At Jacobs, we're not just building structures. We are 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 in Columbus, OH, 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 project management professional who is driven by collaboration, exceeding expectations, and challenging the status quo. 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. 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 to establish 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 effort to complete. Lead scope and cost change management. Prepare and negotiate changes.

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. By joining Jacobs, you’ll commit to supporting and engaging with these teams, as we work to build a company like no other.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related discipline

• At least 5 years of experience as a Project Design Lead for advanced technology, semiconductor, and/or data center facilities

• Effective verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to work onsite in Columbus, OH

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Engineer in Training (EIT) or Professional Engineer (PE)

• Project Management Professional Certification (PMP)

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