As the EPCM contractor for Lithium Americas, Bechtel is responsible for managing and integrating the efforts of a team contractors engineering and building the facility. We are also managing procurement of about $1 Billion in goods and services.
Earth work began in 2023 and design and procurement of long-lead equipment is underway.
The project is located in the high desert and wide-open spaces of north-central Nevada about 25 miles from the Oregon border, 1 hour northwest of Winnemucca, Nevada and 3 hours northeast of Reno.
Planned with sustainability and the environment in mind, the facility will use its excess process heat to generate electricity and will recycle process water up to seven times. Once the second phase of the project is complete, Thacker Pass will produce more than 16 times the current U.S. output of lithium.
Bechtel is proud to play a critical role in the U.S. transition to cleaner energy and offers the following opportunity on the Thacker Pass Project.
Job Summary
In this role, you will support material planning and/or material coordination for a large project site. Planning will include implementation of the Material Management Plan. Coordination will include serving as a liaison between Project and Field Procurement and Construction for accurate reporting of materials. Your efforts will ensure the site receives materials required for work package installation. #LI-NP1
Major Responsibilities
Implements the Material Management Plan and coordinates the specification, identification, and quantification of materials with Engineering and Construction during the front-end execution activities in the project office
Follows a strict set of guidelines to optimize the materials planning work processes for key material commodities
Ensures consistent material identification methodology and clearly defined responsibilities between project functions and the commodity work processes that allow for an efficient and economical Purchase and Supply process
Identifies any “special” or potentially lengthy approval requirements that could impact the timely issuance of the key engineering deliverables that drive the materials work process
Identifies, in coordination with Engineering, critical design drawings and data required from suppliers that may affect the timely issuance of other design deliverables or are needed by Construction well ahead of material delivery
Assists Engineering in implementing the project’s component numbering approaches, as required by sound materials management practices and the project Automation Plan, including tagged materials, bulk materials, and spares
Verifies that material requisitions clearly identify required pay items and reflect a level of detail in which materials will be shipped and identified for storage and control prior to distribution to Construction for installation
Assists in identifying out-of-sequence engineering deliverables or lengthy approval requirements that could impact the timely issuance of the key engineering deliverables that drive the materials work process
Maintains direct working relationship with Project Controls, Discipline Engineers, Supply Chain, Automation Support and/or Construction Coordinator to ensure that construction personnel are provided with materials to support the completion of the construction work
Monitors Engineering and Supply Chain deliverable schedules and ensures will meet the construction schedule
Education and Experience Requirements
Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 8-10 years of relevant experience or 12-14 years of relevant work experience
Required Knowledge and Skills
Advanced knowledge of Field Materials Management work processes and systems expertise.
Advanced knowledge of project Procurement operations related to the acquisition of materials on projects.
Advanced knowledge of Engineering disciplines, the work process and the deliverables produced.
Advanced knowledge of ERP Systems including drawing takeoff input, Material Allocation Planner, Expediting Tracking Application, input of requisitions, and goods and services codes.
Advanced knowledge of related Engineering, Project Controls, and Construction Standard Applications Programs (BSAP), and their modes of data interfacing within the ERP systems.
Advanced knowledge of vendor, fabricator, contractor, Customer and other outside data systems and how those systems interact with ERP systems.
Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
Advanced knowledge of work packaging, pre-buy methodology, and materials status reporting.
Advanced skills in working with and communicating effectively with supervisors of other project functional groups, primarily Field Engineering, Construction, and Project Controls.
Advanced knowledge of laydown and warehouse operations and standard material handling processes.
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