Rail and Transit Group Leader

Group Lead Rail & Transit Market

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 transforming intangible ideas into innovative solutions designing the future today. Therefore, we are seeking a Group Lead to provide inspirational leadership on our challenging and fast-paced systems projects in the Rail & Transit Market.

When you join us, you'll have the opportunity to use your vast experience in the industry and apply it to solving today's challenges with a special focus on supporting our clients with Project Leadership & Delivery, Systems Engineering & Integration, Stakeholder Engagement, Quality Assurance & Safety, and Innovation & Standards.

Reporting to the Rail & Transit Department Leader, and as a senior member of our team, you'll play an integral role in mentoring staff, developing capability & right sizing capacity to support our current projects & future pipeline, forming long-term relationships with clients and pursuing new work, including strategy development, positioning, proposing, and negotiating contracts. Also, you'll have the opportunity to continue relationships with existing clients.

We'll look to your expertise and skills while you provide effective, project management support in helping to reduce the costs of delivering projects, maintaining top technical delivery and adding value to the business through developing our talent.

Let us empower you (and your team) to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow, and succeed.

Key Attributes

Deep expertise in Rail & Transit Systems such as OCS, signaling, train control, traction power, communications, track design and systems integration along with strong leadership and project management capabilities.

High level of emotional intelligence/team builder

Adept at interpersonal relationship building, conflict resolution, and leading diverse teams

Innovative and solutions-oriented thinker

Strong social, networking, and communication skills (both internal and external)

Team metrics, portfolio performance and strong business acumen

Knowledge of Jacobs' internal talent & project delivery systems

Key Responsibilities

You'll serve as a people leader and will be accountable and responsible for the following activities:

Supervise and provide staff leadership, management, and mentorship to your technical team of all levels

Serve as key technical expert and resource on projects within the Systems disciplines

Manage staff performance and help talent grow and develop, utilizing the e3 process and succession planning for staff within the Rail & Transit market department

Steward career development basic skill development and sustainment, growth opportunities and skill refinement

Coach, develop and mentor staff to deliver superior results collectively and individually

Coordinate across the region to have knowledge of our collective capacity & capability to optimize resource management and provide opportunities for staff growth

Coordinate with Project Delivery teams to cascade processes, procedures, and other information to staff within Rail & Transit market and monitor progress.

Drive quality control across projects

Facilitate GID delivery

Build team culture in concert within overall performance unit and company goals/strategy, and communicate with aligned staff (i.e., regular team meetings and 1:1 meetings, etc.)

Track and manage staff assignments and total billable hours on a weekly basis. Partner with the PMs, and other project execution staff, to deliver on project needs

Coordinate team backlog with Department Leader and CAM

Coordinate with other Rail & Transit Group Leaders across the Region and within BIA.

Act as hiring manager where appropriate for new staff locally and with our Global Design Centers, working in concert with others around established hiring plans; including helping our business achieve TogetherBeyond goals and integrates new hires

Work in partnership with Human Resource (HR) partner and Talent Acquisition (TA) on recruiting and hiring of talent, talent retention, driving Inclusion and Diversity, and exemplifying and leading Jacobs Culture of caring throughout the Market department

Promote BeyondZero, quality, and safety programs to create an incident- and injury-free culture

Approve time sheets and expense reports for aligned staff.

The final candidate could be located in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia or Pittsburgh, PA, Baltimore or Silver Spring, MD or Reston, VA.