Permit Designer

Bechtel Corporation; Santiago; On-site; CLP 25,000,000 - 40,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Bechtel in Santiago is seeking a Technical Drafting and Permitting specialist to prepare environmental permit documentation and site plans for mining and metals projects. You will coordinate with engineering, environmental teams and authorities to ensure submissions are complete and traceable.

Required are 3–5 years in engineering or construction with permit prep, fluency in Spanish and technical English reading skills, and strong CAD/GIS capabilities for accurate, standards-compliant drawings.

Qualifications

• Regulatory knowledge of Environmental Impact Assessment and permits.
• 3–5 years in engineering or construction with permit preparation.
• Mining or heavy industry project experience preferred.
• Spanish native with technical English reading proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and compile permit files and background documentation.
• Develop CAD site plans and ensure GIS layers meet standards.
• Ensure traceability and compatibility of documents across disciplines.

Skills

AutoCAD

Civil 3D

GIS tools

Excel

Document control

Education

Technical or professional degree in technical drawing or engineering

Tools

QGIS

ArcGIS

Documentation platforms

Job description

Requisition ID: 300144

• Relocation Authorized: None

• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project

• Work Location: Santiago

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Project Overview:

Mining and Metals:

Increasing production of critical minerals provides key components of clean energy technologies, from wind turbines to batteries. This shift to clean energy—and the need for commodities—is critical to underpinning the energy transition. At Bechtel, our teams extract these vital resources to support net zero in a way which is more sustainable than ever before.

Job Summary:

This role will be responsible for preparing, compiling, and maintaining the technical documentation and drawings supporting the acquisition of environmental and sector-specific permits for the project. The role aligns information generated by the engineering disciplines with the authorities’ formal requirements so that each application is submitted complete, traceable, and consistent with the current design. The position serves as a control point between the engineering team, the environmental team, and regulatory agencies. Performance is measured by the quality of permit application documentation, adherence to committed deadlines, and the absence of avoidable comments during the permitting process.

Major Responsibilities:

Preparation of permit files

• To prepare and combine the technical background required by each sectoral environmental permit, verifying that the information comes from the current revision of the engineering documents.

• Write descriptive reports, technical data sheets and supporting annexes in the format required by each recipient organization.

• To keep the record of versions of each file, so that it is always possible to identify which antecedent was presented and on what date.

Plans and cartography

• Develop and update in CAD the site plans, layouts, cuts and profiles required by each request, based on the models of the engineering disciplines.

• Verify that the symbology, scales, coordinate system and bullets comply with the project standard and the format required by the authority.

• Incorporate base mapping, environmental layers and territorial restrictions using GIS tools in the plans that accompany the applications.

Quality and traceability

• Apply the project document control procedures: coding, review, approval, issuance and archiving of each deliverable.

• Ensure that any antecedent submitted to the authority has traceable support to an approved engineering document.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Requires a Technical or professional degree in technical drawing, geomensing, civil construction or engineering, Architecture, with complementary training in environmental matters and between 3 and 5 years in engineering or construction projects, with direct participation in the preparation of permit files.

• Requires regulatoryknowledge: EnvironmentalImpactAssessmentSystem, sectoralenvironmentalpermitsandconstructionpermits; formatsanddeadlinesfor submissiontothe competentbodies

• Experience in mining or heavy industry projects and familiarity with international engineering standards (Preferred)

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• AutoCAD or Civil 3D, GIS tools (QGIS or ArcGIS), advanced spreadsheet skills, and document control platforms.

• Native Spanish and technical English reading proficiency for project documentation.

• Available for site visits and to work toward permitting milestones with fixed statutory deadlines.

• Documentation Rigor: Reviews each supporting document before issuance and identifies inconsistencies among drawings, descriptive reports, and appendices. (Advanced)

• Technical Drafting Proficiency: Produces clear, standardized drawings from incomplete or evolving information. (Advanced)

• Deadline Management: Organizes workload around statutory milestones and anticipates bottlenecks. (Advanced)

• Interdisciplinary Coordination: Clearly requests information from other disciplines and follows through on agreed commitments. (Intermediate)

• Written Communication: Writes precise technical documents using the formal language required by the authority (Intermediate)

• Environmental Judgment: Understands the intent of regulatory requirements, not just the submission format. (Intermediate)

• Right to live and work in country of assignment without sponsorship

Total Rewards/Benefits:

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