Senior Hydraulic Modeler jobs at Jacobs in United States, Chicago

When you join us as a Senior Project Manager, you will have the opportunity to provide senior transportation engineering expertise. You’ll be responsible for the quality of project work performed, client service, utilization of staff, scope and fee development, negotiate hours, contract management, billing collection, and project profitability for transportation and infrastructure projects.

When you join Jacobs as a key member of the team, we’ll look to you to maintain a positive relationship with current clients and assist in business development and execution of local marketing. You will also be responsible for researching and tracking future project opportunities with the Client Account Manager. Additionally, you’ll initiate and review proposals and participate in interviews and presentations.

• Selling the services of Jacobs as a Senior Project/Program Manager or Senior Project Executive. Ideal candidate should have client and consultant relationships and experience / expertise in Illinois and be able to sell primarily Phase 1 and Phase 2 services based on recent experience.

• Providing strategic business development leadership, working closely with Jacobs Client Account Managers, Client Service Leaders, and Sales Operations teams in pursuit of major transportation opportunities in the area. This is accomplished by advancing long-term existing relationships with transportation clients at the state, city and county levels, leading the development of execution strategies, supporting proposal and presentation preparation activities and, developing and applying lessons learned during contract execution. This also includes supporting the development and periodic update of client account plans for work in this arena.

• Have overall responsibility for the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of a project . Lead the planning, staffing, scheduling, budget management, quality control, safety, and organization of internal technical and support staff, and subcontractors for the project.

• Providing expertise in developing concepts for programs and design approaches for major phases of large highway infrastructure projects, including Design-Build and Public-Private Partnerships. Extensive participation in internal team meetings/workshops and client workshops is anticipated.

• Coordination with all complimentary disciplines (roadway, drainage, structural, traffic, public involvement and environmental), technical preparation and supervision of roadway and planning design tasks, perform plan quality reviews, participate in value engineering studies.

• Represents Jacobs at meetings, presentations, and public hearings relative to assigned projects. Actively participating in transportation and other professional associations and transportation industry events such as ACEC, WTS, ASCE, TRB, AASHTO, etc. to establish, improve, and maintain a business network beneficial for personal development, to advance client knowledge and relationships, and to help identify future prospects.

➡️ As our Cost Engineering Lead, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the financial health and success of our programmes.

➡️ Your expertise will drive accurate cost control, robust forecasting, and value optimization, directly influencing the efficiency and effectiveness of our project delivery.

➡️ By establishing performance measurement techniques and supporting risk and change management, you will provide critical insights that shape our strategic decisions and project outcomes.

📈 Innovation: Be at the forefront of innovative approaches to major complex civil infrastructure programmes

We Offer

💷 Competitive salary: We offer compensation that reflects your skills and experience

🏖️ 24 days holiday + option to buy a further 10 days

4️⃣ Life assurance at 4x your salary

♿ Income Protection: Financial security in case of long-term illness or injury

😄 Wellbeing Hub: Free access to wellbeing apps like Calm and Daily Burn

💼 Professional Development: We cover professional membership fees and provide continuous professional development (CPD) opportunities

In this Cost Engineering Lead role, you will:

✅ Ensure Compliance and Functional Direction: Adhere to Programme Controls Policy, Strategy, and Plan, while providing direction for Cost Engineering and aligning with other PMO functions

✅ Manage and Control Costs: Develop and improve Cost Management systems, ensuring accurate cost control, change and baseline management, and robust forecasting

✅ Implement Earned Value Management (EVM): Establish performance measurement of projects using EVM and similar techniques, providing data-driven insights into performance

✅ Drive Risk and Change Management: Align risk and cost processes to support forecasts, and proactively support the identification and management of risk and change

✅ Collaborate and Coordinate: Work with Cost Engineers and Control Account Managers to standardize and ensure consistency of Cost Management processes, supporting other Programme Controls functions as required

✅ Manage Reporting and Interfaces: Ensure the reported cost position is accurate and reconcilable, managing the cost interface with other functional leads and supporting monthly Board Reporting data on cost-related matters

When it comes to environmental consulting, we’re focused on cleaning up our communities today to improve tomorrow. We’re seeking a Senior Air Quality Modeler to oversee projects on air dispersion modeling in air permitting. You’ll serve as a technical specialist and lead for our Air Permitting, Modeling, Monitoring, and Reporting team.

Understanding and promoting Jacobs’ solutions and technologies to internal and external stakeholders. This position may require some travel to client or team workshops, presentations, or to conduct site visits. The role will be predominantly office-based, but periodic field assignments may be required. Bring your expertise in air quality and desire to work on tough problems, and we’ll empower you to deliver the boldest solutions for our clients.

As our newest team member, you’ll play an active role in the development of plans, specifications and estimates critical infrastructure projects. We’d provide you professional development working with other Professional Engineers. Joining our team, you’ll have the chance to work on exciting and engaging large-scale infrastructure projects and utilize your electrical design expertise to create innovative solutions.

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.

At Jacobs, our PMCM team works seamlessly with clients by delivering projects and programs that achieve our clients’ goals. What we do is more than construction; we play a part in moving a vision from concept to reality. If you’re interested in a rewarding career working on ENR's #1 Program Management and Construction Management-for-Fee firm, then Jacobs is where you belong.

Chicago, ILis looking to add ain support of a multi-billion-dollar airport capital Redevelopment Program. The redevelopment will occur in the middle of an active airport. The existing terminal and concourses will remain operational while the new facility is built in place in a phased approach.

We are looking for a driven and collaborative Senior Program Controls Manager to join our Program Management Team in Chicago. As a key member of our team, you’ll provide the day-to-day leadership, support, and execution of project controls functions for various projects and programs. You will be responsible for budget/cost control, change management analysis, forecasting, and reporting.

Reporting directly to the Program Director, the Senior Program Control Manager will be responsible for managing a large group of project controls professionals and several departments including scheduling, cost controls, cost estimation, IT/Systems, PMIS, reporting, and document controls.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Be the point of contact for Operations, Project Director and client in all aspects relating to Project Controls Services.
• Ensure alignment between project services, design and construction teams to support the Program needs.
• Attend and support Operations status review meetings
• Ensures the integrity of the project budget through approved scope changes
• Support estimate development
• Manage the effort to develop and maintain resource loaded P6 program master schedule
• Monitor, analyze, and report on progress, cost and schedule variances, and forecasts
• Flags significant projected overruns or underruns
• Plan and budget the project controls resources and systems necessary to support the project.
• Understand and stay current on business/industry trends and the implications for project controls functions.
• Serve as the focal point for all matters relating to estimating, planning/scheduling, and cost control.
• Create, implement, and execute project controls plan to support contract requirements and the successful execution of project controls.
• Resolve issues and provide consistency between the cost control, planning/scheduling, and estimating functions and deliverables.
• Analyze and evaluate project status and recommend corrective actions.
• Monitor market conditions, pricing and escalation indexes, and suggest escalation factors for future programworks.
• Perform senior project controls manager functions as required.

This position provides the opportunity to engage with our clients, evaluate their energy needs, develop concept-level plans and solutions, and then take these through detailed design to provide for full execution of the solution. We offer and deliver a true “end to end” life-cycle service from exploration, development, operation, and repowering/retirement. Demonstrated abilities include a broad understanding of power systems and electrical engineering sciences. Experience in consulting, design, design management and project management will be highly regarded, as will experience in Owner’s Engineer roles or contract management, and advisory (technical advisor/due diligence) roles as well as strategic project development experience.

Your primary responsibilities will focus on leading an electrical engineering team to provide advisory services and engineering design solutions for clients across all market sectors. You will collaborate with our Client Account Managers and sales professionals on pursuits of strategic importance to the firm. You’ll be expected to possess highly collaborative and sophisticated communication and problem-solving skills. Successful candidates will have a demonstrated ability to anticipate challenges and manage “up and out” while supporting large teams responsible for the daily details of project delivery.