At Jacobs, we challenge what is currently accepted, so we can shape innovative and lasting solutions for tomorrow. If you’ re interested in a long and rewarding career working with the industry’ s best and most innovative construction and engineering professionals, then Jacobs is where you belong. We’re looking for a skilled Project Engineer to manage and supervise subcontract and material resources in relation to construction / installation for a complex water / wastewater facility project. Based in Florida, you’ll work with the Resident Engineers and Superintendents to ensure technical documentation is up to date, including submittals, RFIs, design changes, and record documents. As part of the design-build team, you’ll work with the best professionals in the business managing the project subcontractors and reporting to the Design-Build Manager. Your role will be to coordinate subcontractors throughout construction, commissioning, closeout, and turnover to the owner. Following the project scope, schedules and budgets, you will ensure the project remains on task. Client presentations, weekly construction meetings, and applying critical thinking skills to resolve problems out in the field on the project are tasks associated with this role.
Here’s Also What You’ll Do:
- Ensure quality levels are met at trades level
- Monitor and supervise health and safety including active participation in tool box talks
- Manage the receipt, storage and handling of process equipment.
- Understand the scope of work, contractual requirements, and participate in negotiating changes in scope and administration of the contract and subcontracts
- Participate in risk management and mitigation throughout the life of the project
- Manage and track project submittals, requests for changes, design changes, and nonconformance notices
- Provide input to the overall project schedule including 3-week lookahead schedules
- Develop skills to become an overall Project or Construction Manager
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Engineering, Construction Management, or other applicable field.
- Experience in the delivery of municipal water, wastewater, water resources and / or conveyance type work.
- Working knowledge of construction, building systems/components and technology, contract management, project delivery methods, team building and client relationship building.
Ideally, You’ll Also Have:
- Experience in Alternative Project Delivery, including design build, progressive design build, and construction-manager-at-risk
- The physical and environmental demands required to perform the essential duties of this position include standing, walking, sitting, coordination, balance and agility demands, which may include the ability to climb, stoop, kneel, squat, grasp, reach, perform repetitive hand movements.
- Additional demands may involve a specific level of dexterity, grip strength, climbing and cardiorespiratory demands.
- The work areas may be indoor, outdoor, have loud noise, active machinery that includes high pressure fluid systems, electrical equipment, some defined confined spaces, heights and depths, fumes, air borne particles, noxious gases, and chemicals as you would come to expect in the water and wastewater design build industry.
