If you’re interested in a rewarding career working with a global leader and with the industry’s best and most innovative professionals, then Jacobs is where you belong. Our teams commonly engage at the forefront of large, complex projects to help navigate the competing challenges of reliable water supply and protection of natural resources. We’re seeking a Senior Pump Station Engineer to lead planning, preliminary, and detailed design of well, river, reservoir, and canal intake pumping stations. In this role, you’ll work with other members of our local and regional team to perform specialized engineering assignments for large capacity water conveyance and storage infrastructure for municipal, private, state, Tribal, irrigation district, and Federal clients. This work includes design of pump station system head curves, intakes, and pump and piping layout as well as the development of design drawing, specifications, and technical reports. You will also evaluate existing pump station operation and condition to provide recommendation on rehabilitation and replacement of pumps and ancillary systems, assist with preparing condition assessment reports. For this work, you will coordinate with other project disciplines, direct the work of CAD designers, and conduct occasional field activities such as site assessment, data collection, analysis, documentation, and construction support.
Depending on project size and complexity, you’ll serve as a Task Lead, Design Manager, or Assistant Project Manager performing technical tasks, quality control, and coordinating the use of resources to support multiple, concurrent water infrastructure projects throughout all phases of project planning, execution, and closeout. You’ll also contribute to client development, proposal preparation, and sales pursuits.
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Biological and Agricultural, Civil, or related engineering discipline.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license or ability to obtain within 6 months.
- Minimum of 15 years of relevant experience with pump station design and assessment.
- Technical background in pump station hydraulics engineering, pump intake design, pumping equipment, pump station piping and valve design, and pump operation.
- Proficiency in hydraulic modeling software (e.g. AFT Fathom, PSIM, Bentley OpenFlows Water).
- Familiarity with pump station CFD and physical modeling (performed by others).
- Experience developing design drawings, technical specifications, and reports.
- Experience with Hydraulic Institute standards.
- Task Lead, Design Management, and/or Assistant Project Manager experience on pumping systems.
- Experience designing pump stations for well, river, reservoir, and canal intakes.
- Experience with hydraulic turbine pumps and other similar mechanical equipment.
- Experience in analysis of pumping economics and planning for current and future design conditions.
- Experience in pump station condition assessment, design, and rehabilitation.
- Experience in pump station services during construction and construction oversight.
- Dependable and capable of setting and meeting project deadlines.
Ideally, you’ll also have:
- A Master's degree in a discipline listed above.
- Seventeen to twenty-five years of experience working in engineering roles.
- Experience in MicroStation and/or Autodesk design suites.
- Experience in working with irrigation districts and irrigation facilities as well as with the US Army Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation.
- Experience training and mentoring less experienced project engineers and designers.
- Experience working within multi-disciplinary teams of both in-house team members and external partners to accomplish complex engineering, planning, and design assignments is required.
