Program Director - Healthcare Design & Construction

At Jacobs, we’re not just building structures, we’re helping our clients innovate and grow by designing, engineering, executing the construction, and operating their various facilities that shape our world.

We are seeking an experienced and collaborative Healthcare Program Director who excels in synchronizing teams and ensuring projects are completed on time and within budget. This position is based at our client's office in Texas Medical Center in Houston TX, reporting directly to our client’s Senior Vice President for Construction, Facilities Design and Real Estate.

You will be responsible for managing a team to deliver a new hospital program, as well as managing the project development from design through completion in alignment with program objectives.

You will oversee design and construction, addressing and resolving complex project-related issues while aligning multiple stakeholder interests. As the Owner's Representative and strategic expert, you will ensure the progress and technical performance of the project, in addition to its schedule, cost, scope, and team safety. Your role is crucial for maintaining connectivity within our company, and we will provide the necessary support to ensure your success.

Core Responsibilities:

• Program Governance: Managing the overall program scope, multi-year capital budgets, cash flow projections, and master schedules. Lead the development of a PMP and/or PEP.

• Stakeholder Integration: Lead coordination between hospital executives, clinical user groups, architects, engineers, contractors, and local authorities having jurisdiction.

• Inpatient Tower Oversight: Manage the A/E team during the design and construction of complex clinical spaces, ICUs, and patient rooms. Manage the design team fast-track procurement and early trade packages for excavation, foundations, and long-lead MEP equipment. Coordinate rigorous commissioning, life-safety inspections, and partial occupancy milestones for active medical environments. Ensure all design and construction workflows conform to strict health standards, including Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) guidelines, life safety codes, and infection prevention protocols.

• Design Team Oversight: Lead multidisciplinary architectural and engineering consultants from programming through construction documents, ensuring clinical functionality and compliance. Manage the CMAR procurement process, contractor selection, pre-construction services, value engineering, and constructability reviews. Direct multidisciplinary coordination among architecture, structure, MEP/FP, medical equipment (MEQ), technology, security, vertical transportation, and specialty healthcare systems. Ensure design decision support clinical functionality, operational requirements, constructability, maintainability, and lifecycle objectives. Manage design deliverables, review cycles, comments, RFIs, submittals, and design changes.

• Risk & Change Management: Monitor program-wide risk logs, identify potential schedule or budget bottlenecks, and implement proactive mitigation plans.

• Schedule & Budget Control: Monitor critical path schedules, mitigate delays, and manage cost controls across all multi-million-dollar phases. Oversee subconsultants and contractors, tracking requests for information (RFIs), submittals, change orders, and schedule baseline health via Primavera P6 software.

Bring your curiosity, passion for innovation, and talent for multitasking in a fast-paced environment. We will help you grow, pursue, and fulfill what inspires you, so together, we can make significant impacts on the world.

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, Engineering, Construction Management or a related field.

• 10+ years of related healthcare design and construction project management experience.

• Strong working knowledge of pre-design and pre-construction, construction management, building systems/components and technology,

• Contract management, project delivery methods, team building and client relationship building.

• Proven Experience managing $1 Billion+ hospital projects.

• Reside in the Houston area or willing to relocate to be onsite daily.

Ideally, You’ll Also Have:

• Master’s Degree in related field

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