve members, including support for transitioning veterans.
From the Royal Marines to a new career with Jacobs – find out about Matt Edwards' career transition. | Learn more →
Accelerating a cultural shift by empowering women and promoting gender equality.
Our increased focus on driving gender equality in the workplace is reflected by three consecutive years in The Times’ coveted Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality. | Learn more →