Design Project Director - Semiconductor

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.; Portland (OR); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Design Project Director to lead complex high-tech projects. This role requires managing client relationships, overseeing project delivery, and ensuring adherence to budget and quality standards. You will leverage your extensive project management experience in the semiconductor field to guide teams and mentor professionals, fostering a collaborative environment. With a hybrid work policy, this position offers the opportunity to work on innovative projects that make a real impact on the future. Join a forward-thinking company dedicated to creating sustainable solutions and advancing your career.

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Plan

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Floating Holiday

Caregiver Leave

Stock Purchase Plan

Performance Bonus

Qualifications

• 10-20 years of experience managing industrial/commercial projects.
• Experience as a Project Manager on Advanced Technology or Semiconductor Projects.

Responsibilities

• Manage business-customer relationships and oversee program implementation.
• Ensure subcontractor performance meets contractual requirements.
• Provide regular project status reports to senior management.

Skills

Project Management

Engineering

Client Relations

Budget Management

Team Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Master's degree in Engineering

Project Management Professional Certification (PMP)

Job description

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

Across our company, across our offices, across the world, we’re continually challenging today to reinvent tomorrow. At Jacobs, we make the world smarter, more connected, more sustainable, and more secure. Together, we’re pushing the limits of what’s possible. We stay ahead to create the new standards our future needs.

Challenging today is our response to the increasing complexity our world is experiencing. It calls on us to join forces, putting our knowledge and imagination together to reinvent the way we solve problems and shape the next generation of innovative solutions.

Reinventing tomorrow is our promise and an invitation to raise the bar in everything we do. From the brilliant solutions we create with our clients, to the open and inclusive culture we create for our people. From the positive difference we make in our communities, to the added value we deliver to our shareholders.

Together, we’re pushing the limits of what’s possible. We stay ahead to create the new standards our future needs with our key accelerators Climate Response, Data Solutions & Consulting/Advisory.

As part of the Jacobs Electronics team, your role as a Design Project Director will be to manage complex fast track high tech projects.

In this role, you will be the liaison with senior client project management to support business relations and work closely with the team to support successful project delivery. Responsible for the formation and implementation of the complex fast track projects, contract management, WBS and the Performance Baseline, the project managers on the project, and Subcontract management. The Design Project Director is responsible for reporting contract cost and schedule performance to the Customer and the senior operations management.

You will apply your project design management knowledge and experience in the technical delivery of Semiconductor projects to support the commercial and technical interface between project teams and the client and their stakeholders. Your direction, guidance, and support will help our teams to achieve excellence, and you’ll therefore play an important role in supporting our client's overall project goals.

You’ll be a key contributor to project delivery and at the same time, you’ll utilize your project design management technical expertise and passion to mentor other professionals, nurturing their purpose and guiding them.

You will be responsible for ensuring that there is a clear understanding of the project remit, contract, safety, and risk definition, the scope is well-defined, and project managers have budgeted for each activity to be carried out by each discipline. You will ensure that the project management has had the appropriate dialogue between the disciplines during the project life, and, where necessary, between the different offices involved in the project.

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. We’ll provide you the means and tools to work on a wide variety of interesting and challenging projects to grow your career and help create a more sustainable future.

Here’s what you will be doing:

• Managing the business-customer relationship.
• Planning and overseeing the implementation of the program, ensuring staying within budget constraints and meeting requirements.
• Managing the financial and schedule requirements.
• Staffing and managing necessary resources to ensure program requirements are met.
• Ensuring subcontractors’ performance meets all contractual requirements and quality standards.
• Maintaining close liaison with the customer to prioritize key tasking and ensure timely resolution of any programmatic issues.
• Developing/coordinating estimates, proposals, BOEs, and other projects/task-related contractual actions with the appropriate stakeholders.
• Providing oral and written reports of program/project/task status and ensures contract deliverables are delivered to the appropriate stakeholders’ contractual requirements.
• Regularly briefing senior management and other key stakeholders on program/project/task status measurement data.
• Endorsing and implementing company policies and procedures.
• Completing employee performance appraisals and employee counseling’s, if assigned the responsibilities of employee supervision.

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.

Here's what you'll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management or 4 additional years of work experience in lieu of a degree.
• 10-20 years of experience in managing projects related to industrial and/or commercial facilities.
• Experience as a Project Manager on Advanced Technology or Semiconductor Projects.

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Project Management Professional Certification (PMP).
• Master's degree in Engineering, Project Management, or related field.

Jacobs’ 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.

The base salary range for this position is $168,000.00 to $230,000.00. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.