We’ll ask you to be responsible directly or through staff for the quality of services performed, client satisfaction, utilization of staff, marketing, reputation of the company in the marketplace, contract management, billing and collection, and project delivery. You’ll help ensure the coordination of work share with other offices in Jacobs to deliver projects.
We’ll provide you professional development by asking you to:
• Manage railroad engineering and project development activities.
• Manage projects of all significance, including developing solutions for difficult problems/tasks of unusual complexity and scope that require a high degree of innovation and ingenuity.
• Supervise related support staff.
• Recruit staff to grow the team.
• Perform all levels of client contact, both internal and external.
• Ensure overall responsibility for commercial or public sector projects, including technical, contractual, budget and schedule activities on medium to large projects and the development of client interfaces to promote continuing relations.
• Plan, Assist and direct and coordinate activities of projects to ensure the goals or objectives of these projects are accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters.
• Establish and maintain relationships with clients.
• Establish and maintain relationships with other engineering and architectural firms to partner on potential projects.
• Provide operational supervision and technical guidance to Project Manager(s) and other project or marketing personnel as required.
• Maintain contact with senior client management, office management and managers of applicable departments within Jacobs engaged transit projects.
• Regularly monitor the progress of projects or tasks through project management reviews.
• Work with marketing in preparation of contract proposals.
• Direct and supervise the activities of assigned personnel and provides for and enforces proper delegation of management authority, responsibility and accountability.
• Establishes work plan and multi-disciplinary staffing for each phase of project and arranges for recruitment or assignment of project personnel.
• Maintains positive relationships with current and past clients as assigned. Informs Operations Manager or Sales Manager of potential opportunities to market Jacobs’s services.
• Serves as a representative of Jacobs at meetings, presentations, and public hearings/reviews relative to assigned projects.
• Develops reviews and obtains confirmation of financial and project delivery schedule activities of design and construction as they relate to all disciplines involved.
• Participate in industry societies, such as AREMA, APTA, IEEE. Jacobs encourages membership, active participation in committees and achieving leadership roles.
