Senior Expeditor

Bechtel Corporation•Brownsville, TX

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Expeditor participates in planning, staffing, and budgeting project expediting operations, distributing workload, monitoring assignments, evaluating supplier production schedules and progress, and developing procedures. The role contacts suppliers and follows up on engineering data, material acquisition, production, and shipment. It helps ensure supplier performance and delivery schedules meet project needs, coordinating priorities and corrective actions across project teams. The position supports Bechtel’s Rio Grande LNG project in Brownsville, Texas, a natural gas liquefaction and export terminal being developed in partnership with NextDecade. The first phase includes three liquefaction trains, two storage tanks, and one marine berth.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or international equivalent and 5–8 years of relevant experience, or 9–12 years of relevant work experience.
Demonstrated project or shop expediting experience for engineering and construction projects, with a strong understanding of procurement processes, supplier manufacturing activities, and material delivery requirements.
Ability to evaluate supplier production schedules and progress reports, identify risks to required delivery dates, and coordinate corrective actions and recovery plans.
Strong oral and written communication skills for discussing technical and production issues, resolving delivery concerns, and coordinating priorities across suppliers and project functions.
Ability to prioritize and coordinate expediting assignments, guide less experienced expeditors, and support workload planning, resource estimates, and expediting budgets.
Proficiency in procurement and expediting systems and Microsoft Excel to maintain status information, analyze supplier performance, and develop reports and metrics.

Responsibilities

Participate in planning, staffing, and budgeting project and area expediting operations for small-sized projects.
Distribute workload among project expeditors based on experience, ability, work complexity, and urgency.
Contact suppliers to obtain timely engineering data submissions and follow up on material acquisition, production progress, and shipment.
Evaluate supplier production schedules and progress reports to determine whether supplier programs and work progress meet jobsite requirements.
Coordinate with planning and scheduling, field material coordinators, jobsite project expeditors, and construction to establish priorities, sequences, and required delivery dates; instruct suppliers accordingly.
Expedite Bechtel engineering reviews, approvals, and returns of engineering data submitted by suppliers.
Participate in pre- and post-award meetings to review schedules and potential issues affecting required shipment dates.
Coordinate shipping arrangements or tracking requests with the project Logistics representative.