Project Field Engineer

Requisition ID: 274020 

•  Relocation Authorized: National - Family 
• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project 
• Work Location: Reston, VA 

 

Company Overview
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 covenants – integrity, respect, collaboration, trust, and delivery. They are what we believe, what customers can expect, and how we deliver.

 

Project Overview

Bechtel is the licensing, engineering, procurement, and construction partner on TerraPower’s Natrium team. Selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program, Natrium is participating in a DOE initiative to re-establish U.S. leadership in nuclear energy that provides matching funding to industry to design and build an operational advanced reactor. TerraPower, a leading advanced generation technology company founded by former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, will be deploying its 345 MWe sodium fast reactor (SFR), called Natrium. The Natrium plant features an advanced, cost-competitive reactor design that is safer, simpler, easier, and less costly to construct, less expensive to operate, and able to provide energy that is competitive with fossil fuels. It also features an innovative molten salt energy storage system designed to be complementary to solar and wind power by evening out the peaks and valleys in production when the sun is not shining, or the wind is not blowing. With the reactor and energy storage output combined, the plant can produce more than 500 MWe of power. 

 

Other Team Natrium partners include GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Energy Northwest, PacifiCorp, and Duke Energy, along with support from a number of national laboratories and universities. This DOE Program has the potential to be the largest funding program for advanced nuclear power in U.S. history and will shape the future of nuclear energy for decades. 

 

We invite you to join our team for this historic and interesting opportunity! 

 

Position Summary

Assigned to the Construction organization as the Project Field Engineer (PFE). Responsible for the organization, process/procedures, and direction of Construction Field Engineering and support staff. The PFE reports directly to the Construction Site Manager and is responsible for all Field Engineering activities for the project. 

 

 Responsibilities

• Manages all field engineering processes and procedures to ensure project, code, and corporate compliance.
• Develops the Field Engineering organizational structure with input from the Construction Site Manager.
• Performs or delegates all personnel evaluations for field engineering and support staff.
• Ensures that field engineering and support staff are developing skill sets that align with Bechtel's and the individual's career goal.
• Ensures procedures align with Bechtel functional requirements and coordinates functional approvals.
• Generates site specific procedures as required to assure construction operations conform to engineering design and specifications and unique customer or regulatory requirements as applicable.
• Develops and is responsible for the Construction Work Package process to ensure timely deliverables (material, inspection records, packages, etc) to field personnel.
• Develops and implements the Advanced Work Packaging procees.
• Develops and is responsible for the Work Control program in coordination with document control.
• Responsible for the Subcontract Technical Representative program overseeing the technical aspects of all construction managed subcontracts.
• Coordinates with supervision to plan construction activities for immediate (4 week) and long range planning (90/180/270 day) activities.
• Responsible for the effective development and implementation of the Field Engineering inspection process.
• Establishes an Engineering/Field Engineering working relationship and lines of communications.
• Responsible for the constructability prog