Lead Process Engineer

Requisition ID: 300186 | Relocation Authorized: National - Family | Telework Type: Part-Time Telework | Work Location: Houston, TX

About the role

Since 1898, Bechtel has helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents, creating jobs, growing economies, improving infrastructure resiliency, increasing access to energy and vital services, and making the world a safer, cleaner place. We serve the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; Mining & Metals; and Manufacturing and Technology markets, with services spanning from initial planning and investment through start-up and operations.

Bechtel Manufacturing and Technology (M&T) is a growing business serving increasing demand for EPC services in semiconductor manufacturing facilities and supply chain, electric vehicle (batteries, charging infrastructure, and production), synthetic materials, and data center markets. M&T strives to exceed customer objectives through agility, innovative technologies, and world-class talent. Headquartered in the U.S. with employees in various states, M&T also has colleagues in the United Kingdom, India, and other locations while pursuing opportunities worldwide.

Bechtel is seeking a Lead Process Engineer to join the Process Engineering department within the Manufacturing and Technology Business Unit (M&T). Assigned to data center projects to lead utility system design from conceptual design through EPC execution. Plans and conducts independent work requiring judgment in the evaluation, selection, application, and adaptation of designs for critical facility systems, including cooling water, water treatment, fuel systems, compressed air, drainage, and other mechanical and process utilities. Applies relevant data center industry standards and codes, accepted design practices, client requirements, and quality standards for a global business unit.

Responsibilities

• Leads and mentors process engineers and designers, fostering communication, trust, teamwork, innovation, and accountability while delivering data center utilities within scope, budget, schedule, quality, and safety requirements.
• Applies engineering principles and data center practices to cooling, water, fuel, compressed air, drainage, and related utilities.
• Makes independent decisions on utility capacity, redundancy, reliability, operability, maintainability, energy efficiency, and constructability.
• Coordinates clients, vendors, field teams, operations, authorities, and engineering disciplines to integrate systems, resolve interfaces, and communicate requirements and decisions.
• Represents process engineering in meetings, presenting system design, capacity, reliability, status, risks, schedule, and operating philosophy.
• Defines scope, work plans, system boundaries, design criteria, capacity, redundancy philosophy, and battery limits across planning, design, procurement, construction, startup, and commissioning.
• Prepares and reviews utility diagrams, P&IDs, calculations, balances, specifications, data sheets, narratives, reports, and technical proposals using approved criteria and standards.
• Manages scope changes and multidisciplinary workload, assessing impacts on demand, capacity, redundancy, layout, cost, schedule, and phased deployment.
• Ensures consistent deliverables comply with codes, client criteria, project specifications, and data center availability, reliability, and energy-efficiency objectives.
• Identifies risks, constraints, complexity, and value opportunities; leads technical discussions and develops practical solutions supporting timely, defensible decisions and mission-critical delivery.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 8–10 years of relevant experience, or 12–14 years of relevant work experience in the data center industry.

Skills

• Experience executing data center or mission-critical EPC utility engineering, with strong knowledge of engineering principles, data center design practices, client criteria, applicable regulations, ASME, NFPA, building and fire codes, and local authority requirements.
• Knowledge of fluid flow, heat transfer, thermodynamics, and water chemistry, with experience developing utility demand, capacity, energy and water balances, load profiles, and design calculations.
• Experience developing and reviewing utility flow diagrams, process schematics, operating narratives, P&IDs, interface and battery-limit documents, and equipment, line, valve, instrument, utility connection, and specialty-item lists.
• Experience sizing and specifying pumps, heat exchangers, water treatment, storage tanks, fuel systems, packaged equipment, and control valves; performing hydraulic and line-sizing calculations; and establishing equipment and piping design pressures and temperatures for all operating cases.
• Experience participating in 3D model, design, safety, constructability, operability, commissioning, and reliability reviews; closing actions; and coordinating mechanical, electrical, controls, civil, structural, architectural, fire protection, construction, and commissioning disciplines.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and engineering software for hydraulic analysis, equipment sizing, documentation, and design coordination, plus knowledge of project execution, work processes, quality, change management, and document control.
• Strong written, oral, and presentation skills, with demonstrated frontline leadership, continuous improvement, team building, and management of competing priorities, phased releases, and fast-track schedules.
• Chartered Engineer or Professional Engineer (PE) license, or willingness to obtain registration.
• Experience supervising process or utility engineering teams within a large EPC organization, with knowledge of Bechtel procedures and data center delivery practices.
• Experience planning and executing medium or large, fast-track, multidisciplinary greenfield or brownfield data center EPC projects, including hyperscale, colocation, or other mission-critical facilities.

Benefits

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