Project Coordinator Construction Sacramento jobs at Jacobs in United States, Sacramento

We’re seeking Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Structural, and Soil/Geotechnical Engineers, as well as Hydrologists, Environmental Planners, Biologists, Archeologists, Certified Floodplain Managers, Project Managers with Environment and Historic Preservation expertise, and Architectural Historians to deploy to Kansas City, Missouri and West Des Moines, Iowa to support FEMA in providing services to their applicants. You’ll help deliver the Public Assistance grant process (from applicant assignment to exit briefing) for applicants in the states of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. You could write Project Worksheets (PWs) for the purposes of determining project eligibility, scopes of work and estimating costs to repair or replace a facility or structure in order to restore it to its pre-disaster design. We’ll lean on you to provide technical, cost estimating, and disaster recovery and/or management services while supporting technical professionals. You’ll be a key member of the team in assisting project managers or PDMG’s in major segments of moderate to complex projects or tasks, and independently conducting projects involving the evaluation of disaster-affected locations. Bring your technical expertise and passion for FEMA disaster recovery work, and we’ll empower you to restore and improve communities across these Midwest states.

For our FEMA client, qualified candidates must be U.S. citizens, able to clear Department of Homeland Security background check for security clearance level of “Public Trust”, and open to working 8-12 hours per day for 5-6 days per week. You’ll deploy Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, or Nebraska in remote disaster conditions, and most of the job responsibilities will be conducted in a FEMA office. Due to the awarding of this Task Order, you must be ready to mobilize within 24-48 hours of official notice, commit to deploying for up to 6 months or longer, and be flexible for contingent type of project work.

Typical hourly rate range for this position is $46/hr – $110/hr and is commensurate with experience relative to the position.

As a Senior Transportation Project Manager, you will have an important role pursuing new work and building client relationships. Working with a multidisciplinary team, you’ll solve problems and challenges in a team environment where everyone is valued. This position will give you the chance to work on exciting transportation projects that will require your expertise, experience, and leadership as you proactively identify and solve complex problems; take a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions; and guide others in solving complex issues. As a self-motivated professional, you’ll have the opportunity to lead design teams to deliver projects on time and within budget while supporting business development strategies to grow our transportation portfolio and presence in Utah.

Our Senior Transportation Project Manager will:

• Lead and manage teams 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.

• Be accountable for successfully completing projects to the satisfaction of clients and key stakeholders, while simultaneously ensuring that Jacobs’ business and policy expectations are met in the areas of health and safety, quality, financial, project delivery, and risk management.

• Play a leadership role in business development activities that result in the award of new contracts. This typically includes client relationship development, project-specific positioning activities, teaming arrangements, proposal preparation, oral presentations, and contract negotiations consistent with established business development processes.

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

• 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

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

· Maintain portfolio with high volume of projects with short turn-around time

· Managing utility construction projects across client service territory in California

· 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

Manages aspects of the Transmission Line Wildfire Mitigation Program (WMP) clearing dependencies for work execution. This includes working with various partners to ensure the environmental release-to-construction (ERTC), all required permits (i.e. Caltrans), Landing Zones, Laydown Yards, and job drawings are received. Works closely with a Project Controls Analyst, Work and Resource Planner, Construction Management, M&C Supervisors, and Construction Contractors to coordinate readiness for work over assigned Headquarters.

This position requires the ability to manage multiple tasks concurrently. Good written and verbal communication skills are required to facilitate meetings and forge partnerships with multiple stakeholders.

Job Responsibilities

• Conducts business in a safe and ethical manner in accordance with company standard practices
• Works with key stakeholders to develop an annual workplan
• Communicates execution risk, workplan changes, and issues to management and partners
• Escalates items as needed to ensure resources are utilized wisely
• Works with little guidance to complete assignments and solves problems of moderate scope and complexity
• Works with little guidance on moderately complex issues
• Works with support teams to obtain Caltrans, Railroad, City, and County encroachment permits
• Works with support teams to ensure all temporary construction easements for access, landing zones, and laydown yards are obtained
• Works with environmental teams to obtain the ERTC
• Works with engineering and estimating teams to ensure job drawings are complete
• Tracks portfolio of work and any remaining dependencies
• Communicates with peers, exchanging ideas and experiences