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Project Manager - Water Treatment/Pumping

Jacobs

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Location
Reston, VA
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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Professional Engineer LicenseBachelor's degree

Job overview

Jacobs seeks a Water Treatment/Pumping Project Manager for its Mid-Atlantic and East Central region. The role leads multidisciplinary teams in designing water treatment and pumping facilities, supports business development, and works directly with clients to build long-term relationships. The manager will also assist with team building and mentoring younger engineers, while learning from senior project managers and technologists.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Multidisciplinary Team ManagementWater Treatment EngineeringProcess EngineeringWater Systems Planning and DesignWastewater Systems Planning and DesignDrinking Water SupplyMaster PlanningTreatment Processes and TechnologiesWritten CommunicationOral CommunicationSelf-MotivationInitiative

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Engineering or Related15+ Years Consulting Engineering ExperienceProfessional Engineer LicenseMaster's in Civil/Environmental Engineering

Benefits

Relocation Assistance

Full job description

As global supply and demand for water intensifies, solving the world’s most complex water challenges demands different thinking - and that’s where we come in. We’re seeking a Water Treatment/Pumping Project Manager to join our mid-Atlantic and East Central region. Someone who can use their vast experience in the water industry and apply it to today’s challenges. As a valued Jacobs employee, you will work with multi-disciplinary teams to achieve successful design of water treatment and pumping facilities as well as help lead clients to the correct treatment approach by utilizing modeling tools, bench scale analysis, pilot plant design and operation, and full-scale design, construction and commissioning of water treatment plants and pump stations. You’ll have the opportunity to work with conventional and advanced treatment processes, including coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, granular media filtration, biological filtration, membrane filtration, disinfection (ozone, UV, chlorine), adsorption technologies, and other treatment processes.  We’ll rely on you to support business development efforts and help in the pursuit of new projects, as well as work directly with clients on the projects and tasks that you are leading, developing long-term client relationships. Design your career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow, and succeed.  Learn from our senior project managers and technologists who are experts in the industry, with the expectation that you will assist with team building and mentoring of younger engineers.

  • The ideal candidate will sit near one of our major offices within the East Central or Mid-Atlantic region.

  • Bachelor’s Degree in civil, chemical, environmental, or mechanical engineering.

  • Need to demonstrate the skill set of being able to successfully manage muti-disciplined teams for large projects (i.e. design fees greater than $4M)

  • Extensive years of experience in relevant water treatment and process engineering, including water, wastewater, and reuse systems

  • Planning and design experience in water distribution system, including pipelines, pumps stations and storage tanks

  • Planning and design experience in wastewater systems, including pipelines, pump station, and treatment plants and knowledgeable about water systems.

  • Demonstrated understanding of drinking water supply, master planning, and treatment processes and technologies.

  • Strong communication skills, both written and oral

  • Self-motivated, initiator; demonstrated through professional society involvements or related activities

  • Minimum of 15 years experience in the consulting engineering industry.

  • Professional Engineer (PE) Licensure is required.

  • Relocation assistance will be considered but not guaranteed.

Ideally, you’ll also have

  • Master’s Degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering

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How this job compares

Set against the 22,848 open Project Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Virginia median$116–178K/yr774 salary ranges
  • Virginia median$45–70/hr43 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,067 open Project Manager jobs in Virginia and 22,848 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Virginia
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 6 years, across 19,695 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 11,849 of the 22,848 open Project Manager jobs (52%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 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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