Facilities Program Manager- Transportation

Jacobs; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 174,900 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) plan

Unlimited PPTO

Stock purchase

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking a Facilities Program Manager to lead planning, development, and delivery of transportation infrastructure and facilities projects.

You will oversee multi-disciplinary teams, manage scope, budgets, schedules, and risk, coordinating with clients, engineers, and regulators to ensure successful outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field is required.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in transportation, transit, bus, rail, roadway, bridge, or related programs.
• Experience delivering programs from planning through closeout.
• Strong budgets, forecasting, scheduling, and risk management experience.
• Experience coordinating with transit agencies, public works, utilities, and AHJs.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of transportation, transit infrastructure and facilities programs from planning through project completion.
• Manage project scope, budget, schedule, quality, contracts, funding, and risk management activities.
• Coordinate with clients, architects, engineers, contractors, transit operators, utilities, public agencies, and regulatory authorities.
• Oversee operational readiness, testing, commissioning, and transition-to-operations activities.
• Develop and implement program strategies, governance processes, project controls, and executive reporting.
• Support stakeholder engagement and client relationship management.
• Lead multidisciplinary project teams and foster collaboration across project participants.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Organization

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Transportation Planning, Business, or a related field

Tools

PMIS platforms

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

We are seeking a Facilities Program Manager to lead the planning, development, and delivery of complex transportation infrastructure and transit programs and facilities projects. This role is responsible for overseeing multiple project assignments, ensuring successful delivery of cost, schedule, quality, risk, and stakeholder objectives. The Program Manager will serve as a key liaison between clients, consultants, contractors, transit agencies, and project teams while fostering collaborative relationships and driving project success.

In this role, you will manage projects from planning and design through construction, testing, commissioning, operational readiness, and turnover to operations. You will provide leadership and oversight of multidisciplinary teams, coordinate activities across stakeholders, and develop strategies to mitigate risks and resolve issues. Experience supporting transportation projects such as rail, transit, roadway, bridge, utility infrastructure, and facility improvement programs is highly valued.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of transportation, transit infrastructure and facilities programs from planning through project completion.
• Manage project scope, budget, schedule, quality, contracts, funding, and risk management activities.
• Coordinate with clients, architects, engineers, contractors, transit operators, utilities, public agencies, and regulatory authorities.
• Provide oversight of operational readiness, activation, testing, commissioning, and transition-to-operations activities.
• Develop and implement program strategies, governance processes, project controls, and executive reporting.
• Support stakeholder engagement, executive presentations, permitting activities, and client relationship management.
• Lead multidisciplinary project teams and foster collaboration across all project participants.

Here's what you\'ll need

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Transportation Planning, Business, or a related field.
• 15+ years of progressive experience managing transportation, transit, bus, rail, roadway, bridge, utility infrastructure, or capital improvement programs.
• Experience delivering projects through planning, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, activation, and closeout.
• Demonstrated experience managing budgets, forecasting, scheduling, funding, change management, risk registers, quality assurance, and safety programs.
• Experience coordinating with transit agencies, public works departments, utilities, contractors, consultants, and authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs).
• Strong leadership, communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP, CCM, PE, PMI-CP, or related professional certification.
• Experience serving as an Owner\'s Representative or leading PM/CM services within public-sector transportation programs.
• Rail or transit operations, systems integration, testing, commissioning, and activation experience.
• Experience with federally funded programs, FTA requirements, PMIS platforms, document control systems, and executive-level program reporting.
• Experience managing complex programs in active operating environments requiring coordination of construction, operations, maintenance, utilities, and multiple stakeholder groups.

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, 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 $174,900.00 to $240,000.00. 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. Job posted on July 28, 2026. This position will be open for at least 3 days.

Onsite employees are expected to attend a Jacobs Workplace on a full-time basis, as required by the nature of their role.

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