
Senior Water/Wastewater Project Manager
Bingham Farms, MIFull-timePosted 8mo agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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Job overview
Jacobs is hiring a Senior Water/Wastewater Project Manager. Jacobs seeks a Senior Water/Wastewater Project Manager in Southeast Michigan to lead local project teams delivering safe water and wastewater solutions. The role involves mentoring staff, building client relationships, pursuing new work, and driving strategy, positioning, proposals, and contract negotiations while collaborating with global integrated delivery teams.
Key focus areas include Lead and mentor local project teams, Develop and maintain long-term client relationships, and Pursue new work through strategy development and positioning.
Successful candidates bring Bachelor's In Civil/Environmental/Chemical/Mechanical Engineering and Professional Engineer (PE) License. Important skills include Water/Wastewater Treatment, Multi-Discipline Design Management, Communication, Self-Motivated, Water/Wastewater Project Management, and Client Relationship Development.
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Full job description
Both providing safe, clean water and collecting and treating wastewater are necessary for our world’s communities. Here at Jacobs we get to provide the conveyance and storage needed to make this happen on the most iconic projects in our world. We’re seeking a Sr. Project Manager to work with our Water and Wastewater Clients in Southeast MI. You’ll grow your career by leading our local project teams already with significant resources supported by our international technical expertise to provide innovative and sustainable solutions for our Clients. You’ll play an integral role in leading and mentoring staff, forming long-term relationships with our clients, pursuing new work, including strategy development, positioning, proposing, and negotiating contracts. You’ll be a part of diverse multi-discipline teams, allowing you to both share what you know, as well as learn, so you can grow. Join us and we will assist you in continued development of your skills and exploring all that you can do across our global company. Your most impactful mission in this role is to embrace living inclusion every day and enabling diversity and equality globally. For us, this means creating a culture of belonging where we all thrive by embracing all perspectives. An inclusive culture with many perspectives through diverse backgrounds allows us to leverage knowledge, leadership, and connection to bring forth opportunity, creativity, and growth.
At Jacobs, we’re partnering across the globe to create the best project outcomes by maximizing the design, digital technology, and support capabilities of our Global Integrated Delivery (GID) teammates. By joining Jacobs, you’ll commit to supporting and engaging with these teams, as we work to build a company like no other. #BIA
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Bachelor’s Degree in civil, environmental, chemical, or mechanical engineering.
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Demonstrated understanding of one or all of the following: drinking water treatment, wastewater treatment, master planning, conveyance and storage, and/or treatment processes and technologies.
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Multi-discipline design management experience
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Strong communication skills, both written and oral
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Self-motivated, initiator; demonstrated by a desire to get the job done through whatever challenges arise
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Project management experience for water/wastewater infrastructure study and design projects
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Demonstrated ability to develop relationships with clients
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Professional Engineer (PE) License
Ideally, you’ll also have
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More than 15 years of progressive engineering and project management experience
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Master’s Degree in civil, environmental, chemical, or mechanical engineering
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Experience with process mechanical design and willingness to perform as the discipline lead role on an as-needed basis
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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.
How this job compares
Set against the 23,442 open Project Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 30, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Michigan median$107–187K/yr219 salary ranges
- Michigan median$45–57/hr22 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 445 open Project Manager jobs in Michigan and 23,442 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 15 years of experience — more than three in four Project Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 7 years, across 20,298 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 12,952 of the 23,442 open Project Manager jobs (55%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 30, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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