myFlex

Supporting our new ways of working, myFlex at Jacobs is about giving you control over how, where and when you work to best full fill your professional and personal priorities.

Professional Subscriptions

Jacobs encourages employees to seek membership of appropriate professional institutions relevant to the discipline in which they are employed and will reimburse annual subscriptions.

Jacobs GO

Jacobs Global Opportunities (GO) is an employee program aimed at facilitating inter-regional and international six month secondments. The objective of this program is to allow connectivity and to grow our global network.

STEAM Volunteering

Help us build the talent of tomorrow – today. Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math – STEAM for short – is at the heart of our business. #STEAMatJacobs is an employee volunteering program to engage students around the world.

Parental and Adoption Leave

Paid parental leave is available to employees who will have the primary responsibility to care for their child.

Jacobs values the contribution to the community made by adopting and foster parents and the commitment of staff who provide care for children. When adopting or fostering a child under 16 years of age, you may be entitled to take adoption and foster leave to enable you to be the child’s primary caregiver.

Graduate Network

Your local Graduate Network or the ANZ wide Graduate Network are great places to build your network, and to get access to other development opportunities. They may host lunch and learns or similar events that would be directly applicable to your Graduate Development Program progress. Additionally, they give you a great opportunity to meet other graduates and others in the business. They also have a monthly newsletter and host many social events both ANZ wide and in each local office.

Jacobs Employee Networks

These employee-led and employee-organised groups play a critical role in fostering our Culture of Caring at Jacobs. The shared mission of our employee networks is to celebrate and develop Jacobs’ inclusive employee population, facilitate innovation at Jacobs, and contribute to the communities in which we live and work.

Salary Continuance & Life Insurance

Life insurance provides a lump sum payment in the event of an insured member's death or if diagnosed as being terminally ill.
Income Protection insurance provides a monthly payment that will be a replacement of some of your income if you are totally disabled and unable to work as a result of an injury or sickness.

Social Activities

Regular social events and networking opportunities held locally and virtually.

Educational Reimbursements

We will financially support you to undertake relevant post-graduate / undergraduate & other study.

Healthworks

HealthWorks offers enhanced services focused around key areas and supports Jacobs approach to Flexible working. The services include: 1:1 coaching both virtual and face to face, consultations and access to the myHealthworks portal.

Positive Mental Health Champions

Positive Mental Health Champions, training our employees in how to guide staff who have mental health concerns or crises, to the appropriate level of help; support fellow employees; and encourage positive mental health throughout the workplace.

E3 Learning Platform

At Jacobs, there is no limit to what you can be and what you can achieve. Jacobs has launched a new learning experience designed to connect your ambitions with the learning opportunities that can help make them a reality. Our learning portal supports your personal and professional growth with courses tailored to your role and career interests and curated content to help you prepare for our future.

Employee Assistance Program

Your health & wellbeing are important to Jacobs and we want to introduce to you a great benefit that Jacobs offers - our Employee Assistance Program. This program provides confidential counselling service to help you resolve personal concerns, family and relationship issues, stress-related problems or work conflicts issues. The professional service is completely paid by Jacobs and is available to you and your families at no cost.

Collectively

The Collectively℠ Program unites Jacobs’ 55,000 visionaries, dreamers and doers in a single platform for charitable giving and volunteering – allowing us to amplify the positive impact we make in our communities every day. We support more than 2 million charities around the globe.

Ally Training

We offer ally training to embolden those within the Jacobs community with awareness and the foundational skills necessary to take daily steps in becoming impacting advocates and allies, actively playing a role in building meaningful diverse relationships while supporting and standing with our diverse community.

Public Holiday Swap

Employees may request to transfer a legislated public holiday to be observed on another working day.

Mentoring

Learn how our experts and industry leaders deliver the boldest solutions for the extraordinary and the everyday.

Health Insurance

Private health insurance plan is provided by the corresponding health insurance providers in Australia and New Zealand for Jacobs employees over a range of health insurance options and discounts to suit your needs.

Lunch and Learns

Weekly Learn and Learns sessions are scheduled to provide opportunities for our interns and graduates to learn more about particular topics or disciplines. 

Buddies

The buddying system is designed to ensure that you receive a consistent level of informal support when starting with Jacobs. Buddies ensure you have the tools and resources available to grow professionally. This 'showing of the ropes' could range from showing where the kitchens/facilities are located on relevant floors, to systems support or simply providing a friendly ear where required.