ORAT Specialist: Readiness & Transition Leader

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. seeks an Operational Readiness, Activation & Transition (ORAT) Specialist to advance ORAT programs across aviation and infrastructure projects.

You will lead workstreams, develop plans, and coordinate with clients, operators, and contractors for successful openings and transitions. Ideal candidates have a degree in aviation management or related fields and experience with ORAT activities, stakeholder engagement, and project controls.

Qualifications

• Clear written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication appropriate to project-team and client environments.
• Strong organization, attention to detail, follow-through, and ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Collaborative approach and ability to work effectively with clients, operators, designers, contractors, vendors, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and SharePoint; experience with scheduling, dashboard, risk, or project-management platforms is preferred.
• Ability to travel frequently and work on-site or variable hours when required for trials, transitions, or facility openings.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the planning, mobilization, and execution of ORAT programs across the project lifecycle, supporting or leading assigned workstreams as appropriate.
• Develop and maintain work plans, schedules, trackers, deliverable inputs, and coordination materials for assigned ORAT activities.
• Support stakeholder engagement and operational interface planning and build effective working relationships with clients, operators, airlines and tenants, designers, contractors, vendors, regulators, and other project partners.
• Gather, validate, and document operational requirements and contribute to Concepts of Operations, procedures, transition plans, responsibility matrices, and opening strategies.
• Support or coordinate Familiarization, Induction and Training activities, including needs assessments, content development, logistics, delivery, and completion tracking.
• Support or lead, as appropriate to grade and assignment, tabletop exercises, operational trials, simulations, and readiness evaluations, including scripts, logistics, observations, findings, and follow-up actions.
• Track ORAT dependencies and interfaces with design, construction, testing and commissioning, systems integration, turnover, permitting, and operational milestones.
• Maintain readiness controls and collaboration tools, including risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, actions, decisions, dashboards, evidence, and SharePoint content.
• Prepare clear status reports, dashboards, presentations, meeting materials, and recommendations for project teams and client review.
• Facilitate or support working sessions and project meetings; document decisions, owners, due dates, constraints, and required escalations.
• Manage assigned tasks and workflows to agreed scope, schedule, quality, and documentation standards and promptly communicate risks or blockers.
• Contribute to quality reviews, lessons learned, project closeout, and transition-to-service activities.
• Provide coordination, mentoring, or guidance to junior staff and project team members when assigned.

Skills

Clear written communication

Strong organization

Collaborative teamwork

MS 365 & SharePoint

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in aviation management, Engineering, Construction Management, Operations Management, Planning, Business, or related discipline

Tools

Microsoft 365

SharePoint

Job description

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. seeks an Operational Readiness, Activation & Transition (ORAT) Specialist to advance ORAT programs across aviation and infrastructure projects.

You will lead workstreams, develop plans, and coordinate with clients, operators, and contractors for successful openings and transitions. Ideal candidates have a degree in aviation management or related fields and experience with ORAT activities, stakeholder engagement, and project controls.