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Company : Black & Veatch Corporation
Req Id : 116244
Opportunity Type : Staff
Relocation eligible : No
Full time/Part time : Full-Time
Project Only Hire : Yes
Visa Sponsorship Available: No
Why Black & Veatch?
Join the Overland Contracting (a Black & Veatch company) construction team and build with pride. As a 100% employee-owned company, every role matters - you own your work, your impact, and your future. We lead with care, and safety is non-negotiable and embedded into every role, site and decision, ensuring our teams return home safe, every day.
From field engineering to project management to quality and startup, you'll work with cutting-edge technology, learn from seasoned experts, and grow through real-world, hands-on experience. With a strong backlog across power, water, grid, and industrial markets, you'll have the stability to grow and the opportunity to shape what comes next.
Job Summary
Join our construction team as a Mechanical Field Engineer supporting a combined cycle power project. In this role, you will help keep field activities moving in alignment with project contract specifications and technical requirements. You will serve as a key connection between engineering, construction leadership, subcontractors, vendors, and client representatives, helping resolve technical questions, support field execution, and ensure work is completed to quality standards noted in specifications, contracts, and drawings.
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Key Responsibilities
In this position, you will support mechanical piping and equipment installation activities for gas-fired power generation projects at the combined cycle facilities. You will work closely with home office engineering, vendor technical advisors, OEM representatives, subcontractors, and client teams to help ensure equipment deliveries, technical support, and field activities are aligned with the specifications and drawings.
You will provide technical guidance by interpreting design drawings, specifications, and project requirements, while helping subcontractors understand the overall design intent. You will monitor assigned subcontractors for compliance with technical requirements and support timely resolution of field questions to reduce delays and keep construction progressing.
Additional responsibilities include coordinating with the Field Subcontract Manager, preparing daily site reports, completing quantity take-offs to support planning and invoice review, maintaining conformed-to-construction drawing markups and project records, and responding to Contractor Information Requests and Requests for Information.
Preferred Qualifications
2 to 6 years of construction management, field engineering, or design experience on power generation, simple cycle, combined cycle, or similar facility construction projects.
Required Skills: Strong communication and organizational skills; basic proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook; ability to interpret mechanical engineering drawings, specifications, and related construction documents; ability to work effectively with field teams, subcontractors, vendors, and client representatives in a fast-paced construction environment.
Preferred Skills: Experience with gas turbine, HRSG, steam turbine, balance-of-plant, mechanical piping, or equipment installation on simple cycle or combined cycle projects; knowledge of cost control and scheduling; ability to complete material take-offs and field estimates; mechanical system design experience; supervisory or lead experience; and contract administration experience.
Minimum Qualifications
6+ years construction management experience in similar facility construction. PE required or degree + 4 years design experience and 6+ years construction experience.; Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering from either an ABET accredited program. All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.
Work Environment/Physical Demands
Physical Demands:
Lift and carry heavy items weighing up to 50 pounds.
Stand, Kneel, Bend, Stoop, Move, and Walk long distances in and around confined, cluttered places, and uneven areas.
See and hear naturally or with correction.
Full range of motion and flexibility consistent with requirements of the job duties.
Requires using hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls according to a set procedure.
Requires repetitive movement.
May require work above 5 feet in height.
Climb and maintain balance on steel framework, stairs, ladders and scaffolds.
Work up to a 12 hour shift doing hard physical labor in varying temperature extremes and other outside conditions.
Work Environment:
Typical construction site environment:
Requires working in cramped work spaces and getting into awkward positions.
Requires working in very hot (above 90 F degrees) or very cold (below 32F degrees) temperatures and exposure to inclement weather such as dust, wind, snow, rain, etc.
Requires working in extremely bright or low lighting conditions
Includes exposure to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable.
Work around hazardous equipment.
Typical office environment.
This position is considered a safety sensitive position.
Competencies
Collaborates
Communicates effectively
Courage
Directs work
Instills trust
Interpersonal savvy
Organizational savvy
Salary Plan
CNS: Construction Services
Job Grade
017
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Black & Veatch is committed to being an employer of choice by creating a valuable work experience that keeps our people engaged, productive, safe and healthy.
Our comprehensive benefits portfolio is a key component of this commitment and offers an array of health care benefits including but not limited to medical, dental and vision insurances along with disability and a robust wellness program.
To support a healthy work-life balance, we offer flexible work schedules, paid vacation and holiday time, sick time, and dependent sick time.
A variety of additional benefits are available to our professionals, including a company-matched 401k plan, adoption reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, vendor discounts, an employment referral program, AD&D insurance, pre-taxed accounts, voluntary legal plan and the B&V Credit Union. Professionals may also be eligible for a performance-based bonus program.
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- Dice Id: 90962963
- Position Id: 61c901e570cc0eac205efc7c153d7ebf
- Posted 30+ days ago
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