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Job Summary:
The Workforce Development Instructor for Pipefitting delivers classroom, hands-on, field, and skills-based training that supports the development, qualification, and safe performance of craft professionals on large industrial construction projects. The instructor builds field-ready pipefitting capability through practical demonstrations, structured coaching, written and hands-on assessments, and competency verification. This position supports both Union and Open Shop operations with regular deployment to project locations for training and workforce development activities. #LI-TH1
Major Responsibilities:
Deliver pipefitting instruction: Provide classroom, hands-on, and field-based instruction for apprentices, helpers, journey-level craft professionals, and supervisory personnel.
Teach drawing interpretation: Develop participant proficiency in reading piping drawings, isometrics, orthographic drawings, specifications, line lists, and P&IDs; calculate cut lengths, takeoffs, offsets, rolling offsets, coordinates, and elevations.
Evaluate competency: Administer written assessments, practical demonstrations, skills verifications, and job-level assessments; document results, identify performance gaps, and provide fair, skill-focused coaching and retraining.
Support workforce progression: Facilitate apprenticeship, upskilling, multiskilling, craft progression, qualification, certification, and workforce-readiness programs aligned with established curricula and project needs.
Connect training to field execution: Coordinate supervised field application, quality checks, feedback, and documentation so participants can safely transfer classroom and lab learning to production work.
Maintain qualification boundaries: Teach and evaluate only within assigned qualifications and approved program requirements. Reinforce that welding, inspection, testing, equipment operation, and other specialized activities require the appropriate separate qualification or authorization.
Maintain training materials: Develop, review, and update lesson plans, participant materials, practical exercises, assessments, and evaluator guides to reflect industrial practices, controlled requirements, and lessons learned.
Maintain records: Coordinate training events and maintain accurate attendance, assessment, qualification, progression, and completion documentation.
Support projects: Travel extensively to project sites and support workforce mobilization, project startup, instructor coordination, training-facility setup, regional coverage, and short-notice training needs.
Promote safe and respectful learning: Reinforce environmental, safety, health, and quality requirements; explain the reason behind expectations; correct unsafe behavior immediately; and provide constructive feedback privately when practical.
Education and Experience Requirements:
Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 2-5 years of relevant experience or 6-9 years of relevant work experience in lieu of degree.
Journey-level pipefitting knowledge and substantial hands-on experience performing industrial pipefitting work on large construction projects, including process piping systems.
Demonstrated experience with pipe layout, fabrication, fit-up, installation, alignment, supports, flange joints, and interpretation of piping drawings and specifications.
Previous experience as a pipefitting foreman, general foreman, superintendent, lead craft professional, evaluator, apprenticeship instructor, or craft trainer is preferred.
Required Knowledge and Skills:
Strong working knowledge of industrial pipe, fittings, flanges, valves, gaskets, supports, hangers, piping components, material identification, dimensions, schedules, ratings, and common joining methods.
Ability to interpret piping drawings, isometrics, P&IDs, specifications, line designations, coordinates, elevations, tolerances, and field installation requirements.
Proficiency in piping math, measurement, takeoffs, cut lengths, offsets, rolling offsets, layout, fit-up, alignment, bolt-up, and use of common pipefitting tools and equipment.
Working knowledge of applicable OSHA construction requirements, hazard recognition, personal protective equipment, safe material handling, stored-energy controls, and quality expectations for piping work.
Ability to facilitate classroom, practical, and field-based instruction for participants with varied experience levels, literacy levels, learning styles, and generational backgrounds.
Ability to evaluate knowledge and demonstrated skill objectively, explain the why behind required practices, identify performance gaps, provide respectful coaching, and document qualification decisions.
Strong communication, presentation, facilitation, writing, organization, and time-management skills.
Ability to work independently in active field environments and collaborate with craft supervision, construction, safety, quality, engineering, and workforce-development personnel.
Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Ability and willingness to travel extensively, work project-to-project, and adjust schedules to support project execution.
Experience with NCCER Core and Pipefitting curricula, performance profiles, assessments, and credentialing processes.
NCCER Certified Craft Instructor, Master Trainer, or Performance Evaluator credentials. Candidates without these credentials must be able to obtain required instructor or evaluator credentials after hiring.
Experience supporting workforce-development environments; experience with other structured apprenticeship programs is also valuable.
Bilingual English and Spanish capability is a plus.
Familiarity with Bechtel processes is a plus but is not required. Required company-specific training, qualifications, and authorizations may be completed after hire.
Total Rewards/Benefits:
For decades, Bechtel has worked to inspire the next generation of employees and beyond! Because our teams face some of the world's toughest challenges, we offer robust benefits to ensure our people thrive. Whether it is advancing careers, delivering programs to enhance our culture, or providing time to recharge, Bechtel has the benefits to build a legacy of sustainable growth. Learn more at Bechtel Total Rewards
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How Houston compares. Among the 120 largest places in Texas, Houston is #1 by population, #114 for homeownership (#1 = highest), #88 for household income (#1 = highest), #49 for college degrees (#1 = most). Its county, Harris County, is #9 of 254 counties for average pay ($88,554).
The place in numbers
Houston has 2,328,253 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 7.7% of the population of Texas. It covers 641 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 3,634 people per square mile. The median age is 34.4, 3% younger than the state median (34.4 against 35.6).
Housing
The median gross rent is $1,361 a month (rent plus utilities), about the same as the state median ($1,361 against $1,403). Over a year that is 25.2% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $277,800, which is 4.3 times the median household income ($64,813). 42.1% of households own their home, 33% below the state average (42.1% against 62.6%). A low ownership share points to a rental-heavy market with more apartments and shorter stays.
Work and pay
The Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metropolitan area has 3,289,720 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $49,410 a year, 3% below the national median ($49,410 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (379,010 jobs, median $45,850); transportation and material moving (314,010 jobs, median $43,570); food preparation and serving related (307,980 jobs, median $28,530). The area is most specialised in architecture and engineering (1.4 times) and construction and extraction (1.3 times), where the share of workers is above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($126,630) and legal ($105,240). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Harris County was 4.6%. 67.1% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Harris County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.
Getting around
Among workers, 67.7% drive alone, 3.2% use public transit, 2.0% walk, 13.0% work from home. 15.7% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 7% below the state average (15.7% against 16.9%).
People and education
36.6% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 8% above the state share (36.6% against 33.8%). 29.3% of residents were born outside the United States, 67% above the state share (29.3% against 17.6%). The poverty rate is 19.9%, 44% above the state rate (19.9% against 13.8%).
Climate
The warmest month is Aug, averaging 84°F (29.0°C), and the coolest is Jan at 51°F (10.3°C). About 1,246 mm (49 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Oct is the wettest month (128 mm) and Feb the driest (69 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.
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