Field Engineering Manager - Combined Cycle - Oklahoma

Job Summary

In this role, you will help keep construction activities on track by providing subcontractors and craft personnel with the guidance, technical direction, and contract information needed to execute work safely, efficiently, and on schedule. You will collaborate closely with the discipline engineer and superintendent to interpret technical requirements of the combined cycle construction project, resolve field issues, and support work across disciplines. You will also manage assigned subcontract administration responsibilities, address commercial matters, and, on smaller or less complex projects, may support project controls functions while maintaining full EPC responsibility.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and interpretation of design drawings, specifications, and overall combined cycle design requirements to subcontractors.
• Support field execution by reviewing requests, maintaining records, and helping resolve design-related questions.
• Administer assigned subcontractors to ensure compliance with contract documents, monitor construction activities against the project schedule, and prepare and issue extra work authorization requests as needed.
• May also sign off on field designs or redesigns performed in the field.
• Partner with the field administrator, as needed, to support smooth site operations. Maintain daily logs for site records and perform or direct quantity takeoffs to support construction planning and invoice approval.
• Review subcontractor progress payment requests, monitor technical service representative and supplier logs, and approve submitted timesheets.
• Compile and maintain construction records and list markups, and help establish site document control activities for design documents when needed.
• Help ensure field teams are working from the latest IFC revisions and intermediate updates.
• Support inspections and test verification activities, and provide supervision, training, development, and performance management for direct reports.
• Champion safety and quality standards in all aspects of the work while contributing to continuous improvement efforts and change management initiatives.
• Lead and support field discipline engineers, fostering strong performance, development, and collaboration across the team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in combined cycle construction
• Knowledge of cost control, scheduling, engineering drawings, and related project documentation
• Ability to set up and perform project controls functions on smaller, less complex projects
• Experience completing material takeoffs and field estimates; strong communication, organizational, and supervisory skills
• Knowledge of safety regulations; discipline engineering experience; contract administration experience; and an understanding of craft dynamics.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering from either an ABET accredited program in the USA or an engineering program, offered by a foreign institution, accepted as valid in the home country or the country in which the individual is practicing.
• 6+ yrs construction experience.

Work Environment/Physical Demands

• Physical Demands:
• Lift and carry heavy items weighing up to 50 pounds.
• Stand, Kneel, Bend, Stoop, Move, and Walk long distances in and around confined, cluttered places, and uneven areas.
• See and hear naturally or with correction.
• Full range of motion and flexibility consistent with requirements of the job duties.
• Requires using hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls according to a set procedure.
• Requires repetitive movement.
• May require work above 5 feet in height.
• Climb and maintain balance on steel framework, stairs, ladders and scaffolds.
• Work up to a 12 hour shift doing hard physical labor in varying temperature extremes and other outside conditions.
• Includes exposure to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable.
• Work around hazardous equipment.

Competencies

• Salary Plan
• Job Grade

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits portfolio including medical, dental, vision insurances, disability, and a robust wellness program.
• Flexible work schedules, paid vacation and holiday time, sick time, and dependent sick time.
• Vendor discounts, an employment referral program, AD&D insurance, pre-taxed accounts, and a company-matched 401k plan.
• Voluntary legal plan and the B&V Credit Union.
• Performance-based bonus program.

About Us

Together, we own our company, our future, and our shared success. As an employee-owned company, our people are Black & Veatch. We put them at the center of everything we do and empower them to grow, explore new possibilities and use their diverse talents and perspectives to solve humanity's biggest challenges in an ever-evolving world. With over 100 years of innovation in sustainable infrastructure and our expertise in engineering, procurement, consulting and construction, together we are building a world of difference.