Hexagon SmartPlant Foundation (SPF) and SDx Administrator

Location: Overland Park, KS; Orlando, FL; Bloomington, MN; Tualatin, OR; Phoenix, AZ; Ann Arbor, MI; Greenwood Village, CO; Houston, TX; Cary, NC; Chattanooga, TN; Dallas, TX

About the role

At Black & Veatch, you’ll be part of work that matters—designing, creating, and building the infrastructure communities rely on every day, from concept through execution. We care about how the work gets done as much as what we build. Safety is built into every decision, and people look out for each other—speaking up, collaborating, and doing the right thing because it affects real lives. You’ll work alongside teams solving complex challenges and turning ideas into solutions that perform in the real world—gaining hands-on experience across projects, technologies, and disciplines.

As a 100% employee-owned company, employees share in the long-term success we build together. With flexible ways of working and meaningful development opportunities, you’ll build a career you can be proud to stand behind.

Responsibilities

• Set up, configure, and administer the SmartPlant Foundation (SPF) environment.
• Set up, configure, and administer the SDx environment.
• Configure plant structures, domains, security, workflows, vaults, documents, tags, and relationships.
• Administer Foundation clients, services, schema components, and application services.
• Maintain schemas, class definitions, properties, document types, naming rules, and status rules.
• Coordinate installations, upgrades, patches, refreshes, backups, and issue resolution.
• Configure integrations between SPF and Smart 3D, Smart P&ID, Smart Instrumentation, and Smart Electrical.
• Set up publish, retrieve, correlate, consolidate, and update workflows.
• Set up the Consolidated Data Warehouse (CDW) in SPF and configure precedence rules.
• Maintain tool registrations, plant registrations, design basis setup, and cross-application synchronization.
• Define schema mappings, attribute mappings, precedence rules, consolidation rules, and data ownership models.
• Troubleshoot publish/retrieve errors, schema conflicts, data conflicts, and integration failures.
• Develop custom configurations, utilities, reports, data loaders, validations, and automation using APIs, .NET, SQL, XML, schema tools, and import/export utilities.
• Architect custom integrations connecting disparate 3rd-party enterprise systems through REST, OData, and SOAP endpoints.
• Support data extraction, transformation, reporting, analytics, and enterprise system integration.
• Manage configuration changes, defects, development tasks, and release documentation.
• Enforce data ownership, object status, revision control, document status, and auditability.
• Support data validation, cleansing, duplication checks, and inconsistency resolution.
• Align integration rules with engineering workflows and deliverable requirements.
• Create administration guides, configuration records, troubleshooting guides, and end-user training material.
• Train administrators, project users, engineering disciplines, and support teams on enabling SmartPlant Foundation Integration workflows.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Engineering Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field; equivalent SmartPlant Foundation administration and integration experience may be considered.
• 7+ years of experience supporting Hexagon / Octave SmartPlant applications, with direct hands-on experience administering SmartPlant Foundation and SDx.
• Strong experience configuring SmartPlant Foundation for multi-application integration, including domains, schemas, relationships, plant structures, publish/retrieve workflows, tool registrations, mappings, security, and workflows.
• Experience integrating SmartPlant Foundation with Smart 3D, Smart P&ID, Smart Instrumentation, Smart Electrical, or related engineering applications.
• Working knowledge of SQL Server databases for troubleshooting, data extraction, reporting, validation, connectivity, backups, restores, and administration support.
• Development or scripting experience using .NET, SQL, XML, APIs, schema tools, import/export utilities, or comparable SmartPlant Foundation development methods.
• Experience with the development of responsive, modern web-client interfaces utilizing component-based architectures in React and Angular.
• Experience with scripting high-throughput Engineering Tag Attributes and automated ETL pipelines to execute mass data ingestion and document loading via SDx APIs.
• Experience supporting power generation or other highly regulated infrastructure projects.
• Prior Lead or Senior Administrator role supporting Hexagon SmartPlant platforms.
• Experience administering multi-disciplined environments is considered an asset.
• Relevant Octave / Hexagon SmartPlant Foundation, SDx, integration, engineering systems, or database certifications are preferred.
• Typically a minimum of 3+ years related work experience.
• All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.
• As this position supports the global nuclear program at Black & Veatch, any potential offer will be conditional on the individual being able to satisfy all requirements, including citizenship requirements, outlined in the Code of Federal Regulations 10 CFR 810.

Work Environment

Hybrid or flexible work options may be offered after the first 90 days of employment based upon manager discretion, job performance and work assignments.

Pay

• State of Colorado: $81,609 - $122,441
• State of Maryland: $89,028 - $133,572
• State of Minnesota: $77,900 - $116,876

Benefits

• Comprehensive health care benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurances.
• Disability and a robust wellness program.
• Flexible work schedules, paid vacation and holiday time, sick time, and dependent sick time.
• Company-matched 401k plan.
• Adoption reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, vendor discounts, an employment referral program, AD&D insurance, pre-taxed accounts, voluntary legal plan, and the B&V Credit Union.
• Performance-based bonus program eligibility.
• 100% ESOP-owned company, empowering employees to drive personal growth and share in the company's long-term success through stock ownership.