LOTO Authority

Bechtel Global Corporation; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Bechtel is seeking a LOTO Authority Energy Marshal for our Houston, TX project. You will administer Energy Isolation Management and Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) within the project Energy Isolation program, coordinating with construction, startup, ES&H, and engineering teams to maintain safe, zero-energy conditions.

You will verify compliance, issue and close permits, and apply live-dead-live verification and other safety controls.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of NFPA 70E, electrically safe work conditions, shock and arc-flash risk controls.
• Ability to scope and evaluate isolation boundaries using drawings, schematics, and field data.
• Experience administering EIPs, energy-boundary registers, lock box and key controls, safety tagging, and auditable records.

Responsibilities

• Implement Energy Isolation Management and LOTO programs per Bechtel procedures, project safety plans, permits, NFPA 70E, and regulations.
• Define isolation boundaries using field walkdowns, drawings, P&IDs, panel schedules, cable data, system status, stored energy, feeds, backfeeds, and interfaces.
• Review, issue, modify, suspend, revoke, and close Energy Isolation Permits with verified scope and sign-off.
• Coordinate energization, re-energization, switching, isolation, and handovers with multiple teams and customers.
• Apply electrical safe-work requirements including live-dead-live verification and temporary/permanent power controls.

Skills

NFPA 70E

LOTO program

Electrical safety

Energy isolation

Coordination

Communication

Field walkdowns

Project safety plans

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Requisition ID:300617

• Relocation Authorized:National - Family
• Telework Type:Full-Time Office/Project
• Work Location: Houston, TX

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Project Overview:

Bechtel’s Manufacturing & Technology (M&T) Business Unit is designing and building an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) Manufacturing Facility located at Generation Park in Houston, TX. M&T is an exciting and growing business unit that serves customers in the semiconductor, datacenter, life sciences, and electric vehicle markets. M&T strives to exceed our customer objectives through utilizing our agility, innovative technologies, and world class talent. M&T solves the industry's toughest challenges, building both our company and the world for the future. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, the M&T global business unit also includes colleagues working in Arizona, Ohio, Texas, India, and additional project locations around the world.

Job Summary:

The LOTO Authority functions as an Energy Marshal that administers assigned activities within the project Energy Isolation Management and Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) program for construction activities under Bechtel jurisdictional control. The role serves as a control point for hazardous-energy isolation, energization planning, authorization, system-status identification, switching coordination, work release, and return to service. The LOTO Authority coordinates with Work Group Supervisors, Authorized Operators, Permit Requestors, Subcontractors, other Contractors, Commissioning and Startup, ES&H, Engineering, Construction, and Customer representatives to maintain documented and traceable control of temporary and permanent hazardous-energy sources through the construction phases and eventual LOTO program turn-over to commissioning and startup.

The Energy Marshal governs the process and independently verifies compliance; and has authority from project leadership to stop electrical work, deny energization, require correction, quarantine equipment and suspend an electrical permit or switching plan when conditions do not meet the approved requirements. Schedule or production pressure shall not override this authority.

Major Responsibilities:

• Implement Energy Isolation Management and LOTO programs per Bechtel procedures, project safety plans, permits, NFPA 70E, and regulations.
• Define isolation boundaries using field walkdowns, drawings, P&IDs, panel schedules, cable data, system status, stored energy, normal/alternate feeds, backfeeds, temporary sources, generators, UPS, batteries, interlocks, and contractor interfaces.
• Review, issue, modify, suspend, revoke, and close Energy Isolation Permits. Verify scope, isolation points, protective measures, sequencing, independent verification, zero-energy checks, sign-on/off, work release, and return-to-service requirements.
• Coordinate energization, re-energization, switching, isolation, Sanction to Test, restoration, custody transfers, pre-job briefings, notifications, handovers, and interfaces.
• Apply electrical safe-work requirements, including live-dead-live verification, energized-work controls, shock/arc-flash protection, and temporary/permanent power controls. Treat unidentified conditions as energized until proven otherwise and eliminate energized work when feasible.
• Control safety tags, LOTO devices, keys/lock boxes, permit and switching logs, EIP files, boundary registers, authorized-personnel records, equipment status, drawings, and other required records.
• Lead readiness reviews to verify construction, inspection, testing, labeling, guarding, documentation, access, emergency provisions, and operational controls before energization or boundary changes.
• Support authorization, training, competency assessment, and re-verification of hazardous-energy-control personnel.
• Audit LOTO, temporary power, energized boundaries, panels/cables, grounding, exposed parts, equipment/enclosure condition, labeling, conveying systems, and unauthorized modifications. Investigate deficiencies, support corrective actions and lessons learned, and verify closure.
• Exercise stop-work authority; deny energization, quarantine equipment, or suspend/revoke permits and switching plans when safety requirements are not met.
• Ensure circuits, feeders, panels, switchgear, motor control centers, transformers, generators, UPS, batteries, and connected equipment are not energized, re-energized, backfed, or considered de-energized without documented controls.
• Maintain source/boundary registers, temporary-power one-lines, and panel/circuit directories covering feeds, sources, tie breakers, backfeeds, and contractor interfaces with durable equipment identification.
• Coordinate with electrical, Construction, commissioning, and startup teams on energizations, outages, tie-ins, switching, testing, temporary-power changes, and required first-time pre-energization meetings.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Required bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 5-8 years of relevant experience or 9-12 years of relevant work experience

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Knowledge of NFPA 70E, electrically safe work conditions, shock and arc-flash risk controls, energized-work interfaces, live-dead-live testing, temporary and permanent power systems, switching, and low-, medium-, and high-voltage isolation methods.
• Knowledge of electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, chemical, thermal, pressure, gravity, kinetic, and stored-energy controls, including positive, proved, non-proved, group, system-boundary, and project-wide master isolations.
• Ability to scope and evaluate isolation and energization boundaries using current drawings, single-line diagrams, schematics, P&IDs, panel schedules, cable data, equipment documents, field walkdowns, system status, interlocks, alternate feeds, backfeeds, temporary sources, and commissioning interfaces.
• Experience administering EIPs, energy-boundary registers, lock box and key controls, safety tagging, zero-energy verification, switching logs, Sanction to Test, permit changes, shift handovers, emergency changes or closures, custody transfer, and auditable records.
• Ability to assess energization readiness, temporary-power controls, grounding and bonding, labeling, guarding, inspection and testing status, access restrictions, emergency provisions, and return-to-service requirements.
• Strong communication, technical judgment, organizational, training, and coordination skills to work across Construction, Startup, Engineering, ES&H, subcontractors, utilities, adjacent contractors, and customers, and intervene when requirements or safe energy-control conditions are not met.

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