Federal Design Project Manager jobs at Jacobs in United States, Honolulu

As a key member, you’ll have the chance to work on challenging projects as the Project Manager and Technical Lead – planning, directing, and monitoring all aspects of projects with high degrees of technical complexity from (but not limited to) the concept stage through detailed design, construction services, and commissioning. Among the many types of projects led by this team are pipelines, pump stations, water and wastewater treatment facilities, and green stormwater infrastructure. You will be leading a multidiscipline team to complete tasks within established schedules and budgets and help advance our business development strategies. Also, you will have the opportunity to mentor and coach early and mid-career engineers and designers and be mentored by senior staff. Nurturing your existing and developing new relationships, you will help to identify new opportunities in which Jacobs Hawaii can further service our clients and communities.

Our commitment to you:

• Mentoring. Jacobs offers formal and informal mentoring programs, including dedicated budget for you to spend as you are mentored and mentor others.
• Training. From project management skills to safety to technical topics, Jacobs provides you the training you need to do your job, and to take the next step in your career.
• Career Development. Our depth and breadth of projects in the water market means there’s a place for your interests. You will develop a career path plan with regional leadership, identifying the kinds of projects and programs you want to grow into over time, incorporating your passions and interests.

As a Water Manager of Projects (MOP), Group Leader (GL) and Project Manager (PM), you will be a leader in improving water and wastewater infrastructure across Hawaii. In general, you’ll engage in challenging water projects including pipelines, pump stations, water and wastewater treatment facilities, and green stormwater infrastructure, leading all aspects from concept stage through detailed design, construction services, and commissioning. You will assist with business development, including strategy development, positioning, proposing, and negotiating contracts to grow our business. You will also establish and maintain strong client relationships by communicating on technical design topics and project schedule/budget/scope to develop long term strategies for continued market success. You will be responsible for leading project teams and communicating between diverse design disciplines for the delivery of designs and related studies. Join our team and help us continue our contributions to improve water and wastewater infrastructure across Hawaii.

Specifically as MOP, you’ll be a critical member of the Jacobs Hawaii Leadership, representing the Buildings and Infrastructure Americas (BIA) Hawaii Water Market. You’ll work closely with the BIA Northwest (NW) Water Director of Operations , other Department and Group Leaders (DLs and GLs), and Client Account Managers (CAMs) to provide guidance and leadership within the NW Water group. You’ll use your strong inspirational leadership skills by providing mentoring and career development for PMs, including coaching and improving skills in scoping and budgeting of projects, project execution, and overall client management and satisfaction. As a MOP you will promote inclusion and diversity within the project teams in your portfolio. Ultimately, MOPs develop an environment for the PM’s financial and professional success. You’ll use your passion for focusing on staff management (for PMs) and a desire to focus on helping our PMs to deliver successful solutions for our clients.

You’ll also be involved in working with our CAMs, participating in various sales activities such as go/no-gos, teaming strategies, and middle/end game activities for strategic pursuits. You will be expected to coordinate with Group Leaders (GLs) for staff needs and workload planning. As a MOP, you will drive the delivery of budgeted Gross Margin (GM) for a portfolio of projects and aligned PMs. You’ll enhance GM results by focusing on change management, cash management, prioritizing appropriate geographical staff mixes, and ensuring delivery of high-quality value-added services to our clients. You’ll also review and approve proposal/project contract and fee documents relative to risk management, pricing strategy, and quality assurance. The MOP will ensure adherence to Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) requirements for all projects in their portfolio and aligned PMs. You’ll partner with the Geographic and Performance Unit Financial and Project Controls leads and staff for Business Plan Forecasting and to ensure that Project estimates to completion (ETC’s) are forecasted accurately. You’ll also ensure compliance with all Jacobs financial policies, legal and contractual requirements, procedures, protocols, and work instructions and use of our project tools. Key accountabilities include eliminating/reducing financial surprises, improving clarity around performance expectations, establishing focus on project performance and delivering to expectations, focus on improving gaps in margin and operations performance and drive to achieve a state of quality control rigor and consistency.

As a Water GL, you’ll be called upon to use your inspirational leadership skills to provide mentoring and coaching to Water Group staff aligned to you, including development of annual priorities, career goals, and performance reviews.  You’ll also be responsible for promoting inclusion and diversity within the office and the Water Team, working to ensure that all staff are given meaningful and equitable opportunities to progress their careers within Jacobs. This role will also require you to ensure billability metrics are met by your aligned staff. This is an opportunity to provide leadership and support staff as part of our growing Hawaii and broader Northwest Water team.

In this role you’ll:

•    Deliver projects across Hawaii, including conveyance, storage, water treatment, wastewater treatment, and planning.

•    Provide leadership and coordination to multi-discipline teams.

•    Manage and/or lead projects in accordance with the contract requirements and Jacobs’ business processes, driving profitability and building new business opportunities.

•    Support the development of strategies and tactics related to key client programs, projects, and overall portfolios.

•    Collaborate with cross business market teams to build delivery teams and complete projects and programs.

•    Work with business development and sales staff in their efforts to position for new opportunities and/or the preparation of proposals.

•    Promote a culture of caring, quality, safety, and inclusion and diversity

•    Partner with the operations and sales leadership team to grow and maintain sustainable work pipelines

•    Develop strategy for hiring and group growth in the Hawaii market and act as the hiring manager

•    Coach, develop, and mentor staff, at technical and project management levels, to deliver superior results collectively and individually

•    Build team culture in concert with overall performance unit and company goals and strategy

Specifically as MOP, you will:

• Mentor and coach aligned project managers that you will supervise
• Review and approve Project Risk Register/Mitigation Plans, Project Execution Plans, and Project Quality Plans
• Conduct monthly Project Reviews on projects and document critical issues and actions
• Attend Project Administrative Reviews (PARs) as required to discuss with geography and regional leadership about the portfolio that meet PAR thresholds
• Participate/lead Pricing Reviews for contracts and amendments
• Review accuracy of ETCs/EACs and address variances or issues with PMs
• Review and approve project financial workflows
• Work with global workforce delivery coordinator to engage global staff on Hawaii projects
• Be responsible for meeting and coordinating mitigation measures to comply with gross margin performance metrics of the portfolio.

Reporting directly to the Project Delivery Leader, this individual may work independently or lead a team of site-based CM staff. In a client-advisory capacity, the CM focuses on facilitation with the A/E and Contractors during execution of one or more projects and is accountable for applying best practices for managing scope, schedule, cost, and quality during construction. Other general duties and responsibilities include:

• Client representation during building design and construction centered on cost, schedule, scope, and quality management

• Facilitating meetings and communication across multiple stakeholders and utilizing the latest project management control systems

• Assisting in the development scopes and budgets for building projects

• Evaluating potential Changes in the Work and assisting the client with mitigating construction cost and schedule risks

• Monitoring schedule performance, approving payment requisitions, and generating executive-level progress reports

• Assigning and maximizing contributions from technical resources supporting the project

• Expediting actions and actively engaging in resolution of issues arising during design and construction

• Managing site-based staff within a fast-paced work environment.

This position is a “dual-hatted” role and requires someone with great leadership skills and flexibility to juggle often competing demands of the two roles. Solid people skills as well as project organizational skills are needed.

The Federal Regional PM Director role provides management of a team of Federal project managers who are responsible for the delivery of building design, renovation and consulting projects within budget and on schedule. This includes leading multi-discipline project delivery teams in the development of construction drawings and specifications in accordance with Federal client requirements. In addition to leading a team of PMs, this position also requires direct interface with clients and management of active projects as a project manager.

This position reports directly to the Federal West Operations Lead and has leadership and supervisory responsibilities for the PMs and the technical architectural and engineering teams located in the Hawaii. This position must coordinate with other Federal Design leaders to promote consistent delivery. This position works closely with other Federal Geography operations to balance workload and maintain Federal initiatives, trainings and culture.

Key to success will be a management style that is founded on mutual trust, empowerment, and design excellence.

Group Leader Responsibilities:

• Promotes BeyondZero and safety programs to create an incident- and injury-free culture.

• Day to day management of assigned staff including forecasting using Work Force Planning.

• Must balance utilization across levels to ensure staffing profitability and overhead expectations.

• Manages performance and helps talent grow and develop; Stewards career development-basic skill development and sustainment, growth opportunities and skill refinement.

• Mentors and trains PM team members in project management methods, procedures and activities.

• Acts as hiring manager for required staff, establishes hiring plans; integrates new hires.

• Holds the staff accountable for delivery of projects meeting client expectations and within cost budget and schedules and to the quality standards expected by the client and company.

• Communicates with aligned staff through regular team meetings and individual check-in meetings.

• Approves timesheets and expenses for aligned staff.

• Billability target: 80%

Project Management Responsibilities:

• Responsible for delivering large and/or multiple projects, on time, within budget and to agreed specifications and providing effective, skilled project management to help reduce the costs of delivering projects.

• Leading teams in the project execution to accomplish project commitments and timing.

• Assesses project requirements, while developing and recommending a sound approach or application to meet the needs of the project and client.

• Facilitates the creation of communication plans, ensuring that appropriate information is exchanged among key stakeholders, and conducts status review meetings among project team members and clients.

• Develops cost proposals to respond to client requests.

• Determines, monitors and reviews costs, operational budgets, schedules, and staffing needs for project teams.

• Responsible for ongoing financial reporting throughout project execution.

• Manages and enhances project quality. Assures compliance with the company’s quality control and quality assurance requirements for assigned projects.

• Functions as a single point of contact with clients.

• Travel as needed for on-site survey and charrette activities, sometimes at overseas locations. Travel may be expected to be approximately 10-15% of total time, and of short-term (one week) duration per trip.

• Partnering across the globe to create the best project outcomes by maximizing the design, digital technology, and support capabilities of our Global Integrated Delivery (GID) teammates.

We’re seeking a Project Manager to be based in Honolulu, HI. As a member of our team, you will lead design projects consisting of multi-discipline teams of engineers and architects from design kick-off through construction. You will primarily support federal projects for DoD clients, Federal Civilian, and various Defense Contractors with Design-Bid-Build and Design-Build delivery methods.

You’ll lead projects by effective, skilled project management techniques to enhance the design solutions, leverage project delivering costs, and add value to the business. You’ll play an integral role in forming long-term client relationships, engaging team members on projects, and collaborating with talented resources throughout Jacobs.

Responsibilities include:

• Successfully manage multiple projects simultaneously, completed on time, within project and construction budgets and in accordance with agreed scope.
• Serve as the primary point of contact with the client from beginning to end.
• Develop the project proposal fees and scope by coordination with discipline directors and design leads for specific budget and scope definition to then lead in fee negotiations with the client.
• Facilitate the creation of communication plans, ensuring that appropriate information is exchanged among key stakeholders, and conduct status review meetings among project team members and clients through project execution.
• Determine, monitor and manage: financial project metrics, schedules and staffing requirements for each project.
• Guide the overall development and quality of the project documents and adherence with Jacobs Quality Program.