Job Description

Overview

The Mechanical Field Engineer III plays a crucial role in delivering complex industrial construction projects by providing field engineering expertise that connects engineering design with safe, practical, and high-quality construction execution. This position involves working directly at project sites to ensure that mechanical installations conform to approved engineering specifications while collaborating with various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Provide mechanical field engineering expertise to support safe, efficient, and high-quality construction execution.
  • Interpret engineering drawings, specifications, calculations, equipment data, vendor documentation, and project requirements for construction teams.
  • Evaluate actual field conditions and develop or recommend practical engineering solutions when site conditions differ from design assumptions.
  • Support installation of rotating equipment, static equipment, packaged systems, vessels, pumps, compressors, heat exchangers, and other mechanical equipment.
  • Review and respond to Requests for Information (RFIs), technical queries, field changes, drawing discrepancies, and other construction-related engineering issues.
  • Coordinate technical resolutions with home-office engineering, construction management, quality, procurement, vendor representatives, and commissioning teams.
  • Verify mechanical construction activities conform to approved drawings, specifications, applicable codes and standards, vendor requirements, and project procedures.
  • Support constructability reviews, construction readiness assessments, workface planning, and field execution planning.
  • Perform field inspections and technical walkdowns to verify installation quality, completion status, and compliance with engineering requirements.
  • Identify technical, constructability, quality, or interface issues that could affect safety, cost, schedule, or system completion and recommend appropriate solutions.
  • Review vendor information and coordinate technical issues associated with equipment installation, preservation, alignment, testing, and turnover.
  • Support dimensional verification, equipment setting, alignment, grouting, mechanical completion, and associated inspection activities.
  • Coordinate mechanical interfaces with piping, civil/structural, electrical, instrumentation, controls, quality, and commissioning disciplines.
  • Support punch-list development, deficiency resolution, mechanical completion, system turnover, pre-commissioning, and commissioning readiness activities.
  • Maintain accurate field engineering records, redlines, technical correspondence, inspection documentation, and engineering change information.
  • Prepare technical reports, field engineering assessments, recommendations, and project status information.
  • Provide technical guidance to project personnel and assist others with mechanical field engineering systems, processes, and tools.
  • Support continuous improvement initiatives that enhance constructability, engineering quality, field productivity, and project execution.

Requirements

  • University degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent trade qualification combined with further relevant training and experience.
  • Typically 5+ years of relevant experience for degree-qualified candidates or 10+ years of relevant experience supported by trade qualifications.
  • Demonstrated experience in mechanical field engineering, industrial construction, equipment installation, mechanical completion, commissioning support, or related project execution activities.
  • Advanced knowledge of mechanical equipment, systems, construction methodologies, field engineering practices, and installation requirements.
  • Experience interpreting mechanical drawings, equipment layouts, specifications, vendor documentation, P&IDs, installation details, and other technical information.
  • Ability to evaluate field conditions, identify technical issues, and develop practical recommendations within established engineering requirements.
  • Strong understanding of construction quality requirements, inspections, equipment installation, mechanical completion, turnover, and commissioning interfaces.
  • Experience supporting industrial, energy, chemicals, power generation, LNG, petrochemical, refining, mining, manufacturing, or major capital projects is highly desirable.
  • Strong understanding of engineering change management, RFIs, technical queries, field modifications, and construction documentation.
  • Demonstrated analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities.
  • Ability to make independent technical decisions within assigned responsibilities and appropriately escalate complex or unusual technical matters.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to clearly communicate technical requirements to engineering and construction personnel.
  • Strong understanding of field engineering systems, processes, tools, and project documentation practices.
  • Ability to provide technical guidance and coordinate assigned activities with other project personnel when required.
  • Commitment to HSE, engineering integrity, construction quality, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

Benefits

  • PTO
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k

Benefits

PTO
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k

How this job compares in Baytown, TX

Pay in context

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The local market in Baytown, TX

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Worley currently has 19 other openings live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Zachry Group (33), Austin Industries (29), and Welding Shop in Austin, TX (21). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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