Lead Turnover Coordinator

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Project Overview:

Thacker Pass is the largest known lithium resource in the United States. Once complete, the mine and processing facilities will produce more lithium carbonate than any other facility in the United States by far – enough to power 1 million electric vehicles per year. 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:

Assigned to the project team as a representative of the Construction functional group, the Lead Turnover Coordinator is responsible for coordinating between Construction, Startup, Subcontractors, and the Customer to ensure that the area and system turnover logic is communicated to construction and coordinating walkdowns of the various areas and startup systems to identify remaining work. The Lead Turnover Coordinator will be responsible for leading the day-to-day activities of a team of technical and administrative personnel. The Lead Turnover Coordinator will oversee the punch listing program for systems and area turnovers and will participate in expediting the completion of the remaining work. They will also be responsible for ensuring completions tracking programs are up to date for their teams’ scope and for assuring that all applicable documentation and inspection forms are complete, compiled and presented for turnover.

Major Responsibilities:

• Coordinate between Construction, Startup, Subcontractors, and the Customer that the areas and systems are ready for turnover.
• Walkdown the areas/systems to identify outstanding work.
• Review the documentation for the areas/systems to ensure that the package is complete.
• Work with the Field Eng’r, vendor and/contractor to assure that all documents are complete in accordance with the plans and specifications.
• Review the punch list for the system/area to make sure that all items are complete, RFI’s closed, DCN’s issued (if required).
• Expediting the completion of the remaining work.
• Ensure completions tracking programs are up to date for the area/system.
• Assure that all applicable documentation and inspection forms are complete, compiled and presented for turnover.

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:

• Previous experience in field engineering or construction supervision.
• Previous experience in a leadership role.
• Demonstrated ability to oversee, prioritize, and execute multiple assignments involving multiple internal and external organizations.
• Must have the ability to walk into and out of the project (enter/egress).
• Must be able to use appropriate standard issued Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) required for each assigned task (i.e. harness, life vest, lift buckets, etc.) 
• Strong communication skills.
• Working knowledge of P&IDs, Single Line Diagrams and Civil/Structural drawings.
• Industrial Construction experience preferred.
• Computer literate in word processing, spreadsheet, and database applications.
• Familiarity with Teamworks and Setroute is a plus. 

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