Energy Transition Study Manager

**Requisition ID: 266546**
- ** Relocation Authorized: None**:

- ** Telework Type: Part-Time Telework**:

- ** Work Location: Brisbane, QLD**

**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, and Mining & Metals markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations. Core to Bechtel are 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.

A career with Bechtel provides opportunity to work on a variety of significant Energy Transition projects from feasibility and engineering studies through to FEED and EPCs from our office in Brisbane.

**Position Summary**:
The Study Manager will lead multi-disciplinary teams, across one or more preliminary front end engineering or feasibility studies globally, with clients ranging from major energy companies to specialist project developers. In most cases, this role will provide the main interface with the client’s project team, and will work collaboratively to achieve desired outcomes, build strong relationships and cultivate new opportunities.

**About the role**:
Lead/manage successful multi-disciplinary teams, collaborating with Business Development, Legal and Functions (Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Quality, Risk and ES&H) to:

- Deliver preliminary engineering or feasibility studies for existing customers;
- Lead proposal teams, to win new studies/projects.

**Specific responsibilities and/or activities are, but not limited to**:

- Leading multi-discipline teams delivering conceptual, feasibility, and front end engineering studies and projects (hydrogen, ammonia, methanol, and/or SAF, and/or e-Fuels). Scope of work, includes:

- _Kick-off meeting and liaison with client._
- _Ensure studies are scoped correctly and managed to agreed timelines._
- _Technology interaction with licensors and definition of offsites & utilities._
- _Preparation/oversight of study process deliverables._
- _Coordination of other front-end engineering deliverables: plot plans/preliminary 3D models; equipment data sheets; online diagrams; controls strategy/specifications; etc._
- _Coordination of Constructability, Schedule and Cost Estimation elements._
- _Oversight of final report; facilitate Management Review; and deliver to client._
- Facilitate pull-through of opportunities to support Bechtel FEED / EPC activities.
- Lead specific project/study proposal teams, in interface with Business Development, Proposals, Subject Matter Experts, Commercial, & Functions in response to customer RFPs and/or Early Engagements to develop winning technical and commercial proposals/bids.
- _Define resourcing needs/solutions/strengths to meet Scope of Work requested_
- _Produce study budgets and schedules to suit specific client requirements._
- Travel up to 1 week/month ; potential for longer term relocation to project/client sites.

**What you bring**:

- Engineering Degree from an accredited university (process or chemical related preferred)
- Strong knowledge and experience in study/project engineering processes and procedures, including trade-off studies, value improvement practices, risk analysis, estimate and schedule development.
- Solid planning and problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge and experience with electrolysis and/or syngas production (biomass gasification, waste to energy gasification, Auto-thermal Reforming) and/or Fischer-Tropsch conversion / product upgrading, and/or ammonia synthesis

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Experience in hydrogen, ammonia and/or methanol, and/or SAF or E-Fuels feasibility and preliminary engineering studies
- Project Engineering experience in Australia on oil and gas and/or mineral processing and/or energy transition and/or other process/chemical related projects
- Supervises the engineering, procurement and projects controls activity on a small size project or designated portions of a medium or complicated project.
- May exercise operational supervision over all assigned disciplines.
- As directed, manages the complex organizational interactions that evolve from the participation of several Bechtel entities on the project or from client-established relationships with other contractors.
- Establishes and maintains access to technical experts in the technologies