Transportation Manager Projects Mop jobs at Jacobs in United States, Orlando

As ain, you’ll lead high-impact roadway and highway projects for Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) and municipal clients. Beyond technical expertise, this role demands strong business acumen, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and with maximum value for our clients and organization.

What You’ll Do:

• Drive profitability – Oversee project budgets, optimize resources, and turn projects into high-value investments.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams – Manage engineers, planners, and designers to keep projects on schedule and aligned with business goals.
• Serve as Engineer of Record – Take ownership of designs, ensuring technical accuracy, compliance, and successful project delivery.
• Strategically manage project delivery – Ensure technical excellence while balancing cost efficiency and revenue generation.
• Strengthen client relationships – Actively engage with FDOT, municipal agencies, and stakeholders to expand business opportunities.
• Implement innovative solutions – Drive alternative delivery methods that enhance efficiency and project success.

As a

How You'll Contribute:

• Serve as the point of contact for client service activities and develop strategies to grow the transportation practice for various clients in Central Florida
• Identify, charter, and lead client service teams comprised of multi-disciplinary project managers and regional practice leaders around common vision of success
• Facilitate creation of deep, personal, valuable client relationships between Jacob’s personnel and client personnel (management, technical, functional, delivery) to weave a fabric of broad-based relationships between our firm and the clients
• Advocate on client's behalf by actively engaging the firm to address client needs, and recommend strategic actions to optimize our business development investment and market share growth
• Identify higher levels of client engagement for executive sponsors
• Secure management commitment and influence/attract key staff for pursuits
• Work with office/corporate leaders to develop strategies for key hiring on strategic pursuits, identifying key project pursuits, team growth, office growth, profitability, employee development and employee satisfaction
• Actively engage with project and Sales teams to influence pursuit team on sales process discipline, win strategy and proposal development, interviews and presentations
• Coordinate and facilitate the Sales process, including Go/No Go decisions, and help develop required sales costs aligned with opportunity potential and return on investment objectives
• Participate in local industry events and community engagement

This is a
hybrid role.Ideally, you will work from a local Jacobs office on average 2 days per week. This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

In this role, you will

• Manage medium to large complex SCADA /OT projects with multidiscipline teams executed from multiple office locations for large state and local government, municipal, and industrial projects.
• Manage several projects of various sizes and durations at the same time.
• Lead and manage the project team through all phases of project planning, execution, and closeout, consistent with established project delivery processes to meet the scope, schedule, budget, and other specified requirements stated in the contract.
• Complete the scope of work to the satisfaction of the client, while simultaneously ensuring that Jacobs staff safety, product quality, project financial, risk management, business, and policy expectations are met.
• Lead business development activities resulting in the award of a contract. This could include client relationship development, project-specific positioning activities, proposal preparation, oral presentation, and contract negotiation consistent with established business development processes.
• Be responsible for the development and execution of SCADA Master Plans.
• Lead project teams during start-up and commissioning activities.
• Possess general knowledge of control system code (PLC and HMI) and be involved with preparing specifications and drawings.
• Provide general supervision and mentoring to junior staff for the development of design drawings and specifications.
• Work as part of a team and independently to evaluate, select, and apply standard engineering techniques and procedures.
• Conduct site evaluations and make recommendations for control systems upgrades.
• Travel as needed for projects to support control system commissioning and startups.
• Drive ownership of health & safety in all aspects of project execution, office, and personal environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as Project Manager for highway and bridge design projects, including operational and safety improvements.
• Lead technical teams in developing solutions to complex roadway design challenges, requiring a high degree of innovation and ingenuity.
• Provide technical expertise by formulating and developing advanced design concepts, techniques, and standards.
• Ensure effective utilization of engineering personnel while maintaining high technical quality standards.
• Collaborate with business development and marketing teams to secure new projects and expand client relationships.