Project Manager - Water Conveyance
About the role
As a Water Conveyance Project Manager, you'll have the opportunity to lead complex and meaningful conveyance projects, shape long-term client relationships, and influence the growth of our regional water practice. This role offers the autonomy to lead, the support to succeed, and the career runway to make a lasting impact. You'll be charged with leading a team of highly qualified and motivated engineers through the design process, interacting directly with clients to develop and deliver technical conveyance solutions, and mentoring ambitious mid-level engineers. You'll grow your career by acting as a highly competent seller-doer that will be empowered to develop and manage projects in a trusting and supported environment.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a Project Manager/Design Manager leading a technical team, performing technical tasks, and coordinating the use of resources to accomplish multiple, concurrent water infrastructure projects.
- Provide planning and design related management and technical support for various types of conveyance systems such as open channel flow and low-pressure conduit, flow control structures, and pump stations and force mains.
- Conduct other water-related civil infrastructure evaluations as assigned.
- Support business development activities in order to grow the local conveyance group.
- Work with key clients resulting in acquisition of new projects as well as perform the role of Project Manager supporting various projects and programs within a defined client portfolio.
- Effectively lead and manage project teams throughout all phases of project planning, execution, and closeout; consistent with established project delivery processes to meet the scope, schedule, budget, and other specified requirements stated in each contract.
- Play an integral role in leading and mentoring staff, forming long-term relationships with clients and pursuing new work, building water client portfolios, including strategy development, positioning, proposing, and negotiating contracts.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Civil, Mechanical, and/or Environmental Engineering.
- Registration as a Professional Engineer (PE) is required or ability to obtain.
- Minimum of 7 years of progressive civil engineering experience.
- Demonstrated ability to manage scope, budget, schedule, and technical quality across complex infrastructure projects.
Preferred qualifications
- A Master's degree in Civil Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
- Experience serving various clients involving a wide variety of fields including conveyance pipeline design, project management, water/wastewater pump station design.
- Demonstrated ability to lead the design and preparation of plans, specifications, estimates, studies, proposals and/or reports.
- Experience with Design-Build and/or EPC projects.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
- 401(k) plan with the ability to purchase company stock at a discount.
- Eligible employees may also enroll in a deferred compensation plan or the Executive Deferral Plan.
- Unlimited U.S. Personalized Paid Time Off (PPTO) policy for full-time salaried/exempt employees.
- Seven paid holidays and caregiver leave.
- Certain roles may be eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, performance discretionary bonus, and stock.
Pay
The base salary range for this position is $145,000.00 to $195,000.00. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Schedule
This position offers a hybrid working policy, allowing employees to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations.