What are the responsibilities and job description for the Design Project Director - Semiconductor position at Jacobs?
At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.
Your impact
Across our company, across our offices, across the world, we’re continually challenging today to reinvent tomorrow. At Jacobs, we make the world smarter, more connected, more sustainable, and more secure. Together, we’re pushing the limits of what’s possible. We stay ahead to create the new standards our future needs.
Challenging today is our response to the increasing complexity our world is experiencing. It calls on us to join forces, putting our knowledge and imagination together to reinvent the way we solve problems and shape the next generation of innovative solutions.
Reinventing tomorrow is our promise and an invitation to raise the bar in everything we do. From the brilliant solutions we create with our clients, to the open and inclusive culture we create for our people. From the positive difference we make in our communities, to the added value we deliver to our shareholders.
Together, we’re pushing the limits of what’s possible. We stay ahead to create the new standards our future needs with our key accelerators Climate Response, Data Solutions & Consulting/Advisory
As part of the Jacobs Electronics team, your role as a Design Project Director will be to manage complex fast track high tech projects. In this role, you will be the liaison with senior client project management to support business relations and work closely with the team to support successful project delivery. Responsible for the formation and implementation of the complex fast track projects, contract management, WBS and the Performance Baseline, the project managers on the project, and Subcontract management. The Design Project Director is responsible for reporting contract cost and schedule performance to the Customer and the senior operations management.
You will apply your project design management knowledge and experience in the technical delivery of Semiconductor projects to support the commercial and technical interface between project teams and the client and their stakeholders. Your direction, guidance, and support will help our teams to achieve excellence, and you’ll therefore play an important role in supporting our client's overall project goals.
You’ll be a key contributor to project delivery and at the same time, you’ll utilize your project design management technical expertise and passion to mentor other professionals, nurturing their purpose and guiding them.
You will be responsible for ensuring that there is a clear understanding of the project remit, contract, safety, and risk definition, the scope is well-defined, and project managers have budgeted for each activity to be carried out by each discipline. You will ensure that the project management has had the appropriate dialogue between the disciplines during the project life, and, where necessary, between the different offices involved in the project.
Working together, we’ll help you grow and pursue what fulfills you so that we can make impacts on the future – big and small, global, and local. We’ll provide you the means and tools to work on a wide variety of interesting and challenging projects to grow your career and help create a more sustainable future.
Here’s What You Will Be Doing
Here's what you'll need
Your impact
Across our company, across our offices, across the world, we’re continually challenging today to reinvent tomorrow. At Jacobs, we make the world smarter, more connected, more sustainable, and more secure. Together, we’re pushing the limits of what’s possible. We stay ahead to create the new standards our future needs.
Challenging today is our response to the increasing complexity our world is experiencing. It calls on us to join forces, putting our knowledge and imagination together to reinvent the way we solve problems and shape the next generation of innovative solutions.
Reinventing tomorrow is our promise and an invitation to raise the bar in everything we do. From the brilliant solutions we create with our clients, to the open and inclusive culture we create for our people. From the positive difference we make in our communities, to the added value we deliver to our shareholders.
Together, we’re pushing the limits of what’s possible. We stay ahead to create the new standards our future needs with our key accelerators Climate Response, Data Solutions & Consulting/Advisory
As part of the Jacobs Electronics team, your role as a Design Project Director will be to manage complex fast track high tech projects. In this role, you will be the liaison with senior client project management to support business relations and work closely with the team to support successful project delivery. Responsible for the formation and implementation of the complex fast track projects, contract management, WBS and the Performance Baseline, the project managers on the project, and Subcontract management. The Design Project Director is responsible for reporting contract cost and schedule performance to the Customer and the senior operations management.
You will apply your project design management knowledge and experience in the technical delivery of Semiconductor projects to support the commercial and technical interface between project teams and the client and their stakeholders. Your direction, guidance, and support will help our teams to achieve excellence, and you’ll therefore play an important role in supporting our client's overall project goals.
You’ll be a key contributor to project delivery and at the same time, you’ll utilize your project design management technical expertise and passion to mentor other professionals, nurturing their purpose and guiding them.
You will be responsible for ensuring that there is a clear understanding of the project remit, contract, safety, and risk definition, the scope is well-defined, and project managers have budgeted for each activity to be carried out by each discipline. You will ensure that the project management has had the appropriate dialogue between the disciplines during the project life, and, where necessary, between the different offices involved in the project.
Working together, we’ll help you grow and pursue what fulfills you so that we can make impacts on the future – big and small, global, and local. We’ll provide you the means and tools to work on a wide variety of interesting and challenging projects to grow your career and help create a more sustainable future.
Here’s What You Will Be Doing
- Managing the business-customer relationship.
- Planning and overseeing the implementation of the program, ensuring staying within budget constraints and meeting requirements.
- Managing the financial and schedule requirements.
- Staffing and managing necessary resources to ensure program requirements are met.
- Ensuring subcontractors’ performance meets all contractual requirements and quality standards.
- Maintaining close liaison with the customer to prioritize key tasking and ensure timely resolution of any programmatic issues.
- Developing/coordinating estimates, proposals, BOEs, and other projects/task-related contractual actions with the appropriate stakeholders.
- Providing oral and written reports of program/project/task status and ensures contract deliverables are delivered to the appropriate stakeholders’ contractual requirements.
- Regularly briefing senior management and other key stakeholders on program/project/task status measurement data.
- Endorsing and implementing company policies and procedures
- Completing employee performance appraisals and employee counseling’s, if assigned the responsibilities of employee supervision
Here's what you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management or 4 additional years of work experience in lieu of a degree
- 10-20 years of experience in managing projects related to industrial and/or commercial facilities
- Experience as a Project Manager on Advanced Technology or Semiconductor Projects.
- Engineer in Training (EIT) or Professional Engineer (PE)
- Project Management Professional Certification (PMP)
- Master's degree in Engineering, Project Management, or related field
