Water Engineer jobs in United States, Florida, Fort Lauderdale

The employee will work alongside our local team and support senior-level engineers and project managers in performing the following tasks:

• Assist senior engineers on larger, complex projects, including task management.
• Perform a wide variety of routine assignments that are clearly defined and require the application of standard design engineering techniques, procedures, and criteria.
• Independently evaluate the selection and/or modification of standard techniques, procedures, criteria, and systems to efficiently meet project goals.
• Prepare planning documents, reports, studies, and calculations.
• Prepare models, engineering specifications, data sheets, sketches, and drawings and perform calculations in support of engineering activities.
• Maintain a positive attitude, are dependable, and meet assigned project deadlines.
• Effectively work with project teams with diverse technical skill sets and geographic locations
• Display strong communication and interpersonal skills and work in a fast-paced consulting environment.
• Collaborate on and contribute to maintaining and building strong client relationships.

Here’s what you will be doing

• Lead with innovation and expertise, guiding multidisciplinary teams through the intricacies of project lifecycle management, ensuring every initiative meets its designated targets for scope, schedule, budget, and beyond.
• Champion excellence and client satisfaction, delivering projects that not only meet but exceed expectations, all while adhering to Jacobs' stringent standards for health, safety, quality, and risk management.
• Ignite growth and opportunity, leveraging your strategic insight to secure new contracts through compelling proposals, engaging presentations, and effective negotiations, all founded on deep market understanding and client needs.
• Contribute to the development of a Florida Market Action Plan that delivers leading-edge technology solutions for our clients while also actively diversifying and expanding our client base.
• Demonstrate leadership by example with integrity and candor and by “living inclusion” in support of a work environment that celebrates inclusion and diversity (a culture we call TogetherBeyond℠).
• Lead the development, maintenance, and advancement of your client's relationship. This will include developing the strategy of the account, help determine which opportunities to pursue, own the Go/No-Go process, and influence the win strategy.

Specific tasks will include

• Lead a multiple-disciplinary team in delivering projects that exceed client expectations while managing the budget and meeting gross margin goals.
• Driving growth with your client, working closely with the project team for overall client satisfaction from client relationship through final project delivery.
• Leading key pursuit activities during opening, middle, and end game, working closely with sales operations.
• Building relationships with your client through face-to-face meetings and participating in professional events.
• Leading internal coordination through working directly with the sales team on overall client strategy, with Operations for project delivery, and coordination on pursuits with sales operations (cost, risk), and with legal regarding contracting.
• Obtaining and distilling feedback and other indicators that may influence middle game actions.

Each day, you will be an important team member as you participate in the design, coordination, and execution of projects for our clients. Our senior engineers are committed to strong mentorship and providing opportunities to work independently and with peers. You should be a self-motivated professional with a desire to grow personally and professionally with each project while delivering transformative projects for our clients, in our diverse and fast-paced office.

• Assist junior, mid-level and senior-level engineers with the preparation of planning and design documents, reports, studies, and calculations.
• Serve as a field inspector/engineer for the construction management and oversite of projects.
• Prepare traffic and drainage models, engineering specifications, data sheets, sketches, drawings and perform calculations in support of engineering activities.
• Possess an outgoing and positive attitude, are dependable and meet all assigned project deadlines.

In this role you will provide drainage design for roadway and highway projects throughout Florida. Work at this level requires the ability to work in a team, collaborate, and keep pace with a fast-paced environment. Typical work assignments may include storm drainage analysis and design, cross drainage design, erosion and sediment control, temporary drainage, quantity and cost estimates, preparation of technical reports and memorandums, and preparation of construction plans, estimates, and specifications as required.

When you join us, you’ll work in a team environment with other project engineers on the detailed drainage design of urban and rural transportation projects. You’ll conduct storm drainage analysis and design per the requirements of the project and various transportation public agencies such as FDOT.

Here’s what you will be doing

• Lead with innovation and expertise, guiding multidisciplinary teams through the intricacies of project lifecycle management, ensuring every initiative meets its designated targets for scope, schedule, budget, and beyond.
• Champion excellence and client satisfaction, delivering projects that not only meet but exceed expectations, all while adhering to Jacobs' stringent standards for health, safety, quality, and risk management.
• Ignite growth and opportunity, leveraging your strategic insight to secure new contracts through compelling proposals, engaging presentations, and effective negotiations, all founded on deep market understanding and client needs.
• Contribute to the development of a Florida Market Action Plan that delivers leading-edge technology solutions for our clients while also actively diversifying and expanding our client base.
• Demonstrate leadership by example with integrity and candor and by “living inclusion” in support of a work environment that celebrates inclusion and diversity (a culture we call TogetherBeyond℠).
• Lead the development, maintenance, and advancement of your client's relationship. This will include developing the strategy of the account, help determine which opportunities to pursue, own the Go/No-Go process, and influence the win strategy.

Specific tasks will include

• Lead a multiple-disciplinary team in delivering projects that exceed client expectations while managing the budget and meeting gross margin goals.
• Driving growth with your client, working closely with the project team for overall client satisfaction from client relationship through final project delivery.
• Leading key pursuit activities during opening, middle, and end game, working closely with sales operations.
• Building relationships with your client through face-to-face meetings and participating in professional events.
• Leading internal coordination through working directly with the sales team on overall client strategy, with Operations for project delivery, and coordination on pursuits with sales operations (cost, risk), and with legal regarding contracting.
• Obtaining and distilling feedback and other indicators that may influence middle game actions.

The employee will work alongside our local team and support senior-level engineers and project managers in performing the following tasks:

• Assist senior engineers on larger, complex projects, including task management.
• Perform a wide variety of routine assignments that are clearly defined and require the application of standard design engineering techniques, procedures, and criteria.
• Independently evaluate the selection and/or modification of standard techniques, procedures, criteria, and systems to efficiently meet project goals.
• Prepare planning documents, reports, studies, and calculations.
• Prepare models, engineering specifications, data sheets, sketches, and drawings and perform calculations in support of engineering activities.
• Maintain a positive attitude, are dependable, and meet assigned project deadlines.
• Effectively work with project teams with diverse technical skill sets and geographic locations
• Display strong communication and interpersonal skills and work in a fast-paced consulting environment.
• Collaborate on and contribute to maintaining and building strong client relationships.

You will collaborate with our local and global technology leaders to produce innovative solutions for a variety of municipal and industrial clients that are sustainable and resilient while utilizing world-class Jacobs digital tools. You will help drive the evaluation and ultimate incorporation of emerging technologies into our work while implementing Jacobs best practices developed over the past 40 years serving the drinking water industry. You will have the opportunity to work on award-winning projects within Florida, and ultimately globally, that use conventional and advanced treatment processes to treat conventional and alternative water supplies, as well as effectively remove emerging contaminants.  You will present your work to industry peers in industry magazines and at professional conferences.