Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bechtel ya shiga kasuwancin iyali a 1948. Duk da yake da farko yana son shiga cikin ginin gida, mahaifinsa ya shawo kansa ta hanyar nuna ayyukan Bechtel Corporation na duniya a cikin tafiyar makonni uku. Ya gaji mahaifinsa, Stephen Bechtel Sr., a matsayin shugaban kamfanin Bechtel Corporation a 1960 kuma shugabanci a 1969. Ayyukansa tare da kamfanin ya shafe shekaru 30 har zuwa lokacin da ya yi ritaya a shekarar 1990. A lokacinsa, kamfanin wanda a baya aka san shi da aikinsa a Dam din Hoover da Bay Area Rapid Transit, ya fadada sawun sa na duniya ta hanyar aiki a ramin Channel tsakanin Faransa da Burtaniya, Filin jirgin saman King Khalid na kasa da kasa a Riyadh da Jubail Industrial City a Saudi Arabia. Wannan na ƙarshe ana ɗaukarsa ɗayan manyan ayyukan injiniyan ƙasa na lokacin. Kamfanin ya shiga cikin gina tashoshin mai a cikin Tekun Arewa, tsire-tsire na iskar gas a Algeria, Indonesia da Hadaddiyar Daular Larabawa, da kuma tsaftace tashar wutar lantarki ta nukiliya Three Mile Island
a cikin Pennsylvania.