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If you’re interested in a rewarding career working with a global leader and the industry’s best and most innovative professionals, Jacobs is where you belong. Our teams engage at the forefront of large, complex projects to help navigate the competing challenges involved with reliable water supply, management, conveyance, and natural resources protection.

We’re seeking a Pump Station Engineer to align to any of our Northwest geography locations to assist with planning, evaluation, engineering, design, and construction support services for a variety of related projects. In this role, you’ll work with other members of our local, regional, and national teams to perform specialized engineering assignments for pump station projects of varied sizes, configurations, and capacities, and for a variety of potential clients. Pump station engagements may involve potable water, wastewater, irrigation, and stormwater applications, supporting water transmission, distribution, collection, treatment facilities, flood control, industrial facilities, or other purposes. This work includes evaluation and design of pump station system head curves, equipment sizing, wet well sizing and hydraulics, intakes, discharges, and pump and piping layouts as well as the development of design drawings, specifications, and technical reports. You will also evaluate existing pump station performance, operation, and condition to provide recommendations on rehabilitation and replacement of pumps and ancillary systems. For this work, you will coordinate with other project disciplines, direct the work of CADD designers and early-career engineering staff, and conduct occasional field activities such as site assessment, data collection, analysis, documentation, and construction support.

Depending on project size and complexity, you’ll have the opportunity to serve as a technical subject matter expert, task lead, design manager, and/or in project management roles performing technical tasks, quality control, and coordinating the use of resources to support multiple, concurrent projects through all phases of planning, execution, and closeout. You’ll also contribute to client engagement and development, and professional services marketing, sales, and business development pursuits.

At Jacobs, you will have the opportunity to grow professionally through your participation with high-functioning project teams, collaborating via our positive and empowering culture to deliver challenging projects and innovation in concert with our industry leading subject matter experts and market solutions teams. Through your engagement you will also build client relationships and foster future client opportunities in collaboration with our sales teams. Join us and we will support your professional growth and progressive career advancement, helping you explore all that you can do across our global company, with opportunities to share your knowledge and build experience and leadership along the way.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Civil, or Environmental Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.

• Professional Engineer (PE) license or ability to obtain within 6 months of start date.

• Minimum of five to ten years of progressive engineering experience specializing in the planning, evaluation, and design of pump station and conveyance infrastructure for water utility pumping systems (potable, stormwater, wastewater, etc.).

• Core technical experience with pump station hydraulics, pump intakes and wet wells, various types of hydraulic machines and pumping equipment, pumping system operations, pump station and force main piping, valves, fittings, and appurtenances, and flow and pressure management, measurement, and control, including assessment of flow capacities and velocities, lift, friction, headloss, total dynamic head, efficiency, power requirements, suction and intake conditions, solids handling, variable speed operations and related controls, pump and system curves analysis and equipment selection, as well as with pressure, thrust loads, and hydraulic transient management.

• Experience with a variety of pump types and other similar mechanical equipment including pump drivers (motors, variable frequency drives, engines, etc.).

• Familiarity with Hydraulic Institute and other related technical and industry standards.

• Familiarity with other related engineering and technical disciplines such as site civil, mechanical, architectural, structural, electrical, instrumentation and controls, geotechnical, environmental, plumbing, HVAC, landscaping, permitting, construction, and operations.

• Demonstrated experience working and collaborating effectively within multi-disciplinary teams, both internally and with and external and client partners, to accomplish complex engineering, planning, and design assignments.

• Experience developing design drawings, technical specifications, and reports.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate, collaborate, and self-manage your focus and engagements to deliver effectively on project and production delivery commitments and requirements with minimal oversight.

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Master's degree in a discipline listed above.

• Up to fifteen or more years of experience working in pump station and related engineering roles.

• Pump station evaluation and design experience for river, lake, reservoir, and/or canal intakes, or for groundwater well installations.

• Familiarity with pump station CFD and physical modeling (performed by others).

• Experience with hydraulic modeling analysis and software, transient analysis and modeling, and/or CADD design tools.

• Experience in pump station condition assessment and rehabilitation and/or with pump station related services during construction, construction oversight, and in testing, commissioning, and startup.

• Experience in the analysis of pumping infrastructure lifecycle, renewal, rehabilitation, and replacement economics, and planning for current and future design conditions.

• Pipelines and/or hydropower related experience.

• Task lead and/or design management experience for pumping systems.

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