Design Manager Professional (45806)
About the role
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: At Jacobs, we’re not just working projects. We’re helping our clients innovate and grow by designing, engineering, and executing the construction of their advanced manufacturing facilities that are changing our world. As a Design Management Professional, you’ll join our collaborative team providing our clients with award-winning planning, engineering, architectural design, and design-build project delivery. We are looking for a passionate Design Management Professional in our Pacific Northwest region who is driven by collaboration, exceeding expectations, and challenging the status quo. This is a Hybrid position.
Responsibilities
- Servant leader to the project team. Create conditions supportive of team well-being. Guide and facilitate to establish integrated, coordinated workflow. Ensure the team can focus and be productive. Keep attention on continually improving how we do what we do.
- Guide the team in the development of their plan to complete the project and hold authority over that plan. Lead schedule problem-solving. Facilitate holistic, reliable, and achievable plans to deliver complete and coordinated work. Communicate the team's plan, constraints, and help needed to stakeholders. Negotiate on behalf of the team. Know the status of all work.
- Work within a coherent production system and work coordination routines. Utilize and improve production systems that serve the team. Ensure their effective use. Engage performers, discipline leads, project leadership, and discipline management for enrollment, encouragement, and directives to engage effectively in planning. Lead recurring planning sessions and Daily Check-ins. Facilitate scope breakdown and work-structuring to enable a coordinated flow of small multidiscipline batches of work. Guide the team and leadership in the prioritization of work. Respond with agility to evolving project needs.
- Integrate stakeholders, including Trade Partners, into the design process Coordinate trade constructability engagement with design. If trades are performing design, ensure