Program Manager - Energy and Power
Listed on 2026-02-08
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Management
Program / Project Manager, Operations Manager -
Engineering
Operations Manager
Overview
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.
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 rely 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, you’ll 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.
Responsibilities- 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.
- Coordinate with regulatory agencies and serve as a liaison between clients and other agencies when necessary.
- 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…
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