Design Senior Project Manager - Semiconductor

Advanced Manufacturing At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

At Jacobs, we’re not just building structures. We’re helping our clients innovate and grow by designing, engineering, and executing the construction of their advanced manufacturing facilities that are changing our world. 

As a Design Senior Project Manager, you’ll join our collaborative team providing our clients with award-winning planning, engineering, architectural design, construction management, and design-build project delivery.

We are looking for people passionate about project design delivery in the following areas:

• Servant leader to the project team.
• Create conditions supportive of team well-being.
• Guide and facilitate establishing integrated, coordinated workflow.
• Ensure the team can focus and be productive.
• Keep attention on continually improving how we do what we do.
• Guide the team in the development of their plan to complete the project and hold authority over that plan. Lead schedule problem-solving.
• Facilitate holistic, reliability, and achievable plans to deliver complete and coordinated work.
• Communicate the team's plan, constraints, and help needed to stakeholders. Negotiate on behalf of the team.
• Know the status of all work.
• Work within a coherent project production system and work coordination routines.
• Develop and institute production systems that serve the team. Ensure their effective use.
• Engage performers, discipline leads, project leadership, and discipline management for enrollment, encouragement, and directives to engage effectively in planning.
• Lead recurring planning sessions and daily check-ins.
• Facilitate scope breakdown and work structuring to enable a coordinated flow of small multidiscipline batches of work.
• Guide the team and leadership in the prioritization of work. Respond with agility to evolving project needs.
• Integrate stakeholders, including Trade Partners, into the design process.
• Coordinate trade constructability engagement with design.
• If trades are performing design, ensure that their work satisfies next-customer needs and that trade commitments are managed.
• Responsible for technical quality assurance and control.
• Ensure that required reviews occur and are documented and that appropriate registered professionals stamp work. Always move the team toward building quality into the work.
• Responsible for package ownership and production, deliverables issuance, and coordinating documentation. Manage preparation, facilitation, and adjudication of customer design reviews. Prepare meeting notes.
• Work with design disciplines and design partners to forecast staffing needs, resolve staffing gaps, and forecast efforts to complete. Lead scope and cost change management. Prepare and negotiate changes.

Your keen ability to handle complex design challenges, and communicate effectively, will allow you to thrive in our fast-paced environment. You’ll provide motivation and direction to project teams and be surrounded by expert mentorship and mentoring opportunities to help you and your team thrive. Working together, we’ll help you grow and pursue what fulfills you so that we can make impacts on the future – big and small, global, and local.

Here's what you'll need

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, related discipline or equivalent relevant experience
• At least 7 years of experience in managing projects related to industrial semiconductor facilities

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Engineering in Training (EIT) certification or Professional Engineer (PE) registration
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Forward-thinking, eager to learn best practices, and contribute with innovative ideas
• Displayed ability to learn quickly and driven to broaden the knowledge base
• Ability to collaborate and work effectively in a variety of teams, including multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience with the design of hazardous chemicals and gases used in semiconductor fabs

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Posted Salary Range: Minimum

175,000.00

Posted Salary Range: Upper

225,000.00

Our health and welfare benefits are designed to invest in you, and in the things you care about. Your health. Your well-being. Your security. Your future. Employees have access to medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance, a 401(k) plan, and the ability to purchase company stock at a discount. Eligible employees may also enroll in a deferred compensation plan or the Executive Deferral Plan. Jacobs has an unlimited U.S. Personalized Paid Time Off (PPTO) policy for full-time salaried/exempt employees, seven paid holidays, and caregiver leave. And certain roles may be eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, performance discretionary bonus, and stock.

The base salary range for this position is $175,000.00 to $225,000.00. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. Job posted on June 16, 2026. This position will be open for at least 3 days.

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

Your application experience is important to us, and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team via Careers Support .

Locations

City State Country
Moon Township	Pennsylvania	United States
Moon Township	Pennsylvania	United States