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.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of highly qualified and motivated engineers through the design process
• Interact directly with clients to develop and deliver technical conveyance solutions
• Mentor ambitious mid-level engineers
• Act as a highly competent seller-doer empowered to develop and manage projects
• Serve as a Project Manager/Design Manager leading a technical team, performing technical tasks, and coordinating resources to accomplish multiple, concurrent water infrastructure projects
• Provide planning and design related management and technical support for conveyance systems including open channel flow and low-pressure conduit, flow control structures, and pump stations and force mains
• Conduct other water-related civil infrastructure evaluations
• Support business development activities to grow the local conveyance group
• Work with key clients to acquire new projects
• Lead and manage project teams throughout all phases of project planning, execution, and closeout to meet scope, schedule, budget, and contract requirements
• Lead and mentor staff, form long-term client relationships, pursue new work, and build water client portfolios including strategy development, positioning, proposing, and negotiating contracts

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Civil, Mechanical, and/or Environmental Engineering
• Registration as a Professional Engineer (PE) 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

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Civil Engineering or a related engineering discipline
• Experience serving various clients involving conveyance pipeline design, project management, and 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
• Ability to purchase company stock at a discount
• Deferred compensation plan or Executive Deferral Plan (eligible employees)
• Unlimited U.S. Personalized Paid Time Off (PPTO) for full-time salaried/exempt employees
• Seven paid holidays
• Caregiver leave
• Eligibility for additional rewards including merit increases, performance discretionary bonus, and stock (certain roles)

Pay

Base salary range: $145,000.00 to $195,000.00. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Schedule

Hybrid working policy allowing employees to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations.