Program Director - K-12

Overview

Lead K-12 design & construction programs, managing teams, budgets, and client satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities

• cost advisory
• design oversight
• value engineering
• schedule monitoring
• budget tracking
• quality assurance

Tasks

-Provide advice and recommendations regarding cost, design, construction, procurement, construction issues, schedules, and other conditions. -Ensure that the client's Processes and Procedures are being followed. -Implement and document proper procedures for executing the oversight for the design and construction program. -Build a cohesive collaborative team of professionals. -Understand and monitor Value Engineering and its impact on the community. -Manage teams of architects project managers, and contractors. -Ensure that coordination is effectively and efficiently performed between program management team and the client's staff and employees. -Responsible for complete compliance with the team's contract with the client. -Exercise responsibility to the client's staff for full implementation of assigned projects and duties of the team. -Monitor and communicate the status of budgets, schedules, and quality of the team's work to the client and Jacobs on a monthly basis. -Coordinate and collaborate with Construction Services' Staff and other departments.

Requirements

• leadership
• bachelor's
• owner rep
• design review
• communication
• 20 years

What You Bring

-Proven successful leadership skills. -Minimum bachelor’s degree in architecture, civil engineering, or construction management -Ability to effectively work with diverse communities, especially low-income neighborhoods. -Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. -Ability to effectively work with School board members and superintendents. -15-20 - years of relevant verifiable experience. -Ability to physically work in client's environment. -Must have experience as an owner's representative. -Exceptional interpersonal skills. -Must travel to construction sites, meetings with principals, meetings with communities. -Ability to oversee design and constructability reviews. -Must have experience with community engagement, charities, and workshops.

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About Jacobs

-Headquartered in Dallas, it has evolved into a global powerhouse delivering consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery services. -Its portfolio spans transformative projects—clean water systems, data centers, rail expansions, offshore wind roadmaps, and wastewater plants. -Specialising in advanced manufacturing, cities & places, energy, environmental, national security & defense, life sciences, transportation and water sectors. -Jacobs has reshaped itself via key moves—spinning off government services, acquiring CH2M in 2017, and exiting traditional oil & gas units. -Projects often tackle high-stakes, complex challenges: wastewater treatment in Vancouver, LIRR station upgrades, and AI data centres in Portugal. -Unusually, the firm shifted its HQ from California to Dallas in 2016 to align with its expanding national and global reach.

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