Field Expediting Supervisor

In this role, you will supervise project expediting activities and lead and train a team to ensure timely delivery of supplier material and equipment to support the project schedule. You will review staffing, workloads, budgets, production schedules, and progress reports and forecast future staffing needs. Your recommendations will optimize operations and resource allocation, so project requirements are met.

Project Overview: Bechtel's Manufacturing and Technology (M&T) Business Unit is designing, building and commissioning a semiconductor fab in Clay, NY. M&T is an exciting and growing business unit that serves customers in the semiconductor, datacenter, life sciences, and electric vehicle markets. M&T strives to exceed our customer objectives through utilizing our agility, innovative technologies, and world class talent. M&T solves the industry's toughest challenges, building both our company and the world for the future.

Major Responsibilities:

• Supervises expediting activities on a small to medium size project
• Directs activities of the project expeditors in ensuring delivery of supplier material, equipment, and technical data to support project schedule
• Monitors suppliers' performance and provides advice or direction to ensure compliance with policy, procedure, or guidelines
• Coordinates actions with global business unit expediting and, where necessary, requests senior Supply Chain management aid to resolve the problems
• Forecasts project staffing requirements and coordinates personnel assignments to meet these needs
• Reviews material status reports, critical items reports, updates Bechtel's Digital Supply Chain System (DSCS) and Supplier Performance Database (SPD) data to ensure that adequate accurate information is assembled and presented to the assigned project
• Represents Expediting in project team meetings
• Contacts suppliers to obtain timely submission of engineering data and to follow-up on material acquisition, production progress, and shipment
• Evaluates production schedules and progress reports from suppliers to determine if suppliers' programs and work progress meet jobsite requirements
• Coordinates with planning and scheduling, field material coordinators, or jobsite project expeditors and construction to establish priorities, sequences, and required delivery dates and instructs suppliers accordingly
• Expedites Bechtel engineering for the timely review, approval and return of engineering data submitted by suppliers
• Participates in pre- and post-award meetings to review and discuss schedules and potential problem areas that may impact required delivery dates
• Coordinates shipping arrangements or tracking requests with the project Logistics representative

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:

• Participates in the planning, staffing, and budgeting of project and area expediting operations for small sized projects
• Distributes workload to assigned project expeditors according to the experience and ability of the expeditor, the degree of complexity of the work and the urgency of the need for action
• Contacts suppliers to obtain timely submission of engineering data, and to follow-up on material acquisition, production progress and shipment
• Evaluates production schedules and progress reports from suppliers to determine if suppliers' programs and work progress meet jobsite requirements
• Coordinates with planning and scheduling, field material coordinators or jobsite project expeditors and construction to establish priorities, sequences, and required delivery dates and instructs suppliers accordingly
• Expedites Bechtel engineering for the timely review, approval, and return of engineering data submitted by suppliers
• Participates in pre- and post-award meetings to review and discuss schedules and potential problem areas that may impact required shipment dates
• Coordinates shipping arrangements or tracking requests with the project Logistics representative

Bechtel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, disability, citizenship status (except as authorized by law), protected veteran status, genetic information, and any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.