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Jacobs seeks a Senior Hydraulic Engineer to deliver specialized engineering assignments for dams, hydropower, water conveyance, and storage infrastructure. The role may include technical and project management responsibilities across project planning, execution, and closeout, as well as staff mentorship, client relationship development, and pursuit of new work. The position is aligned with the Corvallis office, with consideration for other Jacobs office locations.
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If you’re interested in a rewarding career working with a global leader and with the industry’s best and most innovative professionals, then Jacobs is where you belong. Our teams commonly engage at the forefront of large, complex projects to help navigate the competing challenges of reliable water supply and protection of natural resources. We’re seeking a Senior Hydraulic Engineer with experience in dam, hydropower, agricultural irrigation, and other large civil infrastructure projects in the federal, utility, municipal and private client spaces in Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Alaska, and other western US states. As a Senior Hydraulic Engineer, you’ll work with clients and other members of our local and regional team to perform specialized engineering assignments for large capacity dam, hydropower, water conveyance, and storage infrastructure. Work includes design for spillways, stilling basins, intakes, siphons, penstocks, fish passage structures, diversion structures, open channel flow and low-pressure head conduit, flow control structures, pump stations, force mains, and other similar structures.
Depending on project size and complexity, you will serve as a Senior Hydraulic Engineer, Task Manager, Design Manager, Assistant Project Manager and Project Manager performing technical tasks, leading technical teams, quality control, and coordinating the use of resources to manage multiple, concurrent water infrastructure projects throughout all phases of project planning, execution, and closeout. You’ll lead and manage project teams throughout all phases of project planning, execution, and closeout; consistent with established project delivery processes to meet the scope, schedule, budget, and other specified requirements stated in each contract. You’ll also play an integral role in leading and mentoring staff, forming long-term relationships with clients and pursuing new work, including strategy development, positioning, proposing, and negotiating contracts.
At Jacobs, you will have the opportunity to grow professionally through your participation with high-functioning project teams delivering challenging projects and industry leading Market Solutions group that is focused on developing innovative solutions. Through these projects you will also build client relationships and foster future client opportunities in collaboration with our Sales Team. As a leader in your field, you will have ample opportunity to invest in junior staff through individual mentorship, leaving your lasting impact on the industry’s future leaders. Join us and we will support professional growth and help you explore all that you can do across our global company, with opportunities to share your knowledge along the way. This position is aligned with our Corvallis office; however, successful candidates may also be considered to work from other Jacobs office locations.
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Master’s degree in Mechanical, Structural, Civil or other related engineering discipline.
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Registration as a Professional Engineer (PE) is required. If not registered in Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, or Alaska you must be able to obtain within six months of hire.
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Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in engineering and related roles.
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Technical delivery experience on dams, hydropower facilities, fish passage, site development, irrigation diversion, water resources, large water conveyance projects and economic analysis.
Ideally, you’ll also have:
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Demonstrated ability as a seller-doer capable of developing business in the local market.
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Experience in working within multi-disciplinary teams of both in-house team members and external partners to accomplish complex engineering, planning, and design assignments is required.
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Design Management, Assistant Project Management, and Project Management experience providing leadership and oversight of the design and preparation of plans, specifications, estimates, studies, proposals and/or reports.
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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 21,231 open Project Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Oregon median$111–184K/yr173 salary ranges
- US median$45–60/hr792 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 268 open Project Manager jobs in Oregon and 21,231 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience; Project Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years at the median (18,534 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a master's degree; 108 of the 21,231 open Project Manager jobs (under 1%) ask for a master's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 13, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.
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