Senior Project Manager, Wastewater

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Your impact

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by delivering sustainable infrastructure solutions that improve the quality of life in our communities. We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Project Manager – Wastewater based in the Lower Mainland to join our British Columbia Water team.

In this role, you'll combine technical leadership with project delivery excellence, leading multidisciplinary teams through the design, procurement, construction, and commissioning of regional wastewater treatment, collection, pumping, and resource recovery facilities.

As part of one of the world's leading wastewater consultancies, you'll help deliver some of BC’s most significant wastewater infrastructure projects.

What You'll Do

As a Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for the successful delivery of complex multidisciplinary projects while providing technical leadership, commercial oversight, and mentoring to project teams.

Responsibilities Include

• Lead multidisciplinary teams through all phases of project delivery, including detailed design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and start-up support.
• Manage design and construction projects involving wastewater treatment plants, pumping stations, collection systems, and biosolids/resource recovery facilities.
• Develop and manage project execution plans, including scope, schedule, budget, quality, health and safety, risk, communications, and change management.
• Manage project financial performance, including forecasting, fee management, profitability, invoicing, and cash collection.
• Maintain strong relationships with clients and act as a trusted advisor throughout project delivery.
• Support business development activities, strategic pursuits, proposal preparation, and client presentations.
• Mentor, coach, and develop junior engineers, technical specialists, and project managers while fostering technical excellence and collaboration.
• Champion Jacobs' Culture of Caring while promoting quality, safety, innovation, and continuous improvement.
  
  
  

Here's what you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Civil, Chemical, Environmental, or Mechanical Engineering.
• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation in British Columbia.
• Minimum 15 years of progressively responsible experience delivering wastewater infrastructure projects, or comparable process-intensive infrastructure projects.
• Demonstrated experience successfully managing multidisciplinary engineering and/or construction projects with total installed construction values exceeding $250 million.
• Demonstrated experience delivering projects using traditional Design-Bid-Build (DBB) procurement methods,
• Significant Construction Phase and Field Review Experience, including site reviews, management of RFIs, design clarifications, non-conformance resolution, change management, and commissioning/start-up support.
• Demonstrated experience managing project scope, schedule, budget, quality, contractual obligations, and project risk.
• Strong commercial acumen, including project financial management, forecasting, profitability, fee management, and resource planning.
• Demonstrated experience managing client accounts, developing long-term client relationships, and supporting strategic business development initiatives.
• Proven ability to mentor and develop technical staff while leading high-performing multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
  
  
  

Posted Salary Range Minimum

190,000.00

Posted Salary Range Upper

240,000.00

The base salary range for this position is $190,000.00 to $240,000.00. This range reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across British Columbia, Canada locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

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