Senior ORAT Activation & Transition Lead for Aviation

Jacobs; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 226,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Stock purchase plan

Unlimited PPTO

Seven paid holidays

Caregiver leave

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking an ORAT Specialist to lead and coordinate operational readiness programs for aviation infrastructure projects. You will partner with senior ORAT professionals and project teams to mobilize trials, training, and organizational readiness across the project lifecycle.

The role requires leading defined workstreams, developing schedules, engaging stakeholders, and ensuring rigorous documentation and transition planning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in a related discipline.
• Experience contributing to ORAT, activation, airport or facility operations, construction, commissioning, training, trials, stakeholder engagement, or complex capital-program delivery.
• Ability to independently lead defined workstreams such as operational trials or Familiarization, Induction and Training activities.
• Experience coordinating stakeholders, facilitating or supporting meetings, and producing client-ready documentation.
• Knowledge of facility or airport operations and the relationships among design, construction, testing and commissioning, turnover, and readiness.
• Ability to read project schedules, identify dependencies, monitor milestones, and elevate emerging conflicts.
• Experience contributing to operational plans, Concepts of Operations, training materials, trial documentation, or transition plans.
• Ability to support or coordinate training, tabletop exercises, operational trials, simulations, and follow-up actions.
• Familiarity with risk, issue, action, decision, change, and quality-management practices.
• Availability to travel to project sites frequently.

Responsibilities

• Plan, mobilize, and execute ORAT programs across the project lifecycle, supporting or leading workstreams.
• Develop and maintain work plans, schedules, trackers, deliverable inputs, and coordination materials for ORAT activities.
• Support stakeholder engagement and coordinate with clients, operators, airlines, tenants, designers, contractors, vendors, regulators, and other partners.
• Gather, validate, and document operational requirements; contribute to Concepts of Operations and transition plans.
• Support Familiarization, Induction and Training activities, including needs assessments, content development, logistics, delivery, and tracking.
• Lead tabletop exercises, operational trials, simulations, and readiness evaluations with scripts and follow-up actions.
• Track ORAT dependencies and interfaces with design, construction, testing, commissioning, turnover, permitting, and milestones.
• Maintain readiness controls and collaboration tools, including risks, issues, dashboards, evidence, and SharePoint content.
• Prepare status reports, dashboards, presentations, and meeting materials.
• Facilitate working sessions and project meetings; document decisions, owners, due dates, and escalations.
• Manage tasks and workflows to scope, schedule, quality; communicate risks or blockers.
• Contribute to quality reviews, lessons learned, project closeout, and transition-to-service.
• Provide mentoring or guidance to junior staff when assigned.

Skills

Communication

Organization

Stakeholder management

Travel readiness

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in aviation management, engineering, construction management, operations management, planning, business

Tools

Microsoft 365

SharePoint

Job description

Jacobs is seeking an ORAT Specialist to lead and coordinate operational readiness programs for aviation infrastructure projects. You will partner with senior ORAT professionals and project teams to mobilize trials, training, and organizational readiness across the project lifecycle.

The role requires leading defined workstreams, developing schedules, engaging stakeholders, and ensuring rigorous documentation and transition planning.