Senior Bridge Engineer jobs at Jacobs in United States, Sacramento

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

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
  

Key responsibilities of this position include:

• Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams of engineers, scientists, planners, and other professionals to develop project approvals and designs.
• Supporting proposal preparation, client relationships, and business development activities.
• Preparing scopes of work and estimating level of effort for task completion.
• Acting as a project manager and lead engineer on projects.
• Maintaining excellent communication with clients, regulatory agencies, local government officials, employees, and subcontractors.
• Providing management support and fostering the career growth of junior-level environmental staff.

Our Bridge Engineers:

• Serve in a lead technical support role on a variety of bridge project sizes
• Lead successful delivery of high-quality projects within budget and on schedule
• Effectively collaborate with others and lead transportation and bridge teams in all aspects of bridge analysis and design, from conceptual planning and preliminary design to final design and construction
• Identify creative and innovative engineering solutions based on client, project, and site constraints
• Provide technical guidance and oversight, and perform quality reviews of work by others
• Commit to quality and continuous improvement as individuals as well as part of a team
• Complete assigned tasks with a high-level of quality within schedule and budget constraints while collaborating with teams of professionals from multiple disciplines
• Lead and support project execution, quality management, and safety plans
• Develop plans, specifications, cost estimates, and final bid packages for bridges and other transportation structures
• Train, mentor, and direct the work of less-experienced engineers
• Identify schedule and cost variances and develop/implement recommendations for corrective action in a timely manner
• Demonstrate leadership by organizing and actively participating in technical development and other networking activities both internally and externally
• Assist in marketing activities to procure new opportunities, coordinating with client account management leads
• Have strong written and oral communication skills and a team-oriented attitude

This position will be based out of any of our Northern CA offices including Sacramento, CA, Redding, CA, San Francisco, CA, Oakland, CA and San Jose, CA, and may include limited travel.