Director Of Operations, West Central Water Market

Americas West Central Director Of Water Operations

Are you a visionary leader ready to shape the future of water infrastructure across Jacobs West Central geography? Do you embrace innovative solutions to provide our clients and communities the very best from a worldwide delivery team? If you are - come join our purpose-driven team of 1200+ professionals spanning ten states, where innovation, sustainability, and people-first leadership drive everything we do. We are excited to announce a career opportunity for which we are seeking expressions of interest from qualified candidates who wish to be considered for the Americas West Central Director of Water Operations. This is a fast-paced role reporting directly to the Executive Director of Operations and will have direct reports inclusive of Department Leaders, Managers of Projects, and select others. The successful candidate will bring a collaborative approach to cultivating partnerships with a wide range of cross-functional teams and leaders from finance, sales and people partners including HR, Talent Acquisition, Health & Safety, and Jacobs Employee Network (JEN) leaders.

Business Metrics and Key Performance Indicators: This position is responsible for delivering the fiscal year annual plan, inclusive of:

• Bottom line growth (net revenue and operating margin) year over year consistent with CAGR and SAM
• Delivering operating margin with proportional gross margin (GM) to general and administrative (G&A) per FY Plan GM:G&A ratio
• Achieving net hiring goals, both US based and global (i.e. Global Aligned Team Members) needed to achieve both Billable Hours (BH) and Global Integrated Delivery (GID) Hours
• Top line growth (jointly with sales team), inclusive of lowering booked to billed time
• Continual delivery and improvement year over year of Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)

Responsibilities: As Director of Operations, you will lead a high-performing team and drive operational excellence, financial performance, and strategic growth for the Water Performance Unit (PU). You'll be a key member of the West Central Leadership Team, and you will be a champion for innovation, inclusion and growth.

Financial Leadership

• Bringing executive level business/financial acumen to deliver business KPIs and identify margin expansion opportunities
• Lead quarterly Water PU business forecasts against fiscal year plan

Team & Talent Development

• Enterprise leadership, along with inspiring and mentoring future leaders through coaching and career development
• Lead key recruiting and retention efforts, including creating a culture of caring that invests in our people and results in continued low attrition and highly engaged teams

Client & Market Engagement

• Drive market expansion through strategic partnerships and client engagement, in partnership with sales, regional technologist and alternative delivery leads
• Grow global delivery models, including driving and promoting use of global delivery centers to meet client commitments, bring innovation solutions from around the world and to maintain a growth mindset.

Operational Excellence & Risk Management

• Promote BeyondZero, quality, and safety programs to create an incident- and injury-free culture
• Serve in key roles for higher risk projects and top pursuits, inclusive of engaging with Jacobs contracting, risk and legal teams as appropriate
• Proven success in managing large, geographically dispersed teams
• Strong financial acumen and experience with P&L ownership
• Track record of operational transformation and driving growth
• Inclusive leadership style with a passion for people development
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and execute top business needs, while flexing to changing needs (maintain agile pace of play)
• Champion for both global delivery and digital delivery adoption & growth
• Market knowledge of trends and drivers in the water market, inclusive of alternative (design build) delivery.
• 15+ years in leadership roles, preferably directly in operations for infrastructure and/or water markets
• Engineering or business degree, masters preferred

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