Field Engineering Manager at Bechtel Corporation
Project Overview
Great infrastructure transforms communities. Our customers' projects have a higher purpose – their roads, rail, communications, airports and energy projects are a gateway to a modern prosperous world.
Job Summary
In this role, you will report to the General Manager Construction and Logistics, and you will provide capital portfolio-wide oversight of all field engineering activities. Your oversight will provide assurance that field engineering activities are complete and conform to quality standards and the capital portfolio management team's performance expectations.
Major Responsibilities
Actively interface with engineering, construction interface, health and safety, environment and sustainability, community, workplace relations, contract management and other relevant teams to ensure project delivery priorities are maintained.
Implement assurance program to monitor that the work by contractors is undertaken in a manner that addresses and eliminates people and environmental hazards, and that risk analysis, health risk assessments, and work method statements, where required, are in place.
Leadership / Supervision
Proactively engage with teams' development through competency development/assessment and feedback. Review construction manager and field engineering staffing requirements for effective service delivery.
Planning
Manage the review of all contractor submittals including construction schedules, management plans, progress reports, and changes as required.
Establish a design/field engineering working relationship and lines of communication with project engineering including agreement on engineering deliverables.
Monitor that contractor construction engineering activities are in compliance with procedures and the contract.
Coordinate the interfacing between the construction automation plan and the project controls program.
Support the engineering team with review of contractor's design for constructability and compliance with the contract.
Construction / Quality
Coordinate the review of contractor quantity take-offs, reporting and forecasting.
Coordinate the reviews of contractor submittals, including daily reports of contractor progress and performance.
Coordinate technical input and oversight for the reviews of contractor construction non-conformances.
Identify areas of risk and opportunity in contractor performance.
Contracts / Commercial
Oversee the preparation of the request for tender documentation, project construction schedule, and interface strategy and actively participate in the procurement phase including evaluations and recommendations for award.
Education and Experience Requirements
Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 13-15 years of relevant experience or 17-19 years of relevant work experience.
Required Knowledge and Skills
Skill in working and communicating effectively both orally and in writing with other project functional groups.
Proven ability to build strong relationships with customers and team members.
Technical knowledge of engineering systems, engineering calculations, applications of engineering methods and materials and applications of building information modelling, 3‐D computer‐aided design (CAD) and computer‐aided engineering (CAE) to engineering problems.
Demonstrated technical knowledge of related construction systems, applications of engineering and construction methods and materials for major infrastructure or aviation projects.
Sound working knowledge of contract management.
Field engineering experience on large construction projects (experience in the management of construction, field engineering or design engineering for major infrastructure or aviation projects is an advantage).
Prior delivery partner or client‐side project management experience is preferred but not essential.
Prior airport experience is preferred but not essential.
Total Rewards / Benefits
Bechtel offers robust benefits to support employees—including career advancement, culture programs and time to recharge—to build a legacy of sustainable growth.
Seniority Level
Mid‐Senior level
Employment Type
Full‐time
Job Function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Construction
Equal Opportunity Employer
Bechtel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, disability, citizenship status (except as authorized by law), protected veteran status, genetic information, and any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Applicants with a disability, who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, may e‐mail their request to acesstmt@bechtel.com. #J-18808-Ljbffr
