Senior Construction Electrical Ops Engineer

Improvado; Santa Fe Capital; On-site; ARS 139,086,000 - 231,811,000; Full time

Job summary

Bechtel Argentina is seeking a senior environmental permitting professional in San Juan, Argentina. The role focuses on obtaining, maintaining, and monitoring environmental and sectoral permits to enable project execution, ensuring compliance with national and provincial regulations as well as client environmental standards.

You will translate legal requirements into verifiable design criteria and maintain a critical permit route aligned with the project schedule.

Qualifications

• Electrical engineer degree and ten (10) years of work-related experience in substation and Line construction.
• Proven High Voltage experience in at least 2 mining projects.
• Job related technical knowledge necessary to complete the job.
• Ability to learn and apply knowledge of applicable local, state/province, and federal/national statutes and guidelines.
• Ability to attend to detail and work in a time-conscious and time-effective manner.

Responsibilities

• Manage the obtaining, maintenance and monitoring of environmental and sectoral permits that enable the execution of the project in Argentina, ensuring that the engineering design, constructive planning and field activities comply with the applicable national and provincial regulations, with the commitments assumed before the authority and with the environmental standards of the client.
• The position acts as a bridge between engineering and the regulatory authority: it translates the legal requirements into verifiable design criteria, anticipates the environmental restrictions that condition the layout and the construction sequence, and maintains a critical permit route aligned with the project schedule
• Collaborate with design engineers, construction managers, and project management to ensure timely flow of documents and information to support permit compliance

Skills

Electrical engineering

High Voltage experience

Regulatory compliance

Detail oriented

Bilingual English/Spanish

Education

Electrical engineering degree

Construction Management degree

Tools

Word processing

Email

Spreadsheets

Presentations

Job description

Bechtel Argentina is seeking a senior environmental permitting professional in San Juan, Argentina. The role focuses on obtaining, maintaining, and monitoring environmental and sectoral permits to enable project execution, ensuring compliance with national and provincial regulations as well as client environmental standards.

You will translate legal requirements into verifiable design criteria and maintain a critical permit route aligned with the project schedule.