What are the responsibilities and job description for the Civil/Conveyance Engineer position at Jacobs?
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Your impact
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 Civil/Conveyance Engineer with experience in municipal and agricultural irrigation water projects to support delivering world-class conveyance and storage projects in Eastern Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. As a Civil/Conveyance Engineer, 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. Work includes design for open channel flow and low-pressure head conduit, flow control structures, pump stations, and force mains as well as water resources and other water-related civil infrastructure evaluations for municipal, private, state, Tribal, irrigation district, and Federal clients.
Depending on project size and complexity, you’ll serve as a Design Manager, Assistant Project Manager, or Project Manager performing technical tasks, leading technical teams, quality control, and coordinating the use of resources to manage 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.
At Jacobs, you will have the opportunity to grow professionally through your participation with high-functioning project teams delivering challenging projects and industry leading Market Solutions group that is focused on developing innovative solutions. Through these projects you will also build client relationships and foster future client opportunities in collaboration with our Sales Team. Join us and we will support professional growth and help you explore all that you can do across our global company, with opportunities to share your knowledge along the way.
Here's what you'll need
Your impact
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 Civil/Conveyance Engineer with experience in municipal and agricultural irrigation water projects to support delivering world-class conveyance and storage projects in Eastern Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. As a Civil/Conveyance Engineer, 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. Work includes design for open channel flow and low-pressure head conduit, flow control structures, pump stations, and force mains as well as water resources and other water-related civil infrastructure evaluations for municipal, private, state, Tribal, irrigation district, and Federal clients.
Depending on project size and complexity, you’ll serve as a Design Manager, Assistant Project Manager, or Project Manager performing technical tasks, leading technical teams, quality control, and coordinating the use of resources to manage 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.
At Jacobs, you will have the opportunity to grow professionally through your participation with high-functioning project teams delivering challenging projects and industry leading Market Solutions group that is focused on developing innovative solutions. Through these projects you will also build client relationships and foster future client opportunities in collaboration with our Sales Team. Join us and we will support professional growth and help you explore all that you can do across our global company, with opportunities to share your knowledge along the way.
Here's what you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Civil, Biological and Agricultural, Environmental, or other related engineering discipline.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license or ability to obtain within 6 months
- Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in engineering and related roles.
- Experience designing and leading small to medium sized water conveyance and storage projects.
- Ability to lead the preparation of plans, specifications, cost estimates, model development and analysis, studies, proposals and/or reports.
- A Master's degree in a discipline listed above
- Technical design experience on fish passage, site development, irrigation diversion, water resources, large diameter pipeline projects and economic analysis.
- 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
- Design Management, Assistant Project Management, and/or Project Management experience providing leadership and oversight of the design and preparation of plans, specifications, estimates, studies, proposals and/or reports.
