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David Wilson
Chief Innovation Officer
David J Wilson is chief innovation officer, and works in the Reston office. He was elected principal vice president in 2016.
David manages Bechtel’s Future Fund, a program designed to encourage colleagues across the company to create, share, explore and develop new ideas to enhance performance and competitiveness.
He joined Bechtel in 2001 as a mechanical systems engineer at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant in Richland, Wash. Since then he has held positions of increasing responsibility with leadership roles as a Lean Six Sigma black belt and as manager of a telecommunications mobility project. His most recent role was as manager of innovation and virtual project delivery for the infrastructure global business unit.
David is a graduate of the University of Utah and received a master’s degree in 2006 in Engineering and Technology Management. He is a certified professional engineer and Six Sigma Master Black Belt.
In our experience, the best way to mature innovative solutions is to prototype them in a physical environment that closely reflects job site conditions, essentially a lab for designers and builders. Doing so results in a better understanding of integration complexity, the capabilities of the technology, and real versus theoretical benefit discrepancies, as well as the implications of how solutions might be deployed and scaled.
October 29, 2019
3 min read
By: David Wilson, Chief Innovation Officer
You may be doing things accidentally that naturally discourage innovators. Good news is you can still do something about it.
January 10, 2019
7 min read
By: David Wilson, Chief Innovation Officer
Read here to learn more about Bechtel's innovative culture.
September 22, 2018
By: David Wilson, Chief Innovation Officer