Hydropower Project Engineering Manager

1 month ago

Brisbane, Australia Bechtel Full time

 

Requisition ID: 275279 

  • Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project 
  • Work Location: Brisbane, QLD 

 

Bechtel Infrastructure is seeking an experienced Hydropower Engineering Manager to lead the technical development of proposals, project development, and EPC project delivery.   This is a Brisbane based role.  

 

What We Offer:

There are many reasons why choosing to join Bechtel is one of the best career decisions you will ever make. In addition to working with talented, dedicated people and having the opportunity to play an integral role in stimulating and challenging local and international projects, Bechtel is committed to offering you the benefits and resources to live a healthy life.

With a market aligned salary package and annual discretionary performance bonus scheme in place, employee wellbeing is also at the centre of our business - promoted through our strong health and safety focus and private health cover including access to a leading employee assistance program.

 

About the Role:

This role is to join Bechtel's growing Infrastructure Project Development Team, providing engineering management services to support development and delivery of a portfolio of Heavy Civil projects in Australia, with a focus on dams and pumped hydropower energy storage.  

 

The Hydropower Engineering Manager will participate in all stages of the project lifecycle, including conceptual design, early contractor involvement (ECI), FEED, detailed design and project execution, and contribute to technical feasibility studies, value engineering, cost development and strategic planning for the project.

 

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Coordinates technical scope with Construction and Procurement Functions.
  • Provides support to Business Development, securing new work and external engagement.
  • Manages multi-discipline team executing conceptual design, FEED and project execution.
  • Prepares scope of work, coordinates bids and selection, and manages the delivery of engineering scope by design consultants.
  • Manages technical discussions with third parties (consultants, regulators, original equipment manufacturers) to facilitate appropriate technical solutions and decisions.
  • Provides leadership and inspires performance of the project team.
  • Other duties as designated.

 

What You Bring:

  • Degree in Geotechnical, Civil, Hydraulic, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with Professional Engineering License (RPEQ)
  • Experience of design development, feasibility studies, detailed design, and in managing design consultants, including scoping, technical specifications, tender evaluations, design review, and construction supervision.
  • Demonstrable professional experience in the hydropower and pumped storage industry, ideally with an international developer, consultant or contractor.
  • Demonstrable engineering skills and experience including civil structures, dams, tunnels, generation plant and powerhouse complexes.
  • Specific areas of technical expertise would be viewed positively:
  • Large hydropower or pumped storage design and construction.
  • Experience of dams and large hydraulic structures.
  • Knowledge of geology and geotechnics.
  • Tunnelling and underground works experience.
  • Experience with design and integration of M&E equipment.
  • Experience with layout and construction planning of major hydropower or pumped storage projects.
  • Management of multidisciplinary teams, including engineering, procurement, construction.

Working Rights in Australia without employer sponsorship are required.

We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer & commit to respond to every applicant.

 

Why Choose Bechtel?

Just as we are committed to helping our customers achieve their visions, we are committed to offering the best people in the industry—people like you—with rewarding, challenging, and flexible long-term careers.

Outstanding professionals are needed on projects that create jobs and grow economies; improve the resiliency of the world's infrastructure; connect communities to resources and opportunities; get us closer to net zero; tackle critical environmental challenges to protect people and the planet; and accelerate progress to make the world a cleaner, greener, safer place.

 

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Shaping tomorrow together

 

Bechtel is one of the most respected global engineering, construction, and project management companies. Together with our customers, we deliver landmark projects that foster long-term progress and economic growth. Since 1898, we’ve completed more than 25,000 extraordinary projects across 160 countries on all seven continents. We operate through four global businesses: Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; and Mining & Metals. Our company and our culture are built on more than a century of leadership and a relentless adherence to our values, the core of which are safety, quality, ethics, and integrity. These values are what we believe, what we expect, what we deliver, and what we live.  
 

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Bechtel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, disability, citizenship status (except as authorized by law), protected veteran status, genetic information, and any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

 

In accordance with Bechtel's duty to provide and maintain a safe workplace for our employees and to safeguard the health of our families, customers, and visitors, we have adopted mandatory COVID-19 safety protocols for each work location, which may include a vaccination or testing requirement. Please speak with your Bechtel recruiter to determine which protocols apply to the work location for the job you are seeking.

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