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 is one of the biggest civil engineering projects 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 architect/engineering (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 2026, 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 and 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 the business by sharing project collateral, insights, and feedback.
• Define and deploy project dashboards to monitor & track implementation of innovation use-cases and related workflows (e.g., design management and construction management).
• Establish a structure for communication, stakeholder engagement, mobilization planning, deployment, and measurement of success.
• Capture lessons learned, best practices and implement improved workflows.
• Provide input to the Work Orders, RFPs and Contracts for innovation and digital execution.
• Reviews the project documentation to confirm alignment with the innovation roadmap and plans.
• Conducts regular assessments to review the implementation of the innovation plans and maturity achieved on the Project, and to seek opportunities for improvement.
• Champions innovation across the Project by establishing a culture for ideas and improvement opportunities to be raised, considered, and implemented.
  
  

Education And Experience Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or Construction, or Computer Science with 10-13 years’ experience in delivering large complex AEC projects, with a minimum of 5+ years of experience in innovation, digital automation, GIS/BIM/Reality Capture implementation environment.
• Experience developing innovation plans and an innovation strategy.
• Experience with dashboard definition, creation and deployment using PowerBI or similar.
• Experience in working closely with senior Client staff and project cross-functional team, design consultant and contractors.
  
  

Required Knowledge And Skills

• Ability to problem solve, especially in an integrated project delivery environment, applying industry best practices.
• Knowledge and experience in digital solutions as it relates to design management, construction management work processes and tools, while learning and understanding client environment and unique requirements.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to explain digital transformation and digital solutions and technologies to all levels of the organization.
• Self-motivated individual with outstanding leadership skills and the ability to influence without authority.
• Ability to manage priorities and take on additional evolving responsibilities with demonstrated experience providing direction/supervising to digital leads in engineering, construction, and other cross-functional teams.
  
  

Total Rewards/Benefits

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