Engineering Automation Manager

Requisition ID:299103

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  Location:
  Houston, TX

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Project Overview:

Bechtel's Manufacturing & Technology (M&T) Business Unit is designing and building an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) Manufacturing Facility located at Generation Park in Houston, TX. M&T is an exciting and growing business unit that serves customers in the semiconductor, datacenter, life sciences, and electric vehicle 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. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, the M&T global business unit also includes colleagues working in Arizona, Ohio, Texas, India, and additional project locations around the world.

Job Summary:

The Engineering Automation Manager is a key leader in Bechtel's data-centric delivery model and is responsible for the planning, deployment, and performance of the engineering application suite and engineering data Bechtle Projects. The role ensures that engineering tools, models, and data structures deliver the information required downstream for Procurement, Construction, and Startup teams. Assigned to the PIIM organization and reporting to the PIIM Manager, the Engineering Automation Manager leads the engineering automation team, including discipline automation leads, 3D/BIM model administrators, and engineering application specialists. The role is accountable for the configuration, integration, and adoption of Bechtel's standard engineering applications, ensuring each tool is implemented to standard, certified in the Bechtel network environment, and connected to the project's Common Data Environment (CDE). The Engineering Automation Manager works with Engineering management, discipline leads, 3rd-party engineering consultants, and Owner stakeholders to ensure engineering data, model, and deliverable requirements are defined, met, and properly integrated. The Manager establishes and maintains the engineering data structure, model standards, and reporting that support design quality, schedule certainty, and a clean handover of asset information. The position provides engineering-led integration across 3D Model Development, BIM coordination and clash management, 4D Integrated Schedule, 5D Integrated Cost, engineering document management, IS&T, and the use of automation and AI to improve engineering productivity on the project. #LI-NP1

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Responsibilities:

Engineering Application Suite Deployment & Integration

• Lead the deployment and administration of Bechtel's engineering application suite, including 3D/BIM model authoring and review tools (e.g., Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD, Navisworks; Bentley MicroStation), engineering data and document tools, and integration with Aconex, material management applications, Power Platform solutions, and Bechtel Data Mesh services, in alignment with the Project Automation Plan.
• Drive integration so engineering data flows seamlessly to downstream functions (3D model material take-off procurement schedule construction work packages), reflecting the project's Level 1 Automation Diagram and AI-enablement opportunities.

Engineering Automation Team Leadership

• Manage, supervise, and develop the engineering automation team, including staffing plans, work assignments, performance feedback, and succession for discipline automation leads and model administrators.
• Provide direction to discipline automation leads to deliver the best outcomes for design production, model maturity, and advanced work packaging (EWPs and IWPs).
• Coordinate closely with Engineering management and BIM Lead(s) at 3rd-party engineeri