Kevin Edwards | AIChE

Kevin Edwards

Global Manager of Culture, Inclusion & Diversity
Bechtel Corporate

Kevin Edwards leads the Culture, Inclusion and Diversity program at Bechtel Corporate.  This involves recruiting efforts at several key partner schools and minority professional conferences to bring diverse, engineering, procurement and construction talent to the organization.  Additionally, the talent management, promotion process, ERGs and/or other people processes will be updated to support our inclusion and diversity commitments.

Previous Experience

Prior to this role, Kevin was Corporate Quality & Six Sigma’s Integration and Effectiveness Manager responsible for the development and implementation of the quality and continuous improvement tools throughout the enterprise.  Before his Corporate assignment, Kevin was the Field Engineering Manager for the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project, ensuring the design drawing (IFCs), specifications and supplier documents were implemented during the direct hire (DH) construction field activities.

Previous positions also included Lead Field Engineer, Civil, and Lead Resident Engineer.  Six Sigma played a part in Kevin’s Bechtel background as he held a Project Master Black Belt position for the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project, and was the Six Sigma Deployment Coordinator/MBB/BB for Bechtel’s Communications Business Line.

Education

Kevin earned his Masters of Engineering in Environmental Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, and his Bachelors of Science in Industrial Engineering from Rutgers University.