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At Jacobs, we’re not just building structures. We’re helping our clients innovate and grow by designing, engineering, and executing the construction of their advanced manufacturing facilities that are changing our world. 

As a Design Project Manager , you’ll join our collaborative team providing our clients with award-winning planning, engineering, architectural design, construction management, and design-build project delivery. We are looking for a passionate Design Project Management Professional who is driven by collaboration, exceeding expectations, and challenging the status quo. This is a US location flexible (remote or hybrid) role reporting to Jacobs Electronics offices in Portland, OR, Phoenix, AZ or Pittsburgh, PA.

We are looking for people passionate about project design delivery in the following areas:

Servant leader to the project team:

· Create conditions supportive of team well-being.

· Guide and facilitate establishing integrated, coordinated workflow.

· Ensure the team can focus and be productive.

· Keep attention on continually improving how we do what we do.

Guide the team in the development of their plan to complete the project and hold authority over that plan. Lead schedule problem-solving:

· Facilitate holistic, reliable, and achievable plans to deliver complete and coordinated work.

· Communicate the team's plan, constraints, and help needed to stakeholders. Negotiate on behalf of the team.

· Know the status of all work.

Establish a coherent project production system and work coordination routines:

· Develop and institute production systems that serve the team. Ensure their effective use.

· Engage performers, discipline leads, project leadership, and discipline management for enrollment, encouragement, and directives to engage effectively in planning.

· Lead recurring planning sessions and Daily Check-ins.

· Facilitate scope breakdown and work structuring to enable a coordinated flow of small multidiscipline batches of work.

· Guide the team and leadership in the prioritization of work. Respond with agility to evolving project needs.

Integrate stakeholders, including Trade Partners, into the design process:

· Coordinate trade constructability engagement with design.

· If trades are performing design, ensure that their work satisfies next-customer needs and that trade commitments are managed.

Responsible for technical quality assurance and control:

· Ensure that required reviews occur and are documented and that appropriate registered professionals stamp work. Always move the team toward building quality into the work.

· Responsible for package ownership and production, deliverables issuance, and coordinating documentation. Manage preparation, facilitation, and adjudication of customer design reviews. Prepare meeting notes.

· Work with design disciplines and design partners to forecast staffing needs, resolve staffing gaps, and forecast efforts to complete. Lead scope and cost change management. Prepare and negotiate changes.

Your keen ability to multi-task, communicate effectively, and tackle project challenges will allow you to thrive in our fast-paced environment. You’ll provide motivation and direction to project teams and be surrounded by expert mentorship and mentoring opportunities to help you and your team thrive.

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.

Here’s what you’ll need :

· Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, or related discipline

· 7-10 years of experience managing architectural or engineering design projects

· At least two years of design management experience related to industrial semiconductor facilities

Ideally, you’ll also have:

· Master's Degree in Engineering or Architectural

· Engineer in Training (EIT) or Professional Engineer (PE) license

· Experience as a Project Manager for Semiconductor projects

· Project Management Professional Certification (PMP)

· Fluent in English both in speaking and written technical communication

· Working knowledge of Project Management Institute (PMI) principles

· Excellent communication skills both verbal and written

· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

· Forward-thinking, eager to learn best practices, and contribute with innovative ideas

· Displayed ability to learn quickly and driven to broaden the knowledge base

· Ability to collaborate and work effectively in a variety of teams, including multi-disciplinary teams

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At Jacobs, we help prepare people for new opportunities and challenges. With positions at every level, openings in multiple disciplines, expertise in a range of markets and offices around the globe, we create an environment where you can learn, grow, and thrive. From our competitive benefits program to our Health and Safety initiative of Beyond Zero workplace injuries, we believe that you'll find a flourishing career here at Jacobs.

Jacobs health and welfare benefits are designed to invest in you, and in the things you care about. Your health. Your well-being. Your security. Your future. Eligible employees and their dependents may elect medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, and if eligible, a deferred compensation plan, and Executive Deferral Plan. We have an unlimited U.S. Personalized Paid Time Off (PPTO) policy for eligible full-time exempt employees, seven paid holidays, one floating holiday, and caregiver leave. Hired applicants will be able to purchase company stock and have the opportunity to receive a performance discretionary bonus. The base salary for this position is $86,700 - $134,375. This range reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations if remote. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

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. With $15 billion in revenue and a talent force of more than 60,000, Jacobs provides a full spectrum of professional services including consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery for the government and private sector.

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