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Do you enjoy helping others exceed their career goals while bringing their whole self to the work place? At Jacobs, we’re seeking an inspirational leader who will challenge today and reinvent tomorrow.

Join our team and you'll be responsible for growing our Electric Traction team, winning work and delivering high-profile transit projects across the US. We'll ask you to administer contracts, make sure that the team meets client requirements, align with regulatory agency criteria, and company commitments. You'll provide oversight guidance and direction for the electric traction project team. We’ll have you lead important business development activity by presenting the organization’s project capabilities, establishing client relationships, and procuring work.

We’ll ask you to be responsible directly or through staff for the quality of services performed, client satisfaction, utilization of staff, marketing, reputation of the company in the market

place, contract management, billing and collection, and project delivery. You’ll help ensure the coordination of work share with other offices in Jacobs to deliver projects.

We’ll provide you professional development by asking you to:

• Manage transit and railroad electric traction engineering and project development activities.

• Manage projects of all significance, including developing solutions for difficult problems/tasks of unusual complexity and scope that require a high degree of innovation and ingenuity.

• Supervise related support staff.

• Recruit staff to grow the team.

• Perform all levels of client contact, both internal and external.

• Ensure overall responsibility for commercial or public sector projects, including technical, contractual, budget and schedule activities on medium to large projects and the development of client interfaces to promote continuing relations.

• Plan, direct and coordinate activities of projects to ensure the goals or objectives of these projects are accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters.

• Establish and maintain relationships with clients.

• Establish and maintain relationships with other engineering and architectural firms to partner on potential projects.

• Provide operational supervision and technical guidance to Project Manager(s) and other project or marketing personnel as required.

• Maintain contact with senior client management, office management and managers of applicable departments within Jacobs engaged transit projects.

• Regularly monitor the progress of projects or tasks through project management reviews.

• Work with marketing in preparation of contract proposals.

• Direct and supervise the activities of assigned personnel and provides for and enforces proper delegation of management authority, responsibility and accountability.

• Establishes work plan and multi-disciplinary staffing for each phase of project and arranges for recruitment or assignment of project personnel.

• Maintains positive relationships with current and past clients as assigned. Informs Operations Manager or Sales Manager of potential opportunities to market Jacobs’s services.

• Serves as a representative of Jacobs at meetings, presentations, and public hearings/reviews relative to assigned projects.

• Develops reviews and obtains confirmation of financial and project delivery schedule activities of design and construction as they relate to all disciplines involved.

• Participate in industry societies, such as AREMA, APTA, IEEE. Jacobs encourages membership, active participation in committees and achieving leadership roles.

• Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering

• Professional Engineer (PE) License

• Substantial years of experience as a Project Manager or Group Leader with a focus on rail traction electrification projects

• Technical knowledge of Traction Power Substations, 3rd Rail systems and Overhead Contact Systems

• Experience with AC and DC electrified rail/transit systems. Light Rail experience is a plus.

• Experience with transit and commuter railroad clients in the Northeast and with Amtrak. Experience with Light Rail clients is a plus.

• Must have developed the following skills; engineering knowledge, leadership, oral and written communication skills, planning, teamwork, decision making, judgment and problem solving.

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