Fire and Life Safety Engineer - Resident

Bechtel; Chandler (AZ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

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Job summary

Bechtel’s Fab 62 project in Chandler, AZ seeks a senior control systems engineer to lead design, development, modification, and evaluation of control systems components and processes for a world-class semiconductor facility. You will conduct field investigations, client interviews, and cost estimates to ensure exacting requirements are met.

Responsibilities include coordinating engineering and construction activities, ensuring compliance with specifications, and providing field support during

Qualifications

• 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 degree.
• Extensive knowledge of integrated life safety and emergency communication systems (e.g., fire alarm, EVACS, IB‑PSC/ERRC) and toxic gas monitoring.
• Strong understanding of engineering procedures, discipline deliverables, and project forecasting.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate Engineering and Construction/Procurement activities under the Resident Engineering Manager.
• Perform select engineering tasks per quality standards, cost, and schedule.
• Ensure facilities and systems meet engineering specifications and requirements.
• Provide field support during construction and coordinate with the engineer of record.
• Maintain as-built design documents and manage inspection requirements.
• Resolve field questions related to change notices and field scope changes.
• Monitor budget adherence and track trends for scope changes.
• Conduct site walkdowns.

Skills

Control systems

Electrical engineering

Fire alarm systems

NICET Level III

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree or international equivalent

Job description

Requisition ID: 296789

• Relocation Authorized: National - Family

• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project

• Work Location: Chandler, AZ

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Project Overview:

Fab 62 is an advanced semiconductor fabrication facility for Intel Corporation, located at Intel's Ocotillo campus in Chandler, Arizona. As part of this work, the M&T team is responsible for delivering the engineering, procurement, and construction scope required to complete and finish-out a leading-edge chipmaking facility — a highly demanding environment where precision, cleanliness, schedule certainty, and coordination across thousands of craft and professional personnel are essential to success. The project supports the continued expansion of domestic semiconductor manufacturing capacity, contributing to a more resilient technology supply chain while creating significant opportunity for the local Arizona workforce. Joining the Fab 62 team means contributing directly to one of the most strategically important construction efforts in the United States and helping deliver the infrastructure behind the next generation of microelectronics

Job Summary:

In this role, you will conduct field investigations and client interviews to determine work scope and cost estimates for a project’s control systems aspects. You will lead design, development, modification, and evaluation of control systems components and processes. Your recommendations will resolve technical issues and ensure unique and complex requirements of a project’s control systems aspects are met.

Major Responsibilities:

• Accountable to the Resident Engineering Manager for coordination of Engineering and Construction/Procurement activities, in accordance with the established technical quality standards, cost, and schedule.

• Accountable to the Resident Engineering Manager for the performance of select engineering tasks, in accordance with the established technical quality standards, cost, and schedule.

• Accountable to the Resident Engineering Manager for ensuring that facilities and systems are installed in accordance with the engineering specifications and requirements.

• Coordinates with the engineer of record and provides field support during construction.

• Ensures design documents reflect as-built conditions.

• Manages the specification of construction hold points and inspection requirements.

• Coordinates resolution of field questions related to field change notices and design change notices.

• Ensures Resident Engineering tasks are completed within budget and ensures trends are processed for facility scope changes.

• Perform site walkdowns

Education and Experience Requirements:

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 degree.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Requires extensive technical knowledge of integrated life safety and emergency communication systems—such as networked fire alarm and signaling, emergency voice/alarm communication systems (EVACS/ECS), air‑sampling smoke detection (e.g., VESDA), in‑building public safety communications (IB‑PSC/ERRC), and toxic gas monitoring

• Requires extensive technical knowledge of engineering systems, engineering calculations, applications of engineering methods and materials, applications of computer software to engineering problems to ensure the design is cost effective, in accordance with applicable safety, health, environmental regulations, customer requirements and engineering codes and standards.

• Must have working knowledge of engineering procedures, covering discipline deliverables, production and control, as well as organization and responsibilities for the Engineering Department.

• Thorough knowledge of business practices, project forecasting required.

• Experience in resolving complex technical problems and the ability to articulate explanations is essential.

• Excellent listening, oral and written communication, planning and organizational skills are essential.

• Professional registration in relevant engineering discipline or NICET Level III (Fire Alarm Systems) is preferred

• Previous experience/knowledge on semiconductor manufacturing design process.

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