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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bechtel Corporation is a global leader in infrastructure and project management, having completed over 25,000 projects since 1898. The Expeditor role involves planning, staffing, and budgeting for project expediting operations, ensuring timely supplier engagement and monitoring production schedules to meet project requirements.


Responsibilities

  • 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

Skills

  • Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 5-8 years of relevant experience or 9-12 years of relevant work experience
  • Ability to work with engineering, construction and the other procurement team members
  • Good understanding of production methods and stays abreast of all supplier fabrication steps
  • Provides early warning to the Expediting Supervisor of supplier deficiencies or schedule slippage
  • Familiar with expediting points of order for pre-award and post-award meetings with suppliers
  • Skilled in the use of Bechtel Procurement System (BPS) and the Supplier Performance Database (SPD) functions

Benefits

  • Robust benefits to ensure our people thrive
  • Advancing careers
  • Delivering programs to enhance our culture
  • Providing time to recharge

Company Overview

  • Bechtel is a construction company that offers engineering, construction, and project management solutions to its customers. It was founded in 1898, and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.bechtel.com.

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