Program Manager-Deputy Director (Construction Management Department)

Job description

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by delivering innovative solutions that improve communities and quality of life. As the Program Manager-Deputy Director for our client’s Construction Management Department (CMD), you’ll play a key leadership role in planning and delivering complex community facility programs across Florida, including healthcare, education, administration, recreation, and operational support facilities that serve growing populations.

In this role, you'll oversee the full project lifecycle, from capital planning and budgeting through design, construction, commissioning, and closeout. Working closely with clients, consultants, contractors, and Jacobs subject matter experts, you'll drive successful program delivery by maintaining alignment on scope, schedule, budget, quality, and governance requirements while supporting strategic decision-making and long-term infrastructure investment.

What you'll do

• Lead the planning, development, and delivery of capital improvement programs for community facility projects across Florida.
• Support annual capital investment planning efforts, including project prioritization, budgeting, and cost estimating coordination.
• Manage architectural and engineering consulting firms through procurement, contract negotiation, design development, permitting, and construction documentation.
• Partner with client and Jacobs teams to oversee project execution while maintaining compliance with project scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives.
• Assist clients with procurement strategies, contractor selection, and construction contract negotiations.
• Direct construction management activities through commissioning, occupancy, and project closeout.
• Monitor project budgets and schedules and provide executive-level reporting on project performance, risks, and change management activities.
• Develop, implement, and maintain program management plans, processes, workflows, and guidance documentation.
• Coordinate and engage Jacobs' technical specialists and subject matter experts to support project delivery and resolve complex challenges.
• Support executive leadership on strategic initiatives, resource planning, policy development, stakeholder engagement, and community outreach efforts.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Construction Management.
• 25+ years of experience in facilities design, construction, and capital improvement program (CIP) management.
• Experience leading large-scale vertical building programs, including healthcare, educational, administrative, recreational, or institutional facilities.
• Experience serving in an Owner's Representative, Program Management, or Contractor leadership role with responsibility for project delivery from planning through commissioning and closeout.
• Demonstrated experience managing project budgets, schedules, procurement activities, consultant teams, and construction contracts.
• Experience supporting executive-level decision-making, financial planning, and program governance.

One or more of the following professional certifications

• Certified Construction Manager (CCM) through CMAA (strongly preferred)
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• AACE certification (PSP, CEP, CCE) Ideally, you'll also have
• Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• Certified General Contractor credential.
• Experience delivering complex public, institutional, healthcare, educational, recreational, or administrative facility projects.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing multiple concurrent projects within large capital programs. This position is based onsite at our Davie, Florida office. Remote and hybrid work arrangements are not available for this role.

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship. #LI-KD1 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.

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