Innovation Lead

Requisition ID: 296088

• Relocation Authorized: International - Single
• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project
• Work Location: Jubail

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Project Overview Jubail is one of Bechtel’s most remarkable achievements—a city built from the sand up, requiring vast resources and logistical planning on an unprecedented scale. It the biggest civil engineering project in modern times—and it's getting bigger. Bechtel has managed the Jubail project, located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, since it began in the mid-1970s. Saudi Arabian Bechtel Company (SABCO) serves as the Management Services Contractor (MSC), or “owner’s representative” for our client, the Royal Commission (RC). We are the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) managers, managing design submissions from local AE firms, and overseeing the actual construction work being performed by local contractors and sub-contractors in Jubail and Ras Al-Khair Industrial Cities. In June 2021, Bechtel’s contract with the Royal Commission was renewed for another 5 years with work focusing on building new residential communities, iconic buildings/ bridges, major site preparation, commercial buildings, mosques, schools, hospitals, sports facilities, clinics, universities, utility services and infrastructure (electrical sub-stations, lift stations), roads and highways, port & pipeline expansions, and more.

Job Summary In this role you will be growing and showcasing Bechtel’s digital solutions and Innovation capability and maturity while expanding the culture of digital transformation and innovation by developing, piloting, and implementing solutions related to Engineering, Procurement, Project Controls, Construction and Commissioning. Additionally, you will be accountable for developing and delivering execution plans, training plans and required upskilling associated with various physical and digital solutions.

Major Responsibilities

• Conduct workshops with clients, partners and stakeholders to develop project innovation use-cases, roadmaps and plans.
• Facilitate innovation change control board for identifying impactful innovation, implementation planning, change management and institutionalization program.
• Review and enhance tender documents with contract language required to enable adoption of targeted innovation by the delivery teams either via requirements documentation for digital workflows or directly into the engineering/procurement specifications and flow-downs.
• Work with the project teams to develop a score card for assessing each delivery team’s capability and capacity for upskilling to meet innovation and technology adoption as part of the bid evaluation/award process. Develop training plans for the use of new technologies.
• Collaborate closely with the Functional Innovation and Information Management teams to leverage standards, integrate best practices and lessons learned, and support