Program Manager - Energy & Power

At Jacobs, we don’t settle - we’re always looking beyond to raise the bar and deliver with excellence. We apply our expertise and knowledge as we look into the future with great optimism and focus. We work together and give our best to make a difference in our world.

Join us as a Program Manager in Energy and Power, where we are using our solutions across multiple markets to create a more connected and sustainable world, environmentally and socially.

As a vital leader in our Energy & Power Program Management team, you’ll work on challenging programs that depend on your vision, expertise, intuition, and leadership to plan, direct, and monitor all aspects of complex program delivery.

We’ll rely on your leadership and passion for delivering multidisciplinary complex systems and Energy & Power-related programs and on your experience serving as the company’s primary contact with the client, responsible for overall work progress and technical performance on the program. Your experience should include extensive experience in Program Controls (planning, scheduling, cost controls, etc), including serving at some point during your career in a Program Controls Lead role, or comparable role.

Capitalizing on your strategic foresight, we’ll ask you to serve as an innovative thought-leader while utilizing both innovative and well-established program management procedures. As an inspirational leader, you’ll be responsible for oversight and mentoring of the program team through all phases of program planning, procurement, delivery, and closeout consistent with program delivery processes to meet the scope, schedule, budget, and other specified contractual requirements.

Utilizing your business acumen and communication skills, you’ll be asked to develop and maintain meaningful client partnerships, successfully complete the scope of work, and simultaneously ensure that Jacobs’s health, safety, environmental, security, quality, financial, risk management, business, and policy expectations are also met. Additionally, we’ll ask you to play a key role in business development activities leading to the award of the contract. This typically includes client relationship development, program-specific positioning activities, teaming arrangements, proposal preparation, orals presentation, and contract negotiation consistent with established business development processes.

We’ll look to your technical expertise for knowledge and the innovative application of design, construction, and operations to structure approaches to solving programmatic challenges. As needed, you’ll initiate or escalate the correction of any conditions which may adversely affect the completion of the project on schedule and within budget.

At Jacobs, we’re partnering across the globe to create the best project outcomes by maximizing the design, digital technology, and support capabilities of our Global Integrated Delivery (GID) teammates. By joining Jacobs, you’ll commit to supporting and engaging with these teams.

Design your career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can continue to evolve, grow, and succeed.

We’ll Also Ask you to :

Clarify the program’s vision and strategy, and ensure efforts are prioritized to support them

Manage external client and stakeholders, as well as internal staff, to complete work on-time and within budget, including interfacing with teams working on other related programs / projects

Coordinate and / or oversee design, construction, and readiness activities with clients, consultants, and stakeholders

Oversee interdisciplinary teams and provide review and guidance during development of deliverables

When necessary, coordinate with regulatory agencies and serve as a liaison between clients and other agencies

Mentor and lead other staff while creating an environment in which innovation and differences are openly shared, embraced, and incorporated into the team’s activities

Assist with proposal development and participate in interviews and presentations

Participate in the Jacobs growth process and work collaboratively with Sales teams

Take an active role and participate in appropriate industry trade organizations, including presentation of papers, publications, and serving on select committees

Partner with the Global Program Management team on leadership best practices

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Relevant four-year degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business or related field; Graduate degree a plus

Substantial years of experience overseeing large scale programs

Demonstrated experience managing large scale Energy & Power programs with varying degrees of technical, financial, strategic, team and client / external stakeholder complexity

Demonstrated direct experience leading a program controls team, including responsibility for planning, base-line scheduling, and cost controls

Demonstrated understanding of capital programming, technical design and construction oversight, program delivery, commercial management, health and safety, and other key disciplines necessary to deliver a complex program

Experience with a variety of delivery methods, including Delivery Partner, Design-Build, Design-Bid-Build, and Public Private Partnerships / AFP delivery

Ability to articulate complex concepts and demonstrate extensive experience in partnership-building, agency coordination planning, and program experience

Ideally, You'll Also Have :

Registered Professional Engineer, PMP, PgMP and / or equivalent

Experience with program governance and a variety of program management organizational models

Technical expertise in one or more areas of Energy & Power

Experience collaborating with stakeholders and end users

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