Automation Engineer (Data Analytics)

Requisition ID:  275970

• Relocation Authorized:  National - Family
• Telework Type: Part-Time Telework 
• Work Location: Richland, WA 
• Salary Range: $105,060 - $160,220 annually (Determined by function, education, experience, and qualifications of the applicant).

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 a global engineering, construction and project management company that has “built the world” for more than 120 years, having constructed Hoover Dam, the English Channel Tunnel, entire cities in the Middle East, the second-largest solar thermal power project in the world, and millions of miles of roads and pipelines. We produce a lasting, positive legacy by creating jobs, growing economies, connecting communities to resources, shoring up and expanding infrastructure, and making the world a cleaner, greener, safer place. 

 

Join us as we make history at the Hanford Vit Plant, known as the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant. We are designing and building a one-of-a-kind facility that will turn radioactive and chemical waste left over from World War II and Cold War plutonium production into a form safe for disposal. Your efforts will help protect the nearby Columbia River and the communities, salmon, and wildlife along its shorelines throughout the Northwest. 

 

Sitting at the confluence of the Columbia, Snake and Yakima rivers near two mountain ranges, our community provides access to year-round outdoor recreation, 300 days of sun a year, more than 200 wineries within a 50-mile radius, and the amenities of large cities just a three-hour drive (or short flight) to Seattle and Portland.

 

This position is a full-time role that offers part-time telework flexibility in the Richland, Washington project office. Upon initial hire and onboarding, the position will require full time presence in the Richland, Washington project office, then may offer part-time telework flexibility. This position works a 9/80 schedule, offering every other Friday off. 

 

Please be advised that the telework designation of the position may be changed in the future at the discretion of the company or project.

 

Position Summary

The Automation (Data Analytics) Engineer (DAE) reports to the WTP HLW Testing Manager (PSUM) or Test Lead Engineer (TLE). The WTP (HLW) DAE may have indirect reports, who will take day to day direction for work assignments from the DAE, but report functionally to the WTP PSUM. The WTP DAE is responsible for data automation and analytics processes related to the Testing Org (previously startup and commissioning) at the project and corporate level.

 

Responsibilities

• Supervises assigned junior test engineers in their day-to-day work activities.
• Improve various commissioning data handling processes and computer software systems by automating specific parts to work independently and automatically.
• Revise existing data handling technology so it requires less human interaction.
• Modify or create reports with trending graphics that are portable to other projects or across the company overall.
• Monitor the performance of the implemented changes for data reporting accuracy and repeatability.
• Coordinates with project controls team to provide and align progress reports with project milestones.
• Develops in excel or other corporate software tool an engineering system turnover and handover skyline template.
• Develops or enhance current data processing and analytics (databroker) tools like Oracle (Aconex), Intergraph (smart Plant), Inspec, to produce accurate equipment list with attributes assigned automatically based on plant 3D type models.
• Uses Power BI to collect and organize data in condensed presentations or prepopulates data in test or work control forms.