Program Manager - Transmission & Substation jobs at Jacobs in United States, Oakland

By developing and delivering on project scopes, budgets, reports, contracts, and schedules, you’ll help our teams achieve our client’s objectives. Your keen ability to multi-task, communicate effectively and tackle project

You’ll apply and grow your technical and/or management experience in natural resources and environmental planning and permitting to review projects, create a plan, and execute a permitting strategy. Your leadership will be key to realizing energy transformation for safer infrastructure operations, healthier communities, and protection of our world’s natural resources. No longer a secondary concern to human progress, environmental impacts now guide social and economic decisions around all horizontal and vertical infrastructure development.

Based out of one of our California offices, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to and manage projects and programs to avoid and minimize environmental impact while accelerating change through renewable energy, energy infrastructure, and energy transformation projects. As a Planner / Project Manager, you’ll lead environmental permitting and related efforts to support project development and be responsible for meeting client objectives and project-specific internal financial goals. Your analytical and writing skills will be called upon as you lead development of quality client deliverables. Your project management or task leadership will include permit strategy and impact avoidance and minimization, permit applications, client communication, technical memos, and environmental compliance documents. You’ll provide motivation and direction to project teams while you in turn are partnered with experienced project delivery and technical leaders and mentors to facilitate your project and career priorities. Our global team provides you with the tools to keep your career growing, as well as those around you.

When it comes to environmental consulting, we’re focused on advancing our clients’ bold environmental stewardship, energy transformation, and sustainability initiatives. We’re seeking a Senior Environmental Project Manager in the Oakland, CA area to lead siting, permitting, and licensing of critical energy infrastructure maintenance and replacement, renewable energy, and/or energy transformation projects.

The Power and Energy industry is at a junction whereby divergent paths are emerging, with quite distinct future scenarios. You will have the opportunity to contribute to and manage projects and programs to avoid and minimize environmental impact while accelerating change through renewable energy, energy infrastructure, and energy transformation projects.

As an Environmental Permitting and Planning Project Manager, you will lead environmental permitting and related efforts to support project development and meet client objectives and project-specific internal financial goals. Your analytical and writing skills will be called upon as you lead the development of quality client deliverables. Your project management or task leadership will include permit strategy and impact avoidance and minimization, permit applications, client communication, technical memos, and environmental compliance documents. You will provide motivation and direction to project teams, while you in turn are partnered with experienced project delivery and technical leaders and mentors to facilitate your project and career priorities. Our global team provides you with the tools to keep your career growing, as well as those around you.

When it comes to environmental consulting, we’re focused on advancing our clients’ bold environmental stewardship, energy transformation, and sustainability initiatives. We’re seeking a Senior Environmental Project Manager in the Oakland, CA area to lead siting, permitting, and licensing of critical energy infrastructure maintenance and replacement, renewable energy, and/or energy transformation projects.

The Power and Energy industry is at a junction whereby divergent paths are emerging, with quite distinct future scenarios. You will have the opportunity to contribute to and manage projects and programs to avoid and minimize environmental impact while accelerating change through renewable energy, energy infrastructure, and energy transformation projects.

As an Environmental Permitting and Planning Project Manager, you will lead environmental permitting and related efforts to support project development and meet client objectives and project-specific internal financial goals. Your analytical and writing skills will be called upon as you lead the development of quality client deliverables. Your project management or task leadership will include permit strategy and impact avoidance and minimization, permit applications, client communication, technical memos, and environmental compliance documents. You will provide motivation and direction to project teams, while you in turn are partnered with experienced project delivery and technical leaders and mentors to facilitate your project and career priorities. Our global team provides you with the tools to keep your career growing, as well as those around you.

When it comes to environmental consulting, we’re focused on advancing our clients’ bold environmental stewardship, energy transformation, and sustainability initiatives. We’re seeking a Senior Environmental Project Manager in the Oakland, CA area to lead siting, permitting, and licensing of critical energy infrastructure maintenance and replacement, renewable energy, and/or energy transformation projects.

The Power and Energy industry is at a junction whereby divergent paths are emerging, with quite distinct future scenarios. You will have the opportunity to contribute to and manage projects and programs to avoid and minimize environmental impact while accelerating change through renewable energy, energy infrastructure, and energy transformation projects.

As an Environmental Permitting and Planning Project Manager, you will lead environmental permitting and related efforts to support project development and meet client objectives and project-specific internal financial goals. Your analytical and writing skills will be called upon as you lead the development of quality client deliverables. Your project management or task leadership will include permit strategy and impact avoidance and minimization, permit applications, client communication, technical memos, and environmental compliance documents. You will provide motivation and direction to project teams, while you in turn are partnered with experienced project delivery and technical leaders and mentors to facilitate your project and career priorities. Our global team provides you with the tools to keep your career growing, as well as those around you.

This position will offer you the opportunity to manage and further grow a project team consisting of engineers involved in managing projects through various phases from concept to engineering design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and close-out of new and modified existing high voltage transmission, substation, and distribution facilities in the power industry. You will work as a lead across a multi-disciplinary team to manage the overall successful delivery of the assigned project(s) and to ensure projects adhere to client expectations.

• In accordance with the Client’s Project Management process, prepare and/or update financial forecasts, project schedules, and other necessary reports on a weekly or monthly basis, or as required.
• Lead project meetings, arrange for meeting minutes and distribute notes and actions to all project team members.
• Manage client relationships to ensure all expectations are understood and met. Work with the broader Jacobs team as necessary to ensure stewardship of positive client relationships, including active involvement in the resolution of any client concerns.
• Monitor assigned projects to minimize risk and adhere to project budget, schedule, scope, and quality and identifying / mitigating risks as they arise.
• Manage project communications and promptly respond to project inquiries from client management or support teams as necessary.
• Notify project stakeholder immediately if the project is forecast to exceed the approved budget or schedule or if significant project risks or issues have been identified.
• Perform and/or facilitate project administrative activities including purchase and change orders, work status verification, processing of unvouchered liabilities, invoice reviews and updating overall project status.
• Coordinate engineering design development, drawing submittals and quality review process.
• Manage the resolution of emergent field issues as they arise, in accordance with all codes, environmental, and safety requirements.
• Track and manage project compliance (non-regulatory and regulatory).
• Support resolution of any siting/permitting, municipality, and/or abutter issues.
• Facilitate contractor sourcing activities including issuing RFP’s, bid analysis, and award recommendations.
• Lead in developing and pursuing business opportunities with existing or new potential clients.
• Support Jacobs operational and business development teams with proposals or other materials for new business opportunities.

Responsibilities:

· Create and maintain project plans — define activities, work breakdown structures, predecessors, successors, resources, and baselines

· Prepare business cases, contingency releases, and manage project budgets within established project governance rules

· Develop, monitor, and update cash flow projections

· Ensure project scope control and documentation is maintained

· Analyze and report on variances for project cost and schedule

· Create and maintain Excel spreadsheets for reporting and analysis

· Measure the progress of activities and milestones in project plans

· Lead meetings for project scoping, constructability review, design review, competitive bid, construction inspection, commissioning, and as-built incorporation.

· Negotiate and execute contracts, process change orders and report actual costs

· Drive consensus, communicate responsibilities, and ensure ownership and accountability

· Arbitrate and resolve conflicts within the project

· Manage change control, involving project sponsor and stakeholders

· Conduct design and drawing reviews on-site with various project stakeholders to identify and mitigate any issues and challenges identified during this process

· Prepare and present timely and actionable status updates

· Facilitate focused and cross-functional meetings and calls

· Draft and communicate meeting minutes, risk registers, decision logs and status reports

· Represent the client to government agencies and make presentations to senior management and stakeholders

· Work with various government entities in submitting and obtaining permit approvals

· Interact with customers concerning land rights

· Lead the project team in identifying, tracking, and mitigating risks, issues, and opportunities

· Escalate risks and issues in order to keep projects on schedule and on budget

· Identify and communicate lessons learned and incorporate into projects as best practices