Jobs at Jacobs in United States, Greenwood Village

Responsibilities include setting up and supporting CAD/BIM systems, coordinating the setup and administration of the Common Data Environment, facilitating digital training and induction for the project team, and maintaining digital registers including MIDP and TIDP. The coordinator will also manage information exchange of modeling outputs from each discipline, federate models, promote adoption by the project team, conduct model review meetings, manage clash detection and reporting, and administer issue resolution.

The successful applicant will maintain high work standards, minimise errors, and pay attention to detail. They will work cooperatively, respect others' opinions to achieve team objectives, and perform steadily during peak workload while remaining calm under pressure. Familiarity with automating repetitive activities and coding bespoke processes will be an advantage.

Based out of any US office, this position requires strong leadership and communication skills, knowledge of business and proposal development processes, and the ability to unite multidisciplinary teams from various business functions to execute a coherent capture plan. As a leader of proposals and sales deliverables for a variety of environmental services projects, you are responsible for the quality of the final product as measured through the four C’s—compelling, compliant, clear, and credible. You will lead the management of client deliverables across the pursuit lifecycle with a focus on strategy development for positioning and proposal deliverables. You will facilitate the development of win strategy sessions with associated action plans, client-focused value propositions and win themes and drive a disciplined relationship-based sales (RBS) process to achieve consistent, quality results.

As a Capture Manager/Proposal Manager you will:

• Facilitate strategy sessions for specific opportunities, clients, accounts, and/or geographies.

• Support account and capture teams in integrating pursuit strategy and win themes. Lead the integration of the pursuit strategy/win themes into proposals.

• Analyze complex issues and use sound judgment and experience to develop solutions for a wide range of sales-related activities and issues.

• Lead proposal efforts and deliverables including win strategy development, active middle game activities, and proposal deliverables.

• Lead the proposal development process, including meeting client requirements, internal and external schedule milestones, and proposal budget.

• Proactively communicate issues/variances, resource needs, or other issues; seek input and support, and help develop solutions in a timely manner.

• Independently perform research, writing, editing, and proposal production and coordination for various sales/business development efforts.

• Assemble and charter proposal team, production staff (graphic design, document publishing, production staff, technical writer/editor), and review teams to streamline proposal development and maximize the document quality.

• Work with technical teams to develop outlines for compliant, responsive technical content and conceptual-level proposal graphics.

• Facilitate effective communication between supporting functions including technology, estimating, contracting, and project controls staff during proposal development.

• Understand and apply Jacobs’ sales best practices and processes for opportunity assessment, proposal development, and knowledge management.

• Demonstrate excellent oral and written communication and active listening skills.

• Use communication and negotiation skills to guide, influence, and coordinate others.

• Implement company image/brand guidelines on assigned projects.

• Accurately budget and track level of effort for proposal team.

As the Colorado Area/Department Leader for the Transportation Market, you'll be responsible for direct reports of Group Leaders (GLs) and Managers of Projects (MOPs), with the fundamental goal of supporting the growth of our business and staff in close partnership with sales leadership in the area. This position will be located in one of our Denver area offices and require three days per week in the office.

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Work in partnership with our Director of Operations (DO) and other leaders to deliver the operational performance for the PU (achieve gross margin goals, manage the General & Administrative to budget, hire for growth)

- Coordinate across the market, geography, region, and globally to optimize resource management/workload leveling and provide opportunities for staff growth.

- In close coordination with MOPs, drive performance expectations and accountability related to meeting quality expectations on all delivered work.

- Manage staff performance and career development, utilizing our performance process and succession planning.

- Act as hiring manager where appropriate for new staff locally, working in concert with others around established hiring plans

- Partner with Market Solutions Leaders, Market Growth Directors and Client Account Managers to action growth strategy supporting staffing proposals, identify appropriate staffing for projects, deliver differentiated solutions to clients, and support staff growth, development, and career opportunities.

Role and responsibilities

• Oversees content development and program management for internal and external client-facing deliverables, including project annual reports, technical documents, client presentations and related sales-support materials.

• Assists in implementing communication strategies, tactics and activities to ensure ongoing, consistent and targeted communications.

• Supports the execution of digital marketing campaigns.

• Assists with the development of social media content to support communication activities.

• Contributes to internal and external communications, including internal newsletters and magazines, digital signage, the company website and more.

• Monitors media coverage and researches emerging industry trends.

• Other duties as assigned.

• Schedule, manage and prepare for monthly Project Review Process (OPRs)

• Assist project team with pricing proposals, setup of Pricing Tools and attend Pricing Reviews

• Support project teams with setup of CDRS, AutoPAP, IPCS and Polaris

• Review contract terms & conditions and apply project control principles to optimize financial outcome

• Work collaboratively with Project Managers, Managers of Projects and Project Team members

• Setup, forecast and maintain project financials in our internal project controls system (IPCS)

• Complete monthly forecasting to ensure an accurate Estimate At Completion (EAC)

• Assist with Invoice review

• Interact with Project Managers, Operations Management, Accounting and PC Teams

• Update and maintain various project-specific reports as needed

• Prepare monthly business summary for PAR and review with Manager of Projects

• Attend and schedule monthly PM Reviews, OPR and PAR reviews

• Complete and submit Review and Rev Rec Workflow within monthly deadlines

• Prepare forecasts working with Project Managers, Operations Management and Sales

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the owner and developer of estimating tool kits and cost models for water/wastewater O&M projects
• Produce comprehensive estimating plans for pursuit opportunities
• Develop comprehensive cost estimates for water and wastewater O&M projects, including detailed analysis of the "big five" cost categories: people/staffing, power, chemicals, maintenance, and
• sludge/residuals management
• Review and interpret solicitation documents, including RFPs, draft service agreements, and contracts to ensure accurate estimate development
• Create "apples to apples" comparisons between incumbent operating costs and proposed costs, requiring thorough review of existing agreements and financial information
• Develop innovative approaches to operations and maintenance with a focus on cost efficiency ("build the better mouth strap")
• Identify risk areas in estimate development and participate in mitigation planning
• Organize and structure effective meetings with pursuit teams to gather information and present findings
• Produce effective PowerPoint presentations that summarize cost, price, and risk assessments for senior leadership
• Demonstrate knowledge of the competitive market space, including bidding strategies and common win themes
• Ensure consistency between project estimates, project breakdown frameworks, and project schedules
• Estimate costs and cumulative impacts of proposed design or construction changes
• Support procurement by analyzing subcontractor pricing to determine fair and reasonable costs
• Collaborate with business group managers, principal estimators, project/construction managers, and project teams
• Apply knowledge of regulatory requirements and industry standards to estimate development
• Research and analyze market trends affecting operational costs in the water/wastewater sector
• Present and defend estimates to internal stakeholders and clients
• Mentor junior estimators and share technical knowledge

*Our ideal candidate is someone that is either a current/former O&M estimator, a current/former project manager or above (area/geographic manager), or an O&M/technical/Ops Specialist who has extensive experience supporting O&M projects.

In this role you’ll:

· Participate in planning, design, and construction of airfield lighting and navigational aid projects

· Perform electrical related design tasks or projects in support of project and design managers

· Typical projects require preparation of bidding documents (plans & specifications) including lighting layout, site development, power distribution, lighting controls, electrical facilities, airfield navigational aids, signage, coordination with other disciplines, quantity takeoffs, design reports, cost estimates, and construction scheduling

· Perform, assist or oversee construction-related tasks including on-site construction observation and project engineering