Senior Air Quality Modeler

Jacobs

The Role

Overview

Lead air dispersion modeling projects for permitting, monitoring, and reporting.

Requirements

  • aermod
  • harp2
  • pe
  • pmp
  • bachelor's
  • master's

What You Bring

-Familiarity with state and federal air regulations and regulatory processes. -Bachelor’s degree in environmental, civil, or chemical engineering; meteorology; or other closely related technical degree. -Experience using HARP2 for air quality health risk assessments. -Demonstrated business development and client service skills, including the ability to identify sales opportunities, lead or participate in sales efforts, close deals, manage scope changes, and write proposals. -Ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing with clients, contractors, and teammates. -Experience in developing, reviewing, and implementing work plans and quality assurance project plans. -Professional Engineer or Project Management Professional (PE or PMP) or ability to obtain and maintain. -Experience with project and account management tools and applications, such as cost pricing, project statusing and tracking, and customer account relationship tools. -Experience with small, medium, or large-scale client environmental consulting projects and representing clients to stakeholders, including regulatory agencies. -A minimum of five years of air quality dispersion modeling using AERMOD. -Experience as a Project Manager on air quality projects (preferably in consulting), including scope, schedule, and budget management. -A minimum of fifteen years of professional air quality project experience, including permitting, modeling, monitoring, and reporting (preferably in consulting). -Proven organizational, interpersonal, negotiation, leadership, and analytical skills. -US citizenship. -Experience with direct client interaction. -Proven experience developing winning proposals and successfully managing projects with respect to clients, contracts, stakeholders, scope, schedule, budget, diverse teams, quality, risk, change, and profit. -Ability to travel up to 25%. -Demonstrated commitment to continuous development and active engagement in professional networks, company communities of practice groups, or similar. -Master’s degree in environmental, civil, or chemical engineering; meteorology; or other closely related technical degree.

The Company

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.

Sector Specialisms

Advanced Manufacturing

Cities & Places

Energy

Environmental

National Security & Defense

Life Sciences

Transportation

Water

Cybersecurity and Operational Technology