Lead Piping Engineer Jobs in Ohio (NOW HIRING)

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Bechtel is building a semiconductor manufacturing plant in New Albany, Ohio. We are partnering with the North America Building Trades Unions and suppliers to create several thousand new jobs and work with local education organizations to implement new training programs that will support the future talent pipeline. Bechtel Manufacturing & Technology, Inc. offers engineering, procurement, and construction services for customers in the semiconductor manufacturing, electric vehicle, and data center markets. 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.

In this role, you will lead a team and supervise superintendents and/or craft professionals on a project. You will direct craft professional activities and work schedules, and coordinate subcontract work activities and team development. Your oversight will ensure craft professionals have the tools required to be productive, comply with project policies, procedures, and job site work rules and procedures, and perform within specifications, schedules and budgets. #LI-CL1 

• 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.  

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.   
• 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.   

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 10-13  years of relevant experience or 14-17 years of relevant work experience in lieu of a degree
• 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.

• 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.

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