Manager of Projects (MOP)

Role Overview

Safety and Leadership

• Promote a strong HSE culture and ensure project teams comply with Jacobs and client requirements.
• Manage, coach, and support the professional development of Project Managers.
• Ensure succession plans are in place and recommend hiring and termination actions with appropriate leaders.
• Drive teams to provide outstanding service and solutions to clients.
• Keep global and regional management and Program Directors informed about critical project issues and developments.

Strategic Account and Portfolio Management

• Lead coordination across a portfolio of data center projects, ensuring consistent delivery, effective risk management, and alignment with client expectations.
• Partner with sales and account teams to maintain the data center pipeline, identify opportunities, and support proposal development.
• Coordinate utilization forecasts, resource inputs, and delivery changes with Global Integrated Delivery.
• Coordinate with teams in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Asia-Pacific on integrated delivery and design standards.
• Support proposals, pricing, schedules, risk reserves, and services for private developers and power infrastructure projects.
• Partner with Project Managers and Client Account Managers to maintain client satisfaction, resolve issues, and support account growth.
• Support business-plan forecasting and accurate project estimates to complete.
• Drive planned gross margin through change management, cash management, staffing, and delivery of value-added services.

Quality and Project Controls

• Ensure compliance with project execution and quality policies, procedures, protocols, work instructions, and mandated project tools.
• Review and approve project risk registers, mitigation plans, execution plans, and quality plans.
• Conduct monthly Operational Project Reviews and publish reports with critical issues and actions.
• Attend Project Accounting Reviews for projects meeting applicable thresholds.
• Review monthly estimates at completion and address variances with Project Managers.
• Monitor accounts receivable and unbilled revenue and work with Project Managers to address issues.
• Ensure quality-plan adherence through surveys, deliverable checks, and quality-control audits.
• Ensure Project Managers coordinate with operational, group, and design leaders to assign appropriate staff.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, business, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least 10 years of experience managing projects related to energy, transmission and distribution, industrial facilities, advanced facilities, or data centers.
• Demonstrated experience leading Project Managers and multidisciplinary teams across multiple concurrent projects.
• Experience with project financial management, forecasting, risk management, change management, and client relationship management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting data center developers, utilities, independent power producers, infrastructure investors, or other private-sector clients is preferred.
• Professional Engineer or Project Management Professional certification is advantageous.

Compensation

• The posted base salary range is CAD 168,600 to CAD 221,325 for Ontario, Canada locations.
• Individual pay is determined by work location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Workplace

• Jacobs uses a hybrid working policy that allows employees to split their work week between offices or projects and remote locations.

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