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Jacobs Senior Project Manager - Highway/Roadway in Virginia Beach, Virginia
Thriving communities. Healthy cities. A brighter future. What we do is more than building roads, we work every day to make the world better for everyone. At Jacobs, we challenge what is currently accepted, so we can shape innovative and lasting solutions for tomorrow. If you want to work for a company invested in you, your success and the global community - Jacobs is the place for you.
We are looking for a driven and passionate Senior Project Manager to support our transportation projects that focus on challenging highway, roadway, and interchange projects and pursuits. Your immediate assignments as Senior Project Manager will be to oversee and manage transportation projects throughout Virginia and be responsible for managing project teams to perform preliminary and final design engineering and prepare construction plan documents to satisfy requirements for local and state roadway projects.
Your leadership ability will give you the opportunity to lead tasks and/or projects and interface directly with our clients. This is an excellent opportunity to advance your career working with our established clients while supported by local and national resources, including Jacobs extensive network of technical experts.
As a key member of the team, we’ll look to you to:
• Manage the scope, schedule and budget of your projects
• Take ultimate responsibility for quality on the project, ensuring a quality assurance plan and quality control process is appropriate and in place
• Communicate with the client to ensure the highest level of satisfaction.
• Collaborate with local Client Account Managers and Client Service Line leaders to identify and pursue work for you and our staff and may be requested to attend conferences and external events to promote Jacobs in the marketplace
Your most impactful mission in this role is to embrace living inclusion every day and enabling diversity and equality globally. For us, this means creating a culture of belonging where we all thrive by embracing all perspectives. An inclusive culture with many perspectives through diverse backgrounds allows us to leverage knowledge, leadership and connection to bring forth opportunity, creativity and growth.
Join us and we will assist you in continuing the development of your skills and exploring all that you can do across our global company, with opportunities to share your knowledge along the way.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering
• Professional Engineer (PE ) required or the ability to obtain within 6 months of employment; Virginia PE preferred
• Experience with multi-discipline infrastructure engineering design and construction projects
• Substantial experience in managing transportation projects with VDOT and Virginia’s local municipalities
• Established local and DOT client relationships
• Substantial project management experience on roadway design projects including design and plan development of new and rehabilitation highway projects
• Understanding of and practical experience applying the AASHTO design guidelines to transportation projects
• Demonstrated communication and writing skills including technical report writing
Jacobs is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, medical condition, marital or domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression and transgender status, mental disability or physical disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, citizenship, low-income status or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law. Learn more about your rights under Federal EEO laws and supplemental language.