North America Geothermal Project Engineer

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Your impact

The energy industry is undergoing rapid and dramatic changes, moving away from fossil fuels to alternative energy sources. At the same time, the risks posed by climate change and aging infrastructure require an array of dynamic and innovative solutions to deliver resilient utility services. This energy transition is still in its early stages, and presents significant technical, logistical, and market challenges. Decarbonization will require detailed planning, multi‑disciplinary collaboration, significant financial resources, and motivated staff to support successful implementation.

There is an upward trending pressure on the renewables industry to provide reliable baseload power. Jacobs has assessed that the geothermal market in North America has an emerging surge of interest across geothermal power generation, direct use for process industries, district heating and ground source heat pump technologies driven by decarbonization of almost all sectors.

Responsibilities

• Promote Jacobs’ North America Geothermal team capabilities amongst personal client network
• Support proposal development with task descriptions and manhour estimates
• Provide advisory and design solutions for geothermal project development and technical delivery as part of our geothermal team
• Collaborate with our Technical Leadership, Operations, Client Account Managers and sales professionals
• Support global geothermal engineering teams on projects requiring power plant expertise
• Mentor Jacobs power plant engineers in the nuances of geothermal design

This role will be hybrid, full‑time, 40 hours/week. Travel will be required.

THIS ROLE CAN SIT IN ANY OF OUR JACOBS OFFICE LOCATIONS, NATIONWIDE

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Engineering
• 10+ years of experience in geothermal power plant engineering
• Proven ability to engage with clients, develop relationships and win work, and then deliver innovative solutions providing value to both the client and provider
• Demonstrated skills on concept and developed design optimization programs to guide sound technical guidance for decision making
• Experience with types of geothermal power generation including binary, flash, dry steam, combined cycle, etc.
• Experience in all aspects of project development and delivery including but not limited to feasibility studies, cost estimating, conceptual and detailed engineering design, commissioning support, Owner’s engineering, plant upgrades post‑commissioning, due diligence, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to work with multi‑discipline engineering teams

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.