CWE Specialist

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Project Overview:

Bechtel’s Manufacturing and Technology (M&T) Business Unit is designing, building and commissioning a semiconductor fab in Clay, NY. 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 CWE Professional Development Senior Specialist is an individual-contributor role dedicated full-time to advancing Construction Professional Development initiatives across Bechtel projects. In addition, the PD Senior Specialist, as a member of the Project Construction Workface Effectiveness team, supports the overall goal of workface execution success. This position coordinates, manages, and delivers workforce development programs that strengthen construction onboarding, role competency, workforce readiness, and project execution performance for Field Engineers and other project-based construction staff professionals.

The Senior Specialist combines construction workforce development expertise with disciplined program execution. The role requires a highly organized and influential professional who is equally comfortable facilitating training in front of diverse audiences, analyzing workforce performance data, and driving measurable improvements in workforce readiness and construction execution effectiveness. Success in this role depends on leadership through influence rather than formal authority, as the Senior Specialist regularly coordinates activity across multiple organizations and stakeholder groups without direct reporting relationships.

Major Responsibilities:

• Coordinate, manage, and facilitate construction onboarding programs for project personnel, ensuring new and transferring employees are integrated efficiently into project teams.
• Support the development and implementation of role competency frameworks for Field Engineers, Field Superintendents, and other project-based construction staff professionals, partnering with subject matter experts to keep frameworks aligned with field execution realities.
• Deliver instructor-led training, workshops, onboarding sessions, and professional development programs to project and functional audiences, adapting delivery style to diverse learner groups.Partner with project leadership, functional managers, Human Resources, and Construction leadership to identify workforce capability gaps and develop targeted solutions.
• Manage program schedules, logistics, stakeholder coordination, and execution plans across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Develop, maintain, and present dashboards, metrics, reports, and performance insights to project and functional leadership, translating data into actionable recommendations.
• Track and report training effectiveness, workforce readiness, competency attainment, and participation metrics against program goals.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives related to workforce development, onboarding, learning delivery, and construction execution excellence.
• Influence stakeholders across multiple organizations and functions without direct authority, building credibility through subject-matter expertise and consistent program delivery.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 5-8 years of relevant experience or 9-12 years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in construction, field operations, engineering, project controls.
• Strong facilitation, presentation, and communication skills, with demonstrated ability to engage diverse audiences.
• Experience planning, coordinating, and executing complex programs and schedules involving multiple stakeholders and moving parts.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate across multiple functions and organizational levels without formal authority.
• Demonstrated analytical and reporting skills, including dashboard development, metric interpretation, and translating data into leadership-ready insights.
• Strong organizational and project management capabilities, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic project environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 tools, reporting platforms, and learning management systems.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience facilitating adult learning programs and professional development initiatives for technical or field-based audiences.
• Understanding of EPC (Engineer-Procure-Construct) project environments and construction work processes.
• Experience working directly on large capital projects, including exposure to field engineering or superintendent functions.

Total Rewards/Benefits:

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