Piping Field Engineer - Brownsville, United States - Bechtel Corporation

Description

**Requisition ID: 276222**

+ **Relocation Authorized: National - Single**

+ **Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project**

+ **Work Location: Brownsville, TX**

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 values ethics, safety, quality, people, culture, relationships, innovation and sustainability, and our commitments integrity, respect, collaboration, trust, and delivery. They are what we believe, what customers can expect, and how we deliver.

# Project Overview

Bechtel is partnering with NextDecade to support their vision to provide the world access to lower carbon intensive energy with their Rio Grande LNG (RGLNG) project in Brownsville, Texas.

RGLNG is a natural gas liquefaction and export terminal situated on a 984-acre site on the banks of the Brownsville ship channel. The first phase of the RGLNG project consists of three liquefaction trains, two storage tanks and one marine berth. At full capacity, the five-train facility will have a production capacity of 27 million tonnes per annum (MTPA).

# Project Location Overview

Brownsville, Texas is a city known for its diverse history, tradition, and rich culture. Located in the southernmost region in the beautiful state of Texas, lays Brownsville a rich, tropical oasis bordering the Rio Grande River and near the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. Brownsville embraces innovation, looks forward to the future and beyond

# Position Summary

Leads construction engineers in a broad range of construction engineering work within a specific engineering discipline for a particular area of the project. Provides engineering assistance to superintendents, directs assigned personnel in meeting cost and time schedules, verifies materials, equipment, and quality and assures results meet design requirements.

# Job Dimensions

**Supervision Received**

+ Receives technical and operational supervision from supervising construction engineer or assigned supervising discipline superintendent.

# Supervision Exercised

+ Provides technical and administrative direction to subordinate construction engineers and others, as assigned.

# Contacts

+ Jobsite contacts are with superintendents and subcontractors personnel associated with construction engineering.

+ Continuous interfacing with client personnel, pertaining to negotiations on subcontract changes.

+ Interface with the engineering design functional group to identify and resolve design- related issues as implemented in the field.

# Responsibilities

+ Responsible for the activities of assigned construction engineers, such as the application of drawings, specifications, and subcontracts.

+ Directs preparation of quantity listings of field purchased material and equipment. Initiates requisitions for field purchases.

+ Supervises preparation of construction drawings and schedules. Supervises design of temporary construction facilities and ensures preparation of as built drawings and other job plans.

+ Assists subordinate construction engineers and superintendents in:

+ Interpreting design drawings.

+ Monitoring equipment installation and planning for delivery of construction materials and equipment.

+ Assuring that proper warehousing and storage exists to ensure environmental protection.

+ Reviews specifications, purchase orders, subcontracts, inspection reports, delivery schedules, instruction manuals and technical data.

+ Administers assigned subcontracts to ensure contract remains up to date in areas such as drawings, specifications, cost and schedule.

+ Coordinates with the Field Construction Manager on activities affecting the contract administration operation.

+ Coordinates with engineering design on constructability issues.

+ Supervises subcontractor work efforts and administers routine subcontract changes and interfaces with client personnel. May represent the company in contractual discussions and negotiations.

+ Reviews and/or supervises, as assigned, the preparation of construction estimates, cost engineering studies, schedules and budgets.

+ Analyzes assigned construction activities to determine the scope, time and resource requirements.

+ Ensures that vendors bids for material and equipment are in conformance to specifications.

+ Coordinates the interfacing between the construction automation plan and the project controls program at the jobsite. Reviews project controls documents on progress relating to cost and schedule.

+ Performs personnel evaluation of assigned subordinate personnel and ensures they receive progressive training.

+ May direct minimal numbers of manual craft field forces during project closeout.

+ Works with various functions to ensure the project achieves corporate goals set for environmental, safety & health, quality, cost, and schedule.

# Qualifications and Skills

**Basic Qualifications**

+ A recognized degree in an engineering or scientific discipline, OR

+ Specialized courses in construction management, AND/OR

+ Work experience as a construction engineer, engineer or assistant superintendent leading to an understanding of the technical knowledge described.

# Additional Qualifications

+ Technical knowledge of a specialized engineering discipline, cost, scheduling and/or contracts administration relating to the construction of heavy industrial or commercial complexes.

+ Demonstrated leadership in a team-based environment.

+ Knowledge and understanding of the application and requirements of the Project Environmental, Safety & Health (ES&H) Handbook and the Bechtel Core Processes as they relate to area of responsibility.

+ Familiar with Bechtels Business Ethics handbook and policies.

+ Prior experience supervising and administering subcontractors.

+ Knowledge of Bechtels Zero Accidents safety program.

+ Computer literate in word processing, spreadsheet and database applications in accordance with current Bechtel Standard Application Program (BSAP) standards.

+ Knowledge of the use of subcontracts; knowledge of the contractor/ subcontractors responsibilities contained in subcontract documents. #LI-BH1

**_Shaping tomorrow together_**

**_Bechtel is one of the most respected global engineering, construction, and project management companies. Together with our customers, we deliver landmark projects that foster long-term progress and economic growth. Since 1898, weve completed more than 25,000 extraordinary projects across 160 countries on all seven continents. We operate through five global businesses: Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; Mining & Metals; and Manufacturing & Technology. Our company and our culture are built on more than a century of leadership and a relentless adherence to our values, the core of which are safety, quality, ethics, and integrity. These values are what we believe, what we expect, what we deliver, and what we live._**

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