Job Description

Director of Operations, West Central Water Market

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Base pay range

$205,000.00/yr - $325,000.00/yr

About Jacobs

At Jacobs, were challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the worlds most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, missioncritical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cuttingedge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

Are you a visionary leader ready to shape the future of water infrastructure across Jacobs West Central geography? Do you embrace innovative solutions to provide our clients and communities the very best from a worldwide delivery team? If you are come join our purposedriven team of 1200+ professionals spanning ten states, where innovation, sustainability, and peoplefirst leadership drive everything we do.

We are excited to announce a career opportunity for which we are seeking expressions of interest from qualified candidates who wish to be considered for the Americas West Central Director of Water Operations. This is a fastpaced role reporting directly to the Executive Director of Operations and will have direct reports inclusive of Department Leaders, Managers of Projects, and select others. The successful candidate will bring a collaborative approach to cultivating partnerships with a wide range of crossfunctional teams and leaders from finance, sales and people partners including HR, Talent Acquisition, Health & Safety, and Jacobs Employee Network (JEN) leaders.

Business Metrics and Key Performance Indicators

• Bottom line growth (net revenue and operating margin) year over year consistent with CAGR and SAM
• Delivering operating margin with proportional gross margin (GM) to general and administrative (G&A) per FY Plan GMG&A ratio
• Achieving net hiring goals, both US based and global (i.e. Global Aligned Team Members) needed to achieve both Billable Hours (BH) and Global Integrated Delivery (GID) Hours
• Top line growth (jointly with sales team), inclusive of lowering booked to billed time
• Continual delivery and improvement year over year of Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)

Responsibilities

Financial Leadership

• Bringing executive level business/financial acumen to deliver business KPIs and identify margin expansion opportunities
• Lead quarterly Water PU business forecasts against fiscal year plan

Team & Talent Development

• Enterprise leadership, along with inspiring and mentoring future leaders through coaching and career development
• Lead key recruiting and retention efforts, including creating a culture of caring that invests in our people and results in continued low attrition and highly engaged teams

Client & Market Engagement

• Drive market expansion through strategic partnerships and client engagement, in partnership with sales, regional technologist and alternative delivery leads
• Grow global delivery models, including driving and promoting use of global delivery centers to meet client commitments, bring innovation solutions from around the world and to maintain a growth mindset

Operational Excellence & Risk Management

• Promote BeyondZero, quality, and safety programs to create an incident and injuryfree culture
• Serve in key roles for higher risk projects and top pursuits, inclusive of engaging with Jacobs contracting, risk and legal teams as appropriate

Heres what youll need

• Proven success in managing large, geographically dispersed teams
• Strong financial acumen and experience with P&L ownership
• Track record of operational transformation and driving growth
• Inclusive leadership style with a passion for people development
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and execute top business needs, while flexing to changing needs (maintain agile pace of play)
• Champion for both global delivery and digital delivery adoption & growth
• Market knowledge of trends and drivers in the water market, inclusive of alternative (design build) delivery
• 15+ years in leadership roles, preferably directly in operations for infrastructure and/or water markets
• Engineering or business degree, masters preferred

Benefits

Our health and welfare benefits are designed to invest in you, and in the things you care about. Your health. Your wellbeing. Your security. Your future. Employees have access to medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance, a 401(k) plan, and the ability to purchase company stock at a discount. Eligible employees may also enroll in a deferred compensation plan or the Executive Deferral Plan. Jacobs has an unlimited U.S. Personalized Paid Time Off (PPTO) policy for fulltime salaried/exempt employees, seven paid holidays, one floating holiday, and caregiver leave. And certain roles may be eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, performance discretionary bonus, and stock.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

We value collaboration and believe that inperson interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

Your application experience is important to us, and were keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team via Careers Support.

Location: San Francisco, CA

Job posted on January 06, 2026. This position will be open for at least 3 days.

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