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Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.
Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers' objectives to create a lasting positive impact. We serve the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; Mining & Metals, and the Manufacturing and Technology markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations.
Core to Bechtel is our Vision, Values and Commitments. They are what we believe, what customers can expect, and how we deliver.
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. A world that caters for growing populations and keeps up with rapid technological change; a world that is resilient to economic and geophysical setbacks; a world powered by cleaner energy and systems that accelerate the path to global decarbonization; a world connected by smart and affordable transport networks to empower disenfranchised communities and unlock access to opportunities.
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.
The hiring process for this position involves customer approval.
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.
- Implements 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 engages with teams’ development through competency development/assessment and feedback; reviews 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.
- Establishes a design/field engineering working relationship and lines of communication with project engineering including agreement on engineering deliverables.
- Monitors that contractor construction engineering activities are in compliance with procedures and the contract.
- Coordinates the interfacing between the construction automation plan and the project controls program.
- Supports the engineering team with review of contractor's design for constructability and compliance with the contract.
- Construction / Quality: Coordinates the review of contractor quantity take-offs, reporting and forecasting.
- Coordinates the reviews of contractor submittals, including daily reports of contractor progress and performance.
- Coordinates technical input and oversight for the reviews of contractor construction non-conformances.
- Identifies 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.
Bechtel has a long-standing commitment to diversity and inclusion. We are a global company with a vibrant mix of nationalities, cultures, and life experiences. We strive to create a work workplace where everyone belongs and is respected, rewarded for what they bring, and supported in pursuing their goals.
Notes
This description reflects Bechtel’s focus on shaping tomorrow, together, through safe, sustainable, and innovative infrastructure projects.
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📌 Field Engineering Manager
🏢 Bechtel
📍 Australia