Program Director - Healthcare Design & Construction

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 179,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Stock purchase program

Job summary

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. is seeking an experienced Healthcare Program Director based at the Texas Medical Center in Houston.

You will manage a hospital program from design through completion, aligning scope, schedule, and budget with client objectives and regulatory standards. You will lead design and construction teams, coordinate with executives, architects, engineers, and contractors, and ensure life safety, infection control, and project milestones are met.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, engineering, construction management or related field.
• 10+ years of healthcare design and construction project management experience.
• Strong knowledge of pre-design, pre-construction, construction management, and building systems.

Responsibilities

• Oversee program governance, multi-year capital budgets, cash flow projections, master schedules, and PMP/PEP development.
• Coordinate hospital executives, clinical user groups, architects, engineers, contractors, and authorities.
• Manage design and construction of inpatient towers, fast-track procurement, and long-lead MEP equipment with strict health standards.

Skills

Project management

Healthcare design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in architecture, engineering, construction management or related field

Master’s degree (preferred)

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

At Jacobs, we’re not just building structures, we’re helping our clients innovate and grow by designing, engineering, executing the construction, and operating their various facilities that shape our world.

We are seeking an experienced and collaborative Healthcare Program Director who excels in synchronizing teams and ensuring projects are completed on time and within budget. This position is based at our client's office in Texas Medical Center in Houston TX, reporting directly to our client’s Senior Vice President for Construction, Facilities Design and Real Estate.

You will be responsible for managing a team to deliver a new hospital program, as well as managing the project development from design through completion in alignment with program objectives.

You will oversee design and construction, addressing and resolving complex project‑related issues while aligning multiple stakeholder interests. As the Owner's Representative and strategic expert, you will ensure the progress and technical performance of the project, in addition to its schedule, cost, scope, and team safety. Your role is crucial for maintaining connectivity within our company, and we will provide the necessary support to ensure your success.

Core Responsibilities

• Program Governance: Managing the overall program scope, multi‑year capital budgets, cash flow projections, and master schedules. Lead the development of a PMP and/or PEP.
• Stakeholder Integration: Lead coordination between hospital executives, clinical user groups, architects, engineers, contractors, and local authorities having jurisdiction.
• Inpatient Tower Oversight: Manage the A/E team during the design and construction of complex clinical spaces, ICUs, and patient rooms. Manage the design team fast‑track procurement and early trade packages for excavation, foundations, and long‑lead MEP equipment. Coordinate rigorous commissioning, life‑safety inspections, and partial occupancy milestones for active medical environments. Ensure all design and construction workflows conform to strict health standards, including Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) guidelines, life safety codes, and infection prevention protocols.
• Design Team Oversight: Lead multidisciplinary architectural and engineering consultants from programming through construction documents, ensuring clinical functionality and compliance. Manage the CMAR procurement process, contractor selection, pre‑construction services, value engineering, and constructability reviews. Direct multidisciplinary coordination among architecture, structure, MEP/FP, medical equipment (MEQ), technology, security, vertical transportation, and specialty healthcare systems. Ensure design decision support clinical functionality, operational requirements, constructability, maintainability, and lifecycle objectives. Manage design deliverables, review cycles, comments, RFIs, submittals, and design changes.
• Risk & Change Management: Monitor program‑wide risk logs, identify potential schedule or budget bottlenecks, and implement proactive mitigation plans.
• Schedule & Budget Control: Monitor critical path schedules, mitigate delays, and manage cost controls across all multi‑million‑dollar phases. Oversee subconsultants and contractors, tracking requests for information (RFIs), submittals, change orders, and schedule baseline health via Primavera P6 software.

Bring your curiosity, passion for innovation, and talent for multitasking in a fast‑paced environment. We will help you grow, pursue, and fulfill what inspires you, so together, we can make significant impacts on the world.

Here’s what you’ll need

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, Engineering, Construction Management or a related field.
• 10+ years of related healthcare design and construction project management experience.
• Strong working knowledge of pre‑design and pre‑construction, construction management, building systems/components and technology,
• Contract management, project delivery methods, team building and client relationship building.
• Proven Experience managing $1 Billion+ hospital projects.
• Reside in the Houston area or willing to relocate to be onsite daily.

Ideally, You’ll Also Have

• Master’s Degree in related field

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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 $178,500.00 to $250,000.00. 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 October 02, 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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