Project Supplier Quality Representative

Requisition ID: 279388 

•  Relocation Authorized: National/International - Accompanied 
• Telework Type: Part-Time Telework 
• Work Location: Houston, TX 

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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:

In this role, you will represent Bechtel as the supplier's project quality point of contact. You will perform quality surveillance and hands on inspections to verify that supplier equipment, material, documentation, and personnel activities conform to the requirements of procurement documents. You will work with supplier representatives to ensure requirements are understood and implemented. #LI-NP1

"This position is designated as part-time telework per our global telework policy and may require at least three days of in-person attendance per week at the assigned office or project. Weekly in-person schedules will be determined by the individual and their supervisor, in consultation with functional or project leadership”

Major Responsibilities:

• On a small sized project, represents Bechtel as the supplier’s prime contact with respect to supplier quality and performs quality surveillance activities defined by the assignment scope to verify that supplier furnished equipment, and material conforms to the technical and quality requirements of the procurement documents 
• Reviews the procurement document requirements with supplier representatives to ensure they are understood and implemented 
• Monitors supplier personnel activities including witnessing of operations, inspections, examinations, or tests to verify procurement document requirements have been met 
• Performs hands on inspections to verify by re-examination the efficacy of supplier inspection efforts and to provide assurance of the conformance of equipment or materials to procurement document requirements 
• Reviews supplier generated quality verification documentation to verify conformance to procurement document requirements 
• Rejects material found nonconforming and collaborates with the supplier and project supplier quality personnel to obtain a course of supplier action which facilitates satisfactory disposition of disclosed non-conformances 
• Releases conforming material for shipment and notifies other Bechtel functional organizations to assist in coordination of their activities 
• Evaluates supplier’s conformance to specified quality criteria on a specific assignment or group of assignments to provide input to recommendations for placement of future orders 
• Conducts surveys or audits or surveys of suppliers, when assigned 
• Participates as an audit team member or technical resource for nuclear material and/or quality program audits Monitors the administrative and technical performance of Third Party Agency quality surveillance contractor personnel to assure that Corporate Supplier Quality Manual and Procedures and quality surveillance assignment instructions are implemented

Education and Experience Requirements:

Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and minimum of 6 years of relevant experience or 9-12 years of relevant work experience

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Minimum 6 year of relevant industry experience in inspection and testing activities.
• Basic computer skills including Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Power Point).
• Prior experience in writing technical procedures and problem solving

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