Supply Chain Specialist

Bechtel Corporation•Houston, TX

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Supply Chain Specialist supports material planning and/or material coordination for a large project site. The role implements the Material Management Plan and coordinates between the Project, Field Procurement, Engineering, and Construction to ensure accurate material reporting and that the site receives the materials needed for work-package installation. The position is part of Bechtel’s Manufacturing & Technology Business Unit project designing and building an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) Manufacturing Facility at Generation Park in Houston, Texas. The project serves the life sciences market and is part of a business unit that also works in semiconductor, datacenter, and electric vehicle markets.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or international equivalent and 8–10 years of relevant experience, or 12–14 years of relevant work experience.
Knowledge of supply chain, procurement, materials management, expediting, and logistics principles.
Strong organizational and analytical skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet project deadlines.
Effective written and verbal communication skills and the ability to coordinate across project teams, suppliers, and other stakeholders.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and the ability to learn and effectively use supply chain and project systems.

Responsibilities

Implement the Material Management Plan and coordinate material specification, identification, and quantification with Engineering and Construction during front-end project execution.
Follow established guidelines to optimize material-planning processes for key material commodities.
Ensure consistent material identification methods and clearly defined responsibilities between project functions and commodity work processes to support an efficient and economical purchase and supply process.
Identify special or potentially lengthy approval requirements that could affect timely issuance of key engineering deliverables driving the materials work process.
Coordinate with Engineering to identify critical design drawings and supplier data that could affect other design deliverables or are needed by Construction before material delivery.
Assist Engineering with implementing project component-numbering approaches, including for tagged materials, bulk materials, and spares, in accordance with materials-management practices and the project Automation Plan.
Verify that material requisitions identify required pay items and provide enough detail for materials to be shipped, identified, stored, controlled, and distributed to Construction for installation.
Assist in identifying out-of-sequence engineering deliverables or lengthy approval requirements that could delay key engineering deliverables driving the materials work process.
Maintain working relationships with Project Controls, Discipline Engineers, Supply Chain, Automation Support, and/or the Construction Coordinator to ensure Construction personnel receive materials needed to complete construction work.
Monitor Engineering and Supply Chain deliverable schedules and ensure they meet the construction schedule.