Lead Turnover Coordinator

Project Overview

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, one hour northwest of Winnemucca, Nevada and three 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.

Assigned to the project team as a representative of the Construction functional group, the Lead Turnover Coordinator is responsible for coordinating between Construction, Startup, Subcontractors, and the Customer to ensure that the area and system turnover logic is communicated to construction and coordinating walkdowns of the various areas and startup systems to identify remaining work. The Lead Turnover Coordinator will lead the day‑to‑day activities of a team of technical and administrative personnel, oversee the punch listing program for systems and area turnovers, and participate in expediting the completion of the remaining work.

The Lead Turnover Coordinator will be responsible for ensuring completions tracking programs are up to date for their teams' scope and for assuring that all applicable documentation and inspection forms are complete, compiled and presented for turnover.

• Develop firm understanding of system and area scoping and drawings required for package development.
• Build system and area turnover packages both digitally and physically for turnover to startup and client.
• Schedule system and area walkdowns and coordinate with construction, startup, and the client as applicable.
• Prepare system and area walkdown packages.
• Lead system and area walkdowns.
• Scribe all punch list items that arise on walkdowns for input into the punch list tracking system.
• Input punch list items and maintain punch list tracking system.
• Leverage data and create reporting for strategy development and decision making.
• Coordinate with construction manager on priorities and strategies for subcontracted work.
• Schedule walkdowns for the scope.
• Validate punch list for the scope.
• Ensure inspection records are completed and submitted for the scope.
• Coordinate with direct hire supervision.

• Requires bachelor’s degree and 8–10 years of relevant experience or 12–14 years of relevant work experience.

• Previous experience in field engineering or construction supervision.
• Previous experience in a leadership role.
• Demonstrated ability to oversee, prioritize, and execute multiple assignments involving multiple internal and external organizations.
• Strong communication skills.
• Working knowledge of P&IDs, single line diagrams, and civil/structural drawings.
• Industrial construction experience and experience with LNG facility preferred.
• Computer literate in word processing, spreadsheet, and database applications.
• Familiarity with Teamworks and Setroute a plus.

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