Location
Gainesville, FL
Type
Full-time
Posted
9/18/2026
Compensation
$125,000 - $165,000 per year
Job description
The Senior Civil Engineer (Water/Wastewater) role at Jacobs focuses on leading the planning, design, and delivery of water, wastewater, and municipal infrastructure projects. Based in Gainesville, Florida, this position supports the Southeast geography and involves collaboration with multidisciplinary teams. The engineer will serve as a technical leader and primary point of contact for clients, ensuring the successful execution of projects. This role emphasizes innovation, collaboration, and professional growth within a supportive environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from an accredited program.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license required; Florida PE license preferred or the ability to obtain Florida licensure through comity.
- 10+ years of progressively responsible civil engineering experience, with significant experience in water, wastewater, and municipal infrastructure.
- Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary projects from planning and design through bidding and construction.
- Strong knowledge of civil engineering principles, design standards, permitting requirements, and industry practices related to water and wastewater infrastructure.
- Experience managing project scope, budgets, schedules, client expectations, and technical deliverables.
- Strong technical writing, presentation, communication, and client relationship skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and develop project team members.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft 365 applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and Teams.
- Proficiency with Autodesk or Bentley design platforms.
Responsibilities
- Lead the planning, design, and delivery of water, wastewater, and municipal infrastructure projects.
- Serve as Project Manager or Technical Lead on projects involving water distribution and transmission systems, wastewater collection systems, and related infrastructure.
- Develop and oversee engineering reports, technical memoranda, design calculations, plans, specifications, cost estimates, schedules, and construction documents.
- Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and oversight to engineers, designers, CAD technicians, and other project team members.
- Manage project scope, schedule, budget, deliverables, and quality in coordination with Project Managers and firm leadership.
- Coordinate with clients, regulatory agencies, contractors, subconsultants, and multidisciplinary project teams.
- Review survey data, geotechnical information, basemaps, existing utility records, and other project information to support sound design decisions.
- Lead civil design efforts, including utility layouts, grading, drainage, erosion and sediment control, site development, and constructability considerations.
- Conduct quality-control and quality-assurance reviews of technical work and project deliverables.
- Support permitting, bidding, and construction-phase services, including responding to requests for information and reviewing submittals.
Benefits
- Employees at Jacobs are often offered benefits designed around physical, emotional, financial and social wellbeing, including health and safety programs, mental health support, retirement and financial planning resources, flexible time off and initiatives that support a strong culture of caring.
H-1B filing history
Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026
Filing entity: Jacobs Engineering Group Inc
As of Aug 23, 2026
Initial approvals
55
FY2026
Approval rate
98.3%
FY2026
LCA certified
32
FY2026
Entry-level share
18.8%
FY2026
Initial approvals YoY
+57%
Trend
LCA certified YoY
-80%
Trend
Initial approvals by fiscal year
Approval rate by fiscal year
Continuing vs initial approvals
LCA certified positions by quarter
LCA certified positions by fiscal year
Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.
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