Lead Instrumentation Field Engineer - Semicon Fab Projects

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

Benefits offered by this job

Total Rewards program

Job summary

Bechtel is seeking a Lead Instrumentation Field Engineer in Chandler, AZ to provide technical leadership across instrumentation and controls on a major project. You will guide field engineers, coordinate with construction, commissioning, and startup teams, and ensure quality and timely turnover of instrumentation systems.

The role demands extensive experience with DCS/PLC/SCADA, strong leadership, and a track record of delivering complex industrial projects within EPC environments.

Qualifications

• Required bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 8-10 years of relevant experience or 12-14 years of relevant work experience.
• Extensive knowledge of industrial instrumentation, analyzers, control systems, field communications, tubing systems, and instrumentation installation practices.
• Strong understanding of DCS, PLC, SCADA, networking, fieldbus architectures, industrial Ethernet, and modern automation systems.
• Experience leading instrumentation field engineering organizations on large industrial, manufacturing, semiconductor, energy, mining, chemical, or M&T projects.
• Strong understanding of construction planning, workface planning, AWP principles, and constraint management.
• Deep knowledge of commissioning, loop checking, functional testing, system turnover, startup, and operational readiness processes.
• Ability to interpret instrument indexes, loop diagrams, hookup drawings, wiring diagrams, P&IDs, vendor documentation, and control narratives.
• Strong understanding of project quality systems, turnover requirements, and technical documentation management.
• Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and conflict resolution skills.
• Experience supporting schedule management, productivity improvement, risk mitigation, and execution recovery planning.
• Ability to lead through technical expertise, influence, and collaboration across multiple organizations.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: primary technical authority for instrumentation and controls construction activities.
• Planning and Workface Readiness: lead development of work packages and field execution plans.
• Construction and Execution Support: coordinate instrumentation activities with multiple groups.
• Quality and Turnover Management: ensure inspections, testing, and turnover documentation.
• Commissioning and Startup Readiness: coordinate readiness reviews and functional testing.
• Progress and Performance Management: monitor progress and forecast needs.
• Team Leadership and Development: mentor instrumentation field engineers and set standards.

Skills

Instrumentation

Controls

DCS/PLC/SCADA

Field engineering leadership

Industrial instrumentation

Team leadership

Project execution

Education

Bachelor's degree or international equivalent

Tools

DCS

PLC

SCADA

Job description

Bechtel is seeking a Lead Instrumentation Field Engineer in Chandler, AZ to provide technical leadership across instrumentation and controls on a major project. You will guide field engineers, coordinate with construction, commissioning, and startup teams, and ensure quality and timely turnover of instrumentation systems.

The role demands extensive experience with DCS/PLC/SCADA, strong leadership, and a track record of delivering complex industrial projects within EPC environments.