Innovation Manager

Location: South East London

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Job Summary:

The Innovation Manager for the Infrastructure GBU plays a critical role in shaping how the business identifies, cultivates, and deploys transformative solutions that enhance project delivery, operational performance, and long-term customer value. As the GBU Innovation Manager, this role leads the creation and management of a structured innovation portfolio, aligning sector-driven opportunities with the broader GBU strategy and Bechtels enterprise innovation roadmap.

More than simply introducing new tools or technologies, the Innovation Manager is responsible for architecting a scalable, measurable, and sustainable innovation ecosystem that delivers real impact. This includes defining innovation value frameworks, capturing realized benefits, and guiding pilots from early exploration through to functional adoption and institutionalization. By partnering with sector leads, functional SMEs, M&BD teams, and project leadership, the Innovation Manager ensures that innovations address customer priorities, unlock measurable improvements in safety, construction efficiency, productivity, sustainability, and digital delivery, and accelerate enterprise-wide transformation.

This role is central to building an innovation-forward culture, fostering collaboration across projects, driving ideation campaigns, cultivating innovation champions, and ensuring that new ideas, technologies, and digital methodologies translate into meaningful project outcomes. The role comes at an exciting time when Bechtel is advancing deployment of Robotics and Construction Automation technologies. The role comes at a pivotal moment as Bechtel accelerates the deployment of robotics and construction automation across its global portfolio.

The Innovation Manager will play a leading role in shaping this transformation guiding development, piloting, and scaled delivery of next-generation construction technologies. If you are driven by the challenge of shaping how a global engineering organization delivers complex infrastructure through innovation, digital excellence, and data-driven practices, this role offers the opportunity to make a lasting impact across the Infrastructure GBUs portfolio of world-class projects.

"This position is designated as part-time telework per our global telework policy and may require at least three days of in-person attendance per week at the assigned office or project. Weekly in-person schedules will be determined by the individual and their supervisor, in consultation with functional or project leadership. Major Responsibilities:
Lead the Bechtel Innovate program for the Infrastructure GBU , including identifying, prototyping, piloting, and scaling innovations; measuring impact and value; and capturing lessons learned in the Bechtel Traction platform. Support Project Innovation Managers in developing and executing Project Innovation Plans that deliver measurable value to customers and strengthen Bechtels project execution offering. Develop and lead the Infrastructure GBUs strategy and deployment for Robotics and Construction Automation in collaboration with Bechtel Equipment Operations (BEO), Moonshot team and Infrastructure GBU Construction function.

Chair the Construction Innovation Task Force (CITF) and lead a network of Innovation Champions to disseminate, cross-pollinate, and institutionalize impactful innovations across projects, sectors, and regions. Manage the annual GBU innovation campaign to identify, prioritize, and resource a pipeline of high-value ideas based on anticipated ROI and customer benefit. Oversee the annual Innovation of the Year submissions , compiling the GBUs strongest innovations and coordinating with Bechtel Group for enterprise review.

Coordinate with sector leads, business line managers, project managers to identify customer value propositions, challenges, and priorities. Liaise with the GBU AI Program to ensure innovations align with the broader GBU AI and Data strategy. Support winning new…