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In this role, as an Ecosystem Restoration Designer you will reside within the US West Environmental Permitting and Planning (EPP) Ecosystem - Restoration & Environmental Data Management & Analysis (RE) Department. You’ll lead projects providing expertise to clients to solve problems and meet multiple design objectives, while guiding teams to execute those tasks in a high-quality manner as a subject matter expert. You will work across geographies, performance units, and departments (e.g. Water Resources and Transportation) on engineering, biology, and sustainability projects. You will be joining the RE department consisting of restoration engineers, biologists, geomorphologists, landscape architects, arborists, project managers, GSI professionals, and more.

At Jacobs, we see our job as more than environmental and infrastructure consultants - our purpose is to create a more connected, sustainable world. We want you to bring your passion and expertise to our dynamic interdisciplinary team of scientist, environmental planners, engineers, landscape architects, and beyond to help solve the world’s most critical problems.

Together, our team helps deliver some of the most exciting and transformative infrastructure projects in the nation, from wildlife crossings to fish passages, habitat, wetland, and stream restoration, focused on sustainability and nature based solution initiatives. This is your opportunity to act as a technical support resource specialist in the field of environmental engineering and infrastructure ecology.

You’ll help advance the industry by delivering sustainable solutions for clients, partnering with Jacobs’ practitioners and subject matter experts. We’ll lean on you to support and develop engineering design, biological assessments, manage project tasks, delegate work, and collaborate with engineers, environmental staff, and other design practitioners of varying experience levels. You’ll also mentor junior and learn from senior practitioners to grow professionally. We’ll rely on you to develop and maintain strong client relationships to drive business through proposals, networking, and sole source opportunities. Duties will include project/task management, data analysis, report writing, design and engineering, field work, interagency/interdisciplinary coordination, and business development.

Using your experience, you’ll be a technical lead, performing design oversight and coordinating the use of resources to accomplish quality deliverables and respond to client needs. In addition, you will lead teams consisting of stream design, hydraulic and hydrologic modeling, fluvial geomorphology, and aquatic and wildlife biology staff to complete multi-discipline evaluations of streams, stream/roadway crossings, and watershed planning/analysis.

Your contributions will also be individually or as the leader of design teams to prepare, and/or review plans, technical specifications, contract documents, and estimates. Your teams will prepare basis of design reports, provide biological and geomorphic assessments, develop H&H models, floodplain analysis, bridge scour evaluation, wildlife-vehicle collision analysis, and habitat connectivity modeling.

Clients often include DOTs, Sound Transit, Cities, Counties, Districts at both a local level in Washington, nationally and potentially on a global scale supporting international projects. Agencies frequently engaged are Department of Fish and Wildlife, local tribal entities, and the Army Corps. Part of your role will be to build trust with clients as a seller-doer, to help with early, middle, and end game sales support. As a trusted partner external and internal to Jacobs, you will represent our One Jacobs capabilities to make sure we meet and exceed expectations.

•Bachelor’s degree in Biology, Civil or Environmental Engineering

•At least 5 years of professional engineering and planning experience on ecological connectivity crossing design, working with permitting agencies, and multidisciplinary teams

•Previous Department of Transportation (DOT), County, and/or or Municipal experience

•Experience with roadway design and/or structures design and developing other roadways components incorporated into a set of construction plans

•Ability to work withing a multi-disciplinary team

•Experience writing technical reports

•Strong self-motivation, problem-solving, and team-oriented work practices

•Excellent organizational skills, multitasking ability, and computer skills

•Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

•Proficiency with Microsoft Excel

Ideally, You'll Also Have:

•Master’s degree in Biology, Civil or Environmental Engineering

•Professional Engineering License in one or more states

•Construction oversight experience installing restoration designs

•Experience in project management for projects that include fish and/or wildlife crossings and ecological connectivity

•Proficiency with HEC-RAS 1D/2D and SHRH-2D

•Proficiency with ArcGIS

•Proficiency Civil 3D or MicroStation/Open Roads

•1 or more successful constructed restoration projects in the last 5 years in Pacific Northwest.

•1 or more successful won restoration projects in the last 5 years in Pacific Northwest.

•Proficiency applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to engineering design and planning analysis.

•Drone pilot’s license

•Proficiency with graphical design and renderings.

Jacobs is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, medical condition, marital or domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression and transgender status, mental disability or physical disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, citizenship, low-income status or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law. Learn more about your rights under Federal EEO laws and supplemental language.