Lead Piping Superintendent - FAB Utility Core

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Project Overview:

Bechtel’s Manufacturing and Technology (M&T) is an exciting and growing business unit that serves customers in the semiconductor, electric vehicle, and datacenter markets. M&T strives to exceed our customer objectives through utilizing our agility, innovative technologies, and world class talent. M&T solves the industry's toughest challenges, building both our company and the world for the future.

Job Summary:

In this role, you will monitor and organize subcontractor planning, safety, quality, and technical activities on a complex project with multiple stakeholders’ involvement, through the coordination and instruction of subcontractor’s management staff. Your field supervision will help ensure operations are planned to coincide with overall established schedules and that work methods are planned and executed safely. You will also direct and organize direct hire work including planning, safety, quality and technical activities on a complex project. Your field supervision will ensure direct hire work is planned to coincide with the overall schedule, work methods are executed safely with quality and the work is within budget. #LI-SM2 

Major Responsibilities:

• Monitors and organizes subcontractor activities, through coordination and instruction of subcontractor’s management staff within the area of responsibility.   
• Role supports on mid-size projects  of medium to high complexity with multiple stakeholders’ involvement. 

Planning 

• Monitors subcontractor construction schedules, resource charts, and material and equipment requirements. 
• Reviews subcontractor construction methods, schedules, manning charts, and material and equipment requirements.  
• Coordinates the construction operations impact on external interfaces to ensure they coincide with the overall established schedules.
• Supervise and ensure direct hire work is planned to coincide with the overall schedule and budget. 

Safety / Quality 

• Monitors installation of materials and equipment to assure conformance with drawings, specifications, vendor, and other requirements  
• Enforces policies, procedures and related work rules as established by field construction management.  
• Supervise and ensure direct hire work is executed safely with quality.

Technical  

• Supports Construction Field Engineers, Foremen, and Craft Professionals, in interpreting Engineering design documents, vendor documents, and other technical documents 
• Coordinates engineering solutions with Subcontractors, and Foremen and Craft Professionals. 
• Coordinates with Design on constructability issues.   

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 10-13  years of relevant experience or 14-17 years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in semiconductor, EV battery, data centers, or Pharmaceuticals preferred.
• Hands-on implementation of AWP and OSM strategies; experience with project setup, system turnover, and completion preferred.
• Proficiency with digital execution tools, 4D/5D planning, and analytics preferred.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Owns safe, high-quality piping execution—expert knowledge of piping installation, welding, NDE, hydrotesting, flushing, reinstatement, and turnover, with strict adherence to specs and codes.
• Drives piping work using AWP—plans by system and test boundary, manages constraints, sequences supports → install → weld → test → reinstate, and protects system completions.
• Leads piping craft and subcontractors—sets production targets, enforces standards, resolves field issues quickly, and develops foremen and general foremen.
• Controls productivity and rework—understands weld rates, spool readiness, material flow, and fit-up quality; attacks bottlenecks before they hit schedule or cost.
• Integrates across disciplines—coordinates with structural, mechanical, electrical, and commissioning to avoid clashes, enable access, and support clean turnover.

Total Rewards/Benefits:

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