CWE Specialist

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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 support construction workface effectiveness programs including coordination of participants, course design, leadership development, learning tools, facilitation methods, dashboards, and reporting. You will monitor program quality and progress, collect data, and coordinate analysis activities. Your input and recommendations will support the design and effectiveness of future courses. #LI-NP1 

Major Responsibilities:

CWE Operations Specialist / Corporate Specialist 

• Provides scheduling, communication, and administrative support 
• Reviews and ensures quality assurance testing on all training materials created 
• Makes minor modifications to learning design to accommodate regional training needs 

Operations Specialist 

• Serves as Workface Resource assigned to specific project area, responsible for facilitating all CWE tools related to the identification and mitigation of workface constraints (i.e., site productivity engagement cycle; High-Performance Leaders (HPL) tailored behavior / leadership development; Process Improvement; Coaching) as defined in the project Construction Workface Effectiveness Execution Plan for assigned area in accordance with the requirements of this procedure 
• Conducts necessary interface points with Site, Area and Frontline Management / Leadership and responsible parties for report outs and mitigation strategies 
• Possesses responsibility for reporting and tracking project Construction Workface Effectiveness Execution Plan progress, including scheduling, attendance, status, and metrics, managing and requesting program materials, and/or consumables from the Construction Workface Effectiveness organization 
• Supports and coordinates data collection and reporting, coordinates analysis activities, root cause analysis, barrier identification and resolution at a corporate level across projects 

Corporate Specialist​ 

• Develops highly engaging and interactive learning and instructor led courses through all stages of the learning design process including conducting needs analysis, performing research, conducting pilots and train the trainer sessions as needed 
• Supports key stake holders (Cross-functional) in the development of learning curriculum and functional development strategy 
• Delivers and/or Facilitates workshops and learning solutions and identifies suitable technologies and/or delivery modalities to meet business and talent development needs 

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 1-2 years of relevant experience or 5-7 years of relevant work experience

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Lead people and manage programs
• Problem solving independently and within a team context and propose solutions
  Understand the various communication styles and preferences of the audience and adjust the message as needed for obvious interpretation
  
• Recognize, understand, manage own emotions and/or adjust emotions to adapt environments
  Recognize, understand, and influence the emotions of others
  
• Align programs to support the project and overall business goals of the company to directly influence outcomes, deliverables, and actions
  
• Build an inclusive environment where thoughts, ideas and disagreements are encouraged and generated by others to foster greater innovation and problem solving for business success
  
• Facilitate leadership development workshops and possess a visible foundation for leading experiential learning
  Identify and build development opportunities of applicable leadership resources and modules for gap closure that engages the audience and leads to leadership behavior change
  
• Model, as well as coach and mentor employees through leadership and supervisor development
  
• Identify, evaluate and recommend qualified field leadership for talent pools, promotions and transitions between projects
  Demonstrate consultation skills to interface with project mgmt. and identify appropriate productivity and human capital solutions to increase performance
  
• Must demonstrate classroom facilitation skills and knowledge of Discovery Learning
  
• Must have excellent people skills and the ability to deal with people in a professional manner and to contribute as a member of a team
  Must have experience with consultation techniques
  
• Experience leading a small group/team to achieve common goal
  Proven ability to maintain confidentiality of highly sensitive information
  Ability to work independently and in a team
  
• Must be organized, flexible, proactive and have strong written and oral communication skills
  Must be able to extract, compile, analyze and present data and information
  
• Intermediate Office skills (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Power BI)
  Must be willing to travel approx. 25% of the time (may be waived for Satellite SPL)
  
• Proven Construction Experience
  Team Leadership
  Advanced Microsoft Office skills including OneNote
  
• Advanced written and oral communication skills
  
• Bilingual English/Spanish

Total Rewards/Benefits:

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