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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 Water Conveyance Project Manager to lead delivery of water and wastewater conveyance and storage projects for our municipal, private, state, Tribal, irrigation district, and Federal clients associated with our Spokane, WA or Yakima, WA office. As a Water Conveyance Project Manager, you’ll be charged with leading a team of highly qualified and motivated engineers through the design process, interacting directly with clients to develop and deliver technical conveyance solutions, and mentoring high-performing mid-level engineers. We’ll ask you to grow your career by acting as a seller-doer who will be empowered to develop and manage projects .

Working with other members of our local and regional team, you’ll serve as a Design Manager, Assistant Project Manager, and Project Manager leading a technical team, performing technical tasks, and coordinating the use of resources to accomplish multiple, concurrent water infrastructure projects. Your responsibilities may include planning and design related management as well as technical support roles for various types of conveyance systems, such as open channel flow and low-pressure conduit, flow control structures, and pump stations and force mains. Additional assignments will likely include other water-related civil infrastructure evaluations. You’ll lead and manage project teams throughout all phases of project planning, execution, and closeout; consistent with established project delivery processes to meet the scope, schedule, budget, and other specified requirements stated in each contract. You’ll also play an integral role in leading and mentoring staff, forming long-term relationships with clients and pursuing new work, including strategy development, positioning, proposing, and negotiating contracts.

At Jacobs, you will also 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. We’ll rely on you to lead business development activities with key clients resulting in winning new projects as well as perform the role of Project Manager supporting various projects and programs within a defined client portfolio. 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.

• Bachelor's Degree in Civil, Agricultural, Mechanical, Environmental, and/or related engineering discipline.

• Registration as a Professional Engineer (PE) is required. If not registered in Washington, you must be able to obtain within one year of hire.

• Minimum of 8 years of professional experience in related roles.

• Design Management, Assistant Project Management, and/or Project Management experience providing leadership and oversight of project delivery.

• Ability to lead the design and preparation of plans, specifications, estimates, studies, proposals and/or reports.

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• A Master's degree in discipline listed above.

• 8 to 12 years of experience working in engineering roles.

• Experience managing multi-disciplinary teams on medium to large water resources projects.

• Experience serving various clients involving a wide variety of fields including conveyance pipeline design, project management, water/wastewater pump station design.

• Strong network among clients in the region.

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