Ports and Maritime Project Manager

Jacobs Solutions Inc.•Bellevue, WA

43d•Hybrid

About The Position

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. Your impact We are seeking for a qualified, multidisciplinary, and motivated person for the new Ports & Maritime (P&M) Project Manager role for the US Northwest region. This position brings the opportunity to make a strong contribution towards our bold, market disruptive strategy, project delivery and the Transportation Roadmap for the Northwest. The Project Manager will be part of our Americas Northwest, be a key member of the Global P&M Team and play a key role on regional growth by delivering projects, participating in P&M opportunities, and supporting other markets within the Region. You will closely participate in project delivery, development, and growth of our P&M client base, engage in early and middle game sales processes, lead pursuits in and out of the region, provide technical input into projects, mentor junior and mid-level staff, and support operations with project delivery and performance with the goal of growing our P&M business. As primary role, Project Manager, you will lead multi-disciplinary project teams to execute and deliver safe technical solutions to agreed standards, scope, on-time, and within budget. You will have established your reputation for the highest standards of service and technical delivery across a broad range of projects. As a senior member of our Ports team, you will be directly reporting to the US Northwest Ports and Maritime Lead. You will support managing our prospect portfolio, sales, and business development activities to deliver sustainable growth, support strategic positioning for specific opportunities, leading the delivery of projects and provide appropriate guidance and mentorship to help develop less experienced team members. You will coordinate project resources and plan tasks and will contribute to our business goals. As a secondary role, you will contribute delivering sustainable growth in line with our business strategy. This involves working closely with our sales and project teams in different verticals within Jacobs to identify how best we can support our clients, building our market position and winning profitable work, and at the same time enhance our offering through market accelerators, including energy transition, digital products and solutions offering. Jacobs have a focus on developing and bringing to market products and solutions. Given the significant opportunity to develop and deploy these products and solutions for the Ports and Maritime space the role will involve these initiatives. This will include supporting on strategy development and commercialization of products and services.

Requirements

At least 10 years of international experience working in the ports and maritime industry, including stakeholder engagement, and implementation of marine terminal projects.
Relevant bachelor's or advanced degree in related disciplines.
Understanding of the port and terminal market and trends, including automation/autonomy, electrification, decarbonization, resiliency and sustainable solutions.
Proven experience managing projects, leading multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.
Progressive ability to technically manage maritime projects, including preparation of project deliverables, managing quality, program, and resources.
Experience in engineering design of maritime structures, marine cargo terminal development and operations. A maritime related specialty experience is a plus.
Experienced in working within teams within fast-paced environment.
Familiar with the development and commercialization of products and services, and comfortable selling these products and services to our clients.
Ability and willingness to network throughout the Jacobs organization, nationally and internationally, to deliver the best results for our clients, our staff, and our projects,
Strong organizational, management and research skills with the ability to manage multiple projects at a time.
Experience in strategy development, business development, and sales.
Good commercial, financial and process understanding.
Excellent verbal, presentation and written communication, and report writing skills
Strong attention to detail and an ability to establish and meet deadlines/budgets.
Good interpersonal and organizational skills to lead meetings, facilitate and build relationships across operational and sales teams
Competency in AutoCAD and MS Office. Expertise on specific engineering software is a plus.
The ability to travel within the US and internationally.
Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC), or ability to obtain

Responsibilities

Project delivery within a multi-disciplinary and multi-geographic environment.
Inter-discipline and inter-office project planning, delivery, and financial performance.
Technical leadership and quality management of project deliverables.
Technical and professional leadership, support, and development of the team.
Support business development and sales activities, including products and solutions for the Ports and Maritime group.
Adherence and contribution to business and quality management systems.
Design safety leadership and developing and maintaining good safety culture.
Recruitment and team development; communication with clients and other design team members.
Support sales activity to deliver sustainable growth including preparation of proposals.
Support strategic positioning for specific opportunities, including sales opportunities and own process and data for pursuits.
Support client pursuits managing the operational inputs into bids, developing distinctive value propositions and win plans that and ensuring bid documents are consistent with these.
Develop high-quality opportunity-specific response documents with competitive and compelling sales messages to satisfy client business goals.

Benefits

Our 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. Employees have access to medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance, a 401(k) plan, and the ability to purchase company stock at a discount. Eligible employees may also enroll in a deferred compensation plan or the Executive Deferral Plan. Jacobs has an unlimited U.S. Personalized Paid Time Off (PPTO) policy for full-time salaried/exempt employees, seven paid holidays, one floating holiday, and caregiver leave. And certain roles may be eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, performance discretionary bonus, and stock.

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