Job Locations US-CA-San Carlos

ID

2025-4515

Category

Infrastructure

Type

Regular Full-Time

Imagine a piloted air taxi that takes off vertically, then quietly carries you and your fellow passengers over the congested city streets below, enabling you to spend more time with the people and places that matter most. Since 2009, our team has worked steadily to make this dream a reality. We’ve designed and tested many generations of prototype aircraft capable of serving in a network of electric air taxis. We’re looking for talented, committed individuals to join our team as we push onward toward certifying the Joby aircraft, scaling our manufacturing, and launching our initial commercial service.

About the Team:

Joby’s Infrastructure team is a diverse group of architects, planners, engineers, and builders delivering the vertiports and infrastructure that turn our aircraft into a safe, scalable, world-class service. We are seeking a Senior Construction Project Manager to join our highly innovative team developing deployable modular infrastructure to build vertiports at scale globally in dense urban environments. Working closely with our product, flight operations, and ground support equipment teams, we’re developing vertiport infrastructure designed for streamlined operations to maximize time savings for passengers, reinventing how infrastructure gets built and defining the future of aviation infrastructure.

About the Role:

The senior construction project manager will play a key role in developing vertiport infrastructure as a product that scales globally. You will rethink how vertiport terminals and electrified skydecks are designed and built, with a focus on design for constructability that allows for rapid on-site assembly without high skilled labor or heavy lifting equipment. You will work with our structural, mechanical, electrical and fire protection engineers to develop integrated systems to streamline deck electrification for aircraft charging, lighting, data, snow melt, and fire protection systems for elevated, floating and surface landing decks. You will drive innovation through prototype design, build and testing iteration to continually work towards optimized vertiport launch solutions.

• Oversee and own the full lifecycle of multidisciplinary construction projects.

• Provide guidance to design engineers on how to design for optimized construction.

• Provide preliminary rough order of magnitude (ROM) pricing estimates for projects during early design phases to help inform the most cost-effective solutions.

• Develop a pricing database with unit metrics to track unit costs across construction projects to benchmark the value of past and future bids.

• Engage with Product, Flight Operations and Ground Support Equipment teams to understand priorities and challenge requirements in a positive, collaborative way.

• Prepare bid documents, request and normalize bids, award projects based on the most qualified and cost-effective contractors, and proactively manage contractors to keep projects on schedule and mitigate change orders.

• Manage night shift/early morning contractors as project work requires.

• Manage and develop tools, documentation, and filing systems for tracking construction projects.

• Bachelor’s degree in civil, mechanical, aerospace or relevant engineering field.

• 5+ years of experience in mechanical engineering design, manufacturing and/or construction.

• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team, take initiative, and communicate effectively.

• Fundamental understanding of construction sequencing, safety, risk management, and quality control.

• Experience with project management of construction projects including estimating, cost control, schedule and contractor management.

• Ability to think creatively to collaborate across disciplines and departments in solving novel problems where few existing precedents, standards or methodologies exist.

• Experience managing projects with heavy rigging and steel erection, with knowledge about cranes, booms, jibs and assisted rigging options to find creative solutions to building on challenging sites and drive innovation.

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment managing multiple projects, with the ability to pivot to meet the dynamic needs of the company.

• Creativity to imagine and design cost, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability from scratch.

• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and calculations.

• Hands-on experience managing technicians, welders, and machine shops.

• Collaborative team player, eager to find the best solution while balancing cost and schedule.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Outcome driven and self-motivated with a positive attitude.

• Passion for aviation and advanced air mobility.

• Master’s degree in mechanical, structural, aerospace, or relevant engineering fields.

• Experience building and activating kinetic structures.

• Experience in aviation.

• Professional license or certification within the field.

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