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Jacobs Principal Climate Community Resilience Engineer 
United States, California, Oakland 
104678503

14.12.2024
Your impact

In this role, you will provide technical leadership and guidance, as well as performing technical tasks and coordinating the use of resources to accomplish multiple, concurrent resilience-focused projects. You will establish and maintain relationships with clients, regulators, and subconsultants, as well as provide direction and mentorship to team members. The successful candidate will have a reputation in the industry as a technical expert, and a demonstrated ability to defend the technical rigor of the work completed.

Here's what you'll need
  • Bachelors of Science in Engineering
  • Progressive experience in resilience planning. Strong emphasis on coastal resilience planning at the urban interface, climate risk assessment, innovative engineering solutions, and multi-disciplinary communication.
  • Experience with urban, riverine, and coastal hydraulic modeling.
  • Relevant experience in the application of geospatial analysis and utilization of various data science tools to support decision making for resilience.
  • Relevant experience across Municipal, State, and/or Federal organizations. Desirable to have experience working with the US Army Corps of Engineers in planning flood risk reduction infrastructure.
  • Experience as liaison with federal partners, grantors, or regulators and providing strategic advice to clients and internal teams.
  • Business development experience and interest.
  • Excellent oral and written communications, self-motivation, team-oriented work practices, organizational skills, and multitasking ability.

Ideally, you'll also have:

  • Graduate degree in planning, engineering, public policy, or other related discipline.