Quality Supervisor

Job Details

• Relocation Authorized:
  International – Single
• Telework Type:
  Full-Time Office/Project
• Work Location:
  
  Thacker Pass, NV
• Salary Range: $105,060 – $182,670 annually (determined by function, education, experience, and qualifications of the applicant.)

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 of 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.

In this role, you will apply quality methodologies to lead complex engineering project activities. You will provide oversight of design verification, and develop quality management system tools, metrics, and goals. You will lead in identifying and assessing risks, evaluating corrective actions, and monitoring the quality program. Your work will contribute to project success by mitigating risk and resolving issues.

• Develops, maintains, and verifies implementation of the project quality assurance program/plan for an assigned project.
• Directs quality activities and their effective implementation, communicating with engineering, commercial, construction, administrative services, and other project personnel to ensure management goals and objectives are met.
• Creates quality‑related procedures to ensure compliance with the quality program/plan.
• Ensures regulatory requirements are incorporated into the quality program/plan.

• Responsible for quality activities with some complexity or impact on a small project/function
• Participates in specific quality‑related assignments
• Verifies adequate translation of requirements into products and services using applicable tools
• Coordinates targeted independent assessments to enable the timely mitigation of technical and project management risks
• Identifies risk by providing independent technical analysis, guidance, and recommendations to GBU/project leadership
• Applies quality engineering principles to design reviews, analyses, quality program plans, and other documentation
• Evaluates the effectiveness of corrective actions and process improvement activities
• Defines and implements quality management system tools and procedures to support work processes

• Grade 26:
  Requires bachelor’s degree (or international equivalent) and 8‑10 years of relevant experience or 12‑14 years of relevant work experience
• Grade 27:
  Requires bachelor’s degree (or international equivalent) and 10‑13 years of relevant experience or 14‑17 years of relevant work experience

• Typically requires bachelor’s degree (or international equivalent) and 10‑13 years of relevant experience or 14‑17 years of relevant work experience
• Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of variable factors
• Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• Technical knowledge in the application of engineering, environmental science, procurement, construction, testing, operations, or decommissioning practices sufficient to comprehend specified…