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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.
We're looking for a motivated Project Engineer with 2-5 years of experience to join our Design-Build team supporting the delivery of a landmark water treatment facility in Farmington, New Mexico. This project will provide reliable drinking water to communities within the Navajo Nation, including areas that have historically never had access to treated potable water.
This role offers a unique opportunity to be involved in both project delivery and commissioning activities on a major municipal water infrastructure project. Working alongside experienced engineering, construction, and operations professionals, you will play a key role in coordinating design and construction activities while helping plan, execute, and document the startup and commissioning of a new treatment facility.
You will work full-time on-site with the Jacobs design-build team, subcontractors, vendors, and client representatives to support construction execution, technical coordination, system readiness, and successful project startup. As part of a fully integrated design-build team, you will collaborate directly with engineers, constructors, commissioning specialists, and operations staff to solve problems quickly and gain exposure to all phases of project delivery.
This position's initial assignment will support the San Juan Water Treatment Plant project outside of Farmington, New Mexico. Upon successful completion of this assignment, the selected candidate will have the opportunity to transition to another Jacobs Design-Build project. Future assignments are expected to be located elsewhere in the western United States or other U.S. project locations, providing continued opportunities for career growth and exposure to major infrastructure projects.
Here's What You'll Be Doing
- Support daily construction activities and coordination between engineering, construction, vendors, and subcontractors.
- Manage and track submittals, RFIs, and design changes to support timely project execution.
- Coordinate equipment procurement and delivery to support construction and startup milestones.
- Maintain project documentation, including as-built drawings and turnover packages.
- Assist with schedule tracking and coordination of assigned scopes of work.
- Support implementation of project quality, safety, and change management processes.
- Participate in development of commissioning plans, startup procedures, and system testing protocols.
- Assist with commissioning, startup, and performance testing of treatment processes, pumping systems, instrumentation, controls, and support facilities.
- Coordinate turnover from construction to commissioning and from commissioning to operations.
- Work closely with plant operations personnel to support training, operational readiness, and system acceptance.
- Help identify and resolve technical issues that arise during construction, startup, and commissioning.
Your Impact
Join a team delivering infrastructure that will have a lasting impact on communities. This is an opportunity to contribute to a project that improves public health, expands access to clean drinking water, and creates meaningful benefits for generations to come while developing hands-on experience in both design-build delivery and commissioning of a major treatment facility.
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field.
- 2-5 years of experience in construction, engineering, water/wastewater infrastructure, industrial facilities, commissioning, or related project delivery environments.
- Internship or professional experience supporting construction projects, field engineering, project engineering, or commissioning activities.
- Strong organizational and communication skills with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced field environment.
- Willingness to work full-time on-site.
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to collaborate across engineering, construction, vendor, and client teams.
- Experience with water, wastewater, industrial, process, or utility infrastructure projects.
- Exposure to commissioning, startup, operations, or O&M activities.
- Familiarity with project controls, scheduling, RFIs, submittals, and construction documentation.
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 a 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 $78,600.00 to $120,000.00. 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 November 11, 2026. This position will be open for at least 3 days.
Onsite employees are expected to attend a Jacobs Workplace on a full-time basis, as required by the nature of their role.
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.
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.
We're looking for a motivated Project Engineer with 2-5 years of experience to join our Design-Build team supporting the delivery of a landmark water treatment facility in Farmington, New Mexico. This project will provide reliable drinking water to communities within the Navajo Nation, including areas that have historically never had access to treated potable water.
This role offers a unique opportunity to be involved in both project delivery and commissioning activities on a major municipal water infrastructure project. Working alongside experienced engineering, construction, and operations professionals, you will play a key role in coordinating design and construction activities while helping plan, execute, and document the startup and commissioning of a new treatment facility.
You will work full-time on-site with the Jacobs design-build team, subcontractors, vendors, and client representatives to support construction execution, technical coordination, system readiness, and successful project startup. As part of a fully integrated design-build team, you will collaborate directly with engineers, constructors, commissioning specialists, and operations staff to solve problems quickly and gain exposure to all phases of project delivery.
This position's initial assignment will support the San Juan Water Treatment Plant project outside of Farmington, New Mexico. Upon successful completion of this assignment, the selected candidate will have the opportunity to transition to another Jacobs Design-Build project. Future assignments are expected to be located elsewhere in the western United States or other U.S. project locations, providing continued opportunities for career growth and exposure to major infrastructure projects.
Here's What You'll Be Doing
- Support daily construction activities and coordination between engineering, construction, vendors, and subcontractors.
- Manage and track submittals, RFIs, and design changes to support timely project execution.
- Coordinate equipment procurement and delivery to support construction and startup milestones.
- Maintain project documentation, including as-built drawings and turnover packages.
- Assist with schedule tracking and coordination of assigned scopes of work.
- Support implementation of project quality, safety, and change management processes.
- Participate in development of commissioning plans, startup procedures, and system testing protocols.
- Assist with commissioning, startup, and performance testing of treatment processes, pumping systems, instrumentation, controls, and support facilities.
- Coordinate turnover from construction to commissioning and from commissioning to operations.
- Work closely with plant operations personnel to support training, operational readiness, and system acceptance.
- Help identify and resolve technical issues that arise during construction, startup, and commissioning.
Your Impact
Join a team delivering infrastructure that will have a lasting impact on communities. This is an opportunity to contribute to a project that improves public health, expands access to clean drinking water, and creates meaningful benefits for generations to come while developing hands-on experience in both design-build delivery and commissioning of a major treatment facility.
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field.
- 2-5 years of experience in construction, engineering, water/wastewater infrastructure, industrial facilities, commissioning, or related project delivery environments.
- Internship or professional experience supporting construction projects, field engineering, project engineering, or commissioning activities.
- Strong organizational and communication skills with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced field environment.
- Willingness to work full-time on-site.
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to collaborate across engineering, construction, vendor, and client teams.
- Experience with water, wastewater, industrial, process, or utility infrastructure projects.
- Exposure to commissioning, startup, operations, or O&M activities.
- Familiarity with project controls, scheduling, RFIs, submittals, and construction documentation.
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 a 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 $78,600.00 to $120,000.00. 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 November 11, 2026. This position will be open for at least 3 days.
Onsite employees are expected to attend a Jacobs Workplace on a full-time basis, as required by the nature of their role.
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.
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Who's Hiring
- SpaceX17
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Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in build engineer jobs.
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or CircleCI
- Proficiency in at least one scripting language, commonly Python, Bash, or Groovy
- Familiarity with build systems like Bazel, Gradle, Maven, or CMake
- Experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
- Knowledge of artifact management platforms such as Artifactory or Nexus
Tips for Your Build Engineer Job Search
Tailor your resume to pipeline tooling
Hiring managers scan for specific tools: Jenkins, Bazel, Gradle, CMake, or GitHub Actions. List the exact systems you've maintained or built from scratch, and call out any performance improvements you shipped, like reduced build times or flakiness rates.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists build engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Show ownership of reliability improvements
Build engineers who can demonstrate they reduced build failures or cut pipeline latency stand out immediately. Quantify the before-and-after in your resume bullets rather than describing the system in general terms.
Target postings that name your artifact ecosystem
Job descriptions that mention your specific package manager, artifact repository, or container registry signal a strong fit. Filter openings by those keywords so your application speaks directly to the stack they're already running in production.
Prepare a build failure post-mortem for interviews
Interviewers for build engineer roles frequently ask how you diagnosed and resolved a broken or slow pipeline. Have one concrete incident ready: what failed, how you traced the root cause, and what you changed so it wouldn't recur.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
Build engineers often start in a support capacity before getting ownership of greenfield pipeline work. During offer conversations, ask directly which pipelines you'd own on day one and what the roadmap looks like, so you understand the actual role before you accept.
Build Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most build engineers?
SpaceX, Amrize, and Relativity Space are hiring the most build engineers right now, with openings concentrated in California, Texas, and Washington, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially strong at companies scaling large monorepos or migrating legacy build infrastructure to cloud-native pipelines.
How many build engineer jobs are remote?
About 42% of build engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how much of the work happens through terminals and dashboards rather than on-site hardware. Roles focused on cloud-based CI/CD and artifact management tend to offer the most location flexibility, while positions tied to embedded or hardware build systems are more likely to require an on-site presence.
How do you become a build engineer?
Start by getting comfortable with at least one CI/CD platform and a build system like Gradle or Bazel through personal projects or open-source contributions. Build scripting skills in Python or Bash, since most pipeline work involves automating repetitive tasks. From there, look for a junior DevOps or release engineering role where you can own a real pipeline, then move toward dedicated build engineering as you accumulate hands-on experience with large codebases.
Can you get hired as a build engineer without much experience?
Yes, but you'll need to show concrete work with pipeline tooling even if it's outside a formal job. Contributing fixes to open-source CI configurations, building a reproducible build system for a personal project, or documenting a Dockerfile optimization in a public repository all demonstrate real competence. Many employers will consider candidates who show they understand the problem domain, even without a long professional history in the role.
What does the build engineer interview process look like?
Most build engineer interviews include an initial recruiter screen, a technical phone or video round focused on scripting and CI/CD concepts, and a practical exercise where you debug or design a pipeline. Some teams add a system design conversation about build infrastructure at scale. The final round is typically a panel with the engineering team, covering past incidents, tooling decisions, and how you approach cross-team dependencies when a build change breaks downstream consumers.
Where can I find and apply to build engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to build engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the roles available, find the ones that match your experience and tooling background, and apply directly to each listing that fits.
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