Area/department Leader - Transportation Market 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.

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.

We’re excited about the innovative ways we can change the world. Our solutions are creative and influence how we live. Every day, we apply our knowledge across transportation and infrastructure projects; big and small, global and local. Our Mountain West Transportation Group is seeking to hire a senior level
Transportation Drainage Engineerwith +10-15 years of experience in our Greenwood Village, Colorado office to support our highway, bridge, and transit projects throughout Colorado and the western United States.

As a Senior Transportation Drainage Engineer, you will use your experience to lead our drainage discipline teams on our transportation projects in a collaborative and fast paced environment. Your typical work assignments may include onsite storm drainage analysis and design, offsite cross drainage and floodplain hydraulic impacts analysis and design, erosion control, water quality analysis, preparation of technical reports and memoranda, preparation of construction plans, estimates, and specifications (PS&E), and participating in business development efforts as required. In this role, you will have the opportunity to exercise judgment and make recommendations in the creation and development of storm drainage studies and plans for complex, multidisciplinary traditional PS&E, schematics and feasibility analyses, and/or Design-Build projects with CDOT and other transportation / public works agencies. We consistently receive high rankings from Engineering News-Record (ENR) in many classifications, including the categories of Top ENR Design Firms, Top Contractors, Top Green Buildings Design Firms, and Top Transportation Companies.

In this role you’ll:

• Provide technical leadership and oversight for drainage studies and detailed drainage design aspects in a multidiscipline fast track design-build and/or traditional delivery transportation related projects.

• Identify solutions to a variety of engineering and drainage design challenges.

• Manage drainage design PS&E packages and H&H floodplain impacts studies.

• Assign tasks and provide guidance and mentorship to drainage design team members, and coordinate QC reviews for project key milestone deliverables.

• Make decisions on significant design and engineering procedures as well as decisions on technical direction on the project as needed or requested.

• Participate in design review and coordination meetings internally and externally.

• Perform design and hydraulic modeling on all project aspects associated with conceptual planning, detailed engineering designs, and preparation of construction plans.

• Work with other Jacobs offices in a multi-projects delivery environment.

• Communicate effectively and coordinate all drainage design phases of a project with other team disciplines.

As a vital member of our team, based out of Jacobs’ local Denver office, you will have the chance to work on exciting and engaging large-scale projects and utilize your highway/roadway expertise to serve as a roadway project manager on transportation related projects. You’ll work with the best Engineers and Project Managers in the business, as well as gain experience working directly with our clients. We want you to be empowered to deliver the boldest solutions for your clients and we will provide resources to help you pursue opportunities that excite you.

You will participate in the development of our business strategy. You will proactively identify and solve complex problems; take a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions; and guide others in solving complex issues in specialized areas. We’ll rely on your leadership as you mentor and direct junior staff.

You’ll grow professionally with us as we rise together on impactful projects with a high degree of technical complexity from the concept stage through detailed design and construction services. You’ll be leading multidiscipline planning and design teams to complete tasks within established schedules and budgets and help advance our business development strategies. Your relationships with our clients and communities in the Southwest will support our growth with key and strategic pursuits of traditional planning and design projects as well as alternative delivery opportunities.

Additionally you’ll;

• Lead successful delivery of quality projects from conceptual design through preliminary, intermediate, and final design phases to construction

• Develop specifications, cost estimates, and prepare final bid packages

• Manage on-call contracts and sub-consultants

• Prepare scope, schedule, and budgets for projects and task orders

• Prepare or oversee the design for roadway, highway, and/or traffic engineering projects

• Identify creative and innovative solutions based on client, project, and site constraints

• Provide technical guidance, oversight, and perform quality reviews

• Train, direct, and mentor junior engineers

• Coordinate project milestones and workload with other project managers and group leads throughout the Southwest

• Assist and coordinate with client account management leads on project pursuits to win work

• Assist in business development and proposal efforts

• Maintain and/or develop relationships with new and existing clients to determine their needs and manage expectations

• Execute projects using the Jacobs project delivery processes

• Work with a manager of projects to grow your PM skillsets and business acumen