Support Buildings Field Engineer

Bechtel Corporation•Houston, TX

11d•Onsite

About The Position

The Support Buildings Field Engineer is a lead field engineering role for Bechtel’s Manufacturing & Technology Business Unit project to design and build an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) manufacturing facility in Generation Park, Houston, Texas. The role leads and coordinates multi-discipline field engineering for assigned support buildings and related facilities executed by general contractors. It provides area-level technical leadership across Civil, Structural, Architectural, Mechanical, Piping, and Electrical scopes, and directs assigned Field Engineers. The position supports construction planning, work packaging, material readiness, quantity control, quality verification, subcontract coordination, technical issue resolution, system turnover, and closeout. It works with Design Engineering, Procurement, Quality, Project Controls, Commissioning, Startup, subcontractors, and client representatives to ensure work is planned, integrated, documented, and executed safely and in accordance with project requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or international equivalent and 8–10 years of relevant experience, or 12–14 years of relevant work experience.
Broad knowledge of multi-discipline construction and field engineering for support buildings, including Civil, Structural, Architectural, Mechanical, Piping, and Electrical systems, installation sequencing, interfaces, inspection, testing, completion, and turnover requirements.
Demonstrated ability to lead contractor and subcontractor coordination, establish priorities, coordinate workloads and resources, review technical deliverables, provide performance feedback, and maintain consistent field engineering processes across disciplines.
Advanced knowledge of work planning and packaging, Advanced Work Packaging principles, workface readiness, material management, quantity control, progress reporting, forecasting, project-controls interfaces, construction automation, and turnover documentation.
Ability to read, interpret, and apply multi-discipline drawings, specifications, models, vendor information, subcontract documents, inspection and test plans, codes and standards, RFIs, field changes, NCR dispositions, and as-built requirements.
Experience coordinating design, construction, procurement, quality, commissioning, startup, contractors and subcontractors, and client interfaces to resolve issues.
Strong leadership, communication, organization, technical judgment, facilitation, and decision-making skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities, resolve cross-discipline conflicts, and support safe, quality- and schedule-driven execution.

Responsibilities

Lead and coordinate multi-discipline field engineering activities for assigned support buildings; set priorities, distribute assignments, review deliverables, and provide technical direction and feedback to General Contractor representatives.
Develop and maintain integrated field engineering execution plans, Installation Work Packages, short-interval plans, workface-readiness reviews, construction sequencing, area interfaces, and constraint-removal across CSA, Mechanical, Piping, and Electrical scopes.
Coordinate communication among Construction, Design Engineering, Procurement, Quality, Project Controls, Commissioning, Startup, subcontractors, General Contractor, and Client representatives to align deliverables, materials, inspections, testing, turnover priorities, and field execution needs.
Review drawings, specifications, models, vendor data, contractor and subcontractor submittals, RFIs, field changes, design deliverables, installation details, and as-built requirements; coordinate resolution of technical, constructability, and interface issues.
Lead material and equipment readiness, including quantity takeoffs, field material requisitions, receiving, inspection, storage, preservation, warehousing, substitutions, release, and verification of availability.
Manage installed-quantity verification, progress measurement, forecasting, productivity analysis, construction engineering records, and field data supporting schedule, cost, and remaining-work strategies.
Coordinate contractor and subcontractor technical oversight, including scope interfaces, submittals, inspection and test plans, progress reporting, invoices, change documentation, quality records, field support, completion requirements, and schedule integration.
Lead inspection and test planning, quality verification, nonconformance resolution, corrective-action follow-up, punch-list closure, turnover package completion, system walkdowns, and transfer of completed systems to Commissioning, Startup, Operations, or the Client.
Monitor field execution to ensure approved documents, procedures, permits, quality records, and work packages are used; identify risks, resolve or escalate systemic issues, and implement corrective actions to prevent rework and schedule impacts.
Promote Bechtel’s Zero Accident Philosophy and ensure field engineering activities support safe execution, environmental compliance, quality, cost, schedule, housekeeping, and project closeout requirements.