Principal/technical Director - Program Project Controls jobs at Jacobs in Australia, Sydney

The purpose of therole is to provide technical and professional leadership in the field of Aboriginal cultural heritage.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and contributing to winning opportunities through strong client relationships and proposal writing, providing technical leadership, coaching and mentorship within the Jacobs heritage team and beyond.
• Leading and supporting the delivery of a wide range of heritage projects, including working collaboratively with a range of disciplines and staff experience levels.
• Provide high level technical and professional leadership, project management experience and business development support to our heritage teams across Australia and New Zealand.

We're looking for an experienced and collaborative Wastewater Lead who will lead and deliver projects with key municipal clients. As Wastewater Lead, you will leverage your project management, technical experience, and leadership skills to optimize the delivery team’s performance and consistently deliver high-quality technical solutions for our clients. You'll work on infrastructure projects, evaluating and selecting the best treatment approach to solve a client’s challenges, along with planning and designing treatment systems and plant improvements. As part of our team, you will have the opportunity to work with a variety of treatment processes, and you’ll play an important role in improving the resiliency of our clients’ assets. The Wastewater Lead should have a demonstrated record of successful project delivery, maintaining client relationships, and working to ensure that Jacobs is the consultant-of-choice. Bring your ability to multitask in a fast-paced consulting environment, and we’ll provide you with exciting and challenging opportunities to expand your career.

Jacobs’ South Atlantic water practice has more than 400 high-performing individuals delivering innovative solutions to top-tier clients. The Wastewater Lead role is based in our Atlanta, GA, office and will support projects across Georgia and the Southeast region with opportunities to engage in projects throughout North America and across the globe. You will engage in a variety of project assignments – including many of the largest water infrastructure projects in the Southeast market – and serve our municipal, federal, industrial, and other clients.

Here’s what you’ll do

• Lead the project management and technical delivery of projects through 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 the contract.
• Support Jacobs’ One Water initiative, specifically Water Resource Recovery Solutions for the Americas East Region.
• Drive the integration of Digital Water Solutions and Climate Resilience across Jacobs’ Growth & Sales efforts.
• Support the Americas Southeast Geography Water Market growth strategy in the wastewater practice.
• Contribute to the development of a Water Market strategy that delivers leading-edge technology solutions for our clients while actively diversifying and expanding our client base.
• Identify and participate in business development activities that result in the award of new contracts. This typically includes client relationship development, project-specific positioning activities, proposal preparation, and verbal presentations consistent with established business development processes.
• Attract, develop, and retain top talent by actively coaching/mentoring, sponsoring, and training our people. This includes actively participating in global Communities of Practice to share technical knowledge and lessons learned across offices/regions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead project transition activities to include; facility activation, training & education, relocation management / patient moves, and decommissioning.

• Implementation of technology into the transition planning and activation planning process to elevate communication to the client and team.

• Project leadership and management of overall coordination of critical activates pertaining to design, construction, medical equipment, IT infrastructure and equipment, FF&E, logistics, facility, and property management, 24/7 clinical operations and administrative issues.

• Overview and/or leading team meetings, development of complex owner activities schedules, aiding Client personnel on transition and relocation practices, interaction with clinical and non-clinical departments to understand their mission and how they interact with other departments, monitoring project progress, coordination of third-party vendors and establishing and managing related budgets.

• Raise issues, risks, and exceptions; develop clear remediations and mitigations; follow-through to resolution.

• Manage projects to successful completion, meeting deliverable quality, schedule commitments, cost budgets, and performance targets.

• Assist the Team with codifying best service delivery practices and work with junior personnel in their professional development in our services.