IS&T Site Lead Engineer

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Project Overview:

Bechtel is the licensing, engineering, procurement, and construction partner on TerraPower’s Natrium team. Selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program, Natrium is participating in a DOE initiative to re-establish U.S. leadership in nuclear energy that provides matching funding to industry to design and build an operational advanced reactor. TerraPower, a leading advanced generation technology company founded by former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, will be deploying its 345 MWe sodium fast reactor (SFR), called Natrium. The Natrium plant features an advanced, cost-competitive reactor design that is safer, simpler, easier, and less costly to construct, less expensive to operate, and able to provide energy that is competitive with fossil fuels. It also features an innovative molten salt energy storage system designed to be complementary to solar and wind power by evening out the peaks and valleys in production when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing. With the reactor and energy storage output combined, the plant can produce more than 500 MWe of power. 

Other Team Natrium partners include GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Energy Northwest, PacifiCorp, and Duke Energy, along with support from a number of national laboratories and universities. This DOE Program has the potential to be the largest funding program for advanced nuclear power in U.S. history and will shape the future of nuclear energy for decades. We invite you to join our team for this historic and interesting opportunity!

Job Summary:

The IS&T Site Lead Engineer oversees all IT operations and infrastructure supporting Bechtel’s role in the Natrium advanced reactor project, ensuring secure, reliable, and efficient technology services across project sites. This role defines and implements IT systems, manages service delivery, leads procurement and asset management, and supports project mobilization and user technical needs. The engineer develops automation workflows, governance metrics, and key IT management plans while ensuring compliance with corporate and project standards. This position is critical to enabling seamless execution of a large, multi‑partner EPC effort that will help shape the future of advanced nuclear energy. #LI-TN1 

Major Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all IT operations and services for the Bechtel team on the project
• Provide IT operational/technical support and manage IT requirements and deliverables to support execution of the project
• Define IT infrastructure, network, and communications requirements for site offices.
• Develop complex IT reports, dashboards, and automates workflows. 
• Coordinate IT plans with project team, contractors and client, and establish clear Divisions of Responsibility  
• Establish relationships with IT vendors  
• Support mobilization of project team – Asset management, imaging and provision of Bechtel computers, mobile phones and Microsoft 2FA. 
• Setup network printers and scanners.
• Help Bechtel users connect to the network, printers, file server, applications, Teams and SharePoint, and resolve any technical issues.    
• Develop metrics for IS&T performance and governance compliance.
• Manages automation, innovation and integration requirements with Bechtel, client and/or key stakeholders and disciplines.   
• Provide input to technical scopes of work for contractors.
• Recommend process improvement solutions.
• Follow GBU and corporate processes for deploying approved applications.
• Development of IT support guides and user training.
• Adhere to Corporate, Bechtel Business Line and Project IT procedures, standards, and security requirements.
• Develop and maintain the Project Automation Plan, Disaster Recovery Plan, Software Application Portfolio, and project IT handover and Closeout plan.
• Define and set Project IT goals, schedules and divisions of responsibility
• Maintain Project IT budget and associated forecasts
• Responsible for IT procurement and asset management 
• Respond to audits as required

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree (or international equivalent) and a minimum of 8-10 years of relevant experience or 12-14 years of relevant work experience in lieu of a degree.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Microsoft Fundamentals course(s) desirable
• Cisco CCNA desirable
• Microsoft MCSE desirable
• Experience on large scale EPC projects preferably in North America
• Excellent English oral and written communication skills and the ability to document technical processes required. 
• Must have a good understanding of the major IT infrastructure systems (Microsoft domains, Cloud VPN, Virtual Servers, Caching File Servers, SDWAN, Teams Voice) and how to plan their implementation  
• Ability to identify, track, escalate, and resolve problems using basic techniques and methods of troubleshooting end-user problems.
• Good SharePoint / Teams / Teams Voice / Office 365 skills 
• Power-Bi and Power-App skills desirable
• Experience writing IT scope of work documents for IT systems 
• Familiarity with various engineering, procurement and construction software is desirable 
• Knowledge of the software and integration architecture for document management, project controls, Autodesk suite, workflows and dashboards.
• Awareness of Netscope, Nasuni and Silverpeak routers for troubleshooting issues 
• Knowledge of Active directory, File and Print server, ServiceNow

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