[Remote] Senior Program Manager

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Jacobs is a global company focused on solving critical challenges across cities, environments, infrastructure, science, and manufacturing. The Senior Program Manager will lead a large environmental asset retirement and remediation portfolio in partnership with a client, overseeing delivery from assessment through regulatory closure. The role will establish and optimize the Colorado program, lead a team of approximately 200 staff and subcontractors, manage financial and operational performance, and maintain client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead approximately 2,000 asset retirement projects in a collaborative, risk-sharing partnership, delivering environmental remediation from assessment through closure
• Establish and mature the Colorado sub-program during the first 6 to 18 months, including delivery strategies, governance, operating rhythms, performance measures, staffing, and cross-functional relationships
• Apply knowledge of asset retirement programs and the regulatory and technical nuances of onshore upstream oil and gas remediation, including applicable ECMC requirements
• Build and lead a team of approximately 200 staff, including subcontractors, by aligning capabilities, behaviors, and resources with partnership objectives and strong project performance
• Deliver services under performance-based and outcome-based models that include profit at risk and financial incentives
• Assess financial and delivery performance, identify risks, and engage client and internal operations leaders on corrective actions that protect outcomes and margin performance
• Oversee project manager performance, including resourcing, technical engagement, financial performance, risk and change management, safety, quality, and predictable delivery
• Adapt quickly as site conditions, regulatory expectations, or client priorities change across a large and dynamic portfolio; lead continuous improvement and innovation that produce measurable value over time
• Manage delivery against KPIs, cost-savings targets, milestones, and planned financial performance; lead statusing, negotiation, and rebaselining when milestones cannot be achieved
• Lead annual business planning, scope development, budgeting, resource planning, and milestone definition across the portfolio in collaboration with project managers
• Communicate goals, targets, and outcomes clearly, using negotiation and relationship-building skills to align teams around annual business plans
• Collaborate with client Portfolio Managers and Alliance peers to coordinate delivery approaches and share lessons learned and best practices
• Support other sub-program managers and portfolios during the initial Colorado buildout by applying program, operational, commercial, and client-management expertise
• Perform internal Manager of Project (MOP) responsibilities, maintain compliance with Jacobs’ Business Management System (BMS), and report to the Program Director and Designated Project Executive (DPE)
• Maintain long-term client relationships while delivering safe, predictable projects that minimize client liabilities and progress sites toward closure

Skills

• • Bachelor's degree in engineering, environmental science, geology, business, construction management, or a related field
• • Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in environmental consulting, onshore upstream oil and gas, asset retirement, environmental remediation, or a closely related industry
• • Demonstrated experience leading large, complex programs or portfolios, including operational management of project managers and multidisciplinary teams
• • Experience with onshore upstream oil and gas asset retirement or related well closure, assessment, remediation, reclamation, or regulatory closure programs
• • Knowledge of client asset retirement programs and performance- or outcome-based delivery models, including profit-at-risk or incentive structures
• • Working knowledge of Colorado environmental and oil and gas regulatory requirements, including experience working with ECMC
• • Experience managing portfolios with significant financial accountability, including budgeting, forecasting, margin performance, cost savings, KPIs, risk, and change management
• • Experience leading large multidisciplinary teams and subcontractors, ideally approximately 200 people or of comparable scale and complexity
• • Strong client management, communication, collaboration, negotiation, and relationship-building skills
• • Ability to establish a new program, build internal and client networks, create consistent delivery systems, and drive continuous improvement
• • Willingness and ability to travel as required, potentially up to 50%
• • Valid driver's license with no major infractions
• • Experience with Jacobs or comparable business management systems; familiarity with operational leadership responsibilities preferred

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Basic life insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Ability to purchase company stock at a discount
• Eligible employees may enroll in a deferred compensation plan
• Eligible employees may enroll in the Executive Deferral Plan
• Unlimited U.S. Personalized Paid Time Off (PPTO) for full-time salaried/exempt employees
• Seven paid holidays
• Caregiver leave
• Certain roles may be eligible for merit increases
• Certain roles may be eligible for a performance discretionary bonus
• Certain roles may be eligible for stock
• Hybrid working policy allowing employees to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations

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