Material Planner

Requisition

• Relocation Authorized:
  National - Family
• Telework Type:
  Part-Time Telework
• Work Location:
  Reston, VA

Bechtel is the licensing, engineering, procurement, and construction partner on Terra Power's Natrium team. Selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program, Natrium is participating in a DOE initiative to re-establish U.S. leadership in nuclear energy that provides matching funding to industry to design and build an operational advanced reactor. Terra Power, a leading advanced generation technology company founded by former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, will be deploying its 345 MWe sodium fast reactor (SFR), called Natrium.

The Natrium plant features an advanced, cost-competitive reactor design that is safer, simpler, easier and less costly to construct, less expensive to operate, and able to provide energy that is competitive with fossil fuels. It also features an innovative molten salt energy storage system designed to be complementary to solar and wind power by evening out the peaks and valleys in production when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing.

With the reactor and energy storage output combined, the plant can produce more than 500 MWe of power. Other Natrium partners include GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Energy Northwest, Pacifi Corp, and Duke Energy, along with support from national laboratories and universities. This DOE Program has the potential to be the largest funding program for advanced nuclear power in U.S. history and will shape the future of nuclear energy for decades.

In this role, you will support material planning for a medium project site. Planning will include implementation of the Material Management Plan. Coordination will include serving as a liaison between Project and Field Procurement and Construction and Client for accurate reporting and tracking of materials. Your efforts will ensure the site receives materials required for work package installation.

This position is designated as part-time telework per our global telework policy and will require at least three days of in-person attendance per week at the assigned office or project. Weekly in-person schedules will be determined by the individual and their supervisor, in consultation with functional or project leadership.

• Monitor data integration execution for consistency with plan and that exchange timing supports project requirements using Material Allocation Planner (MAP) and other DSCS tools.
• Implement the Material Management Plan and coordinate the specification, identification, and quantification of materials with Engineering and Construction during front-end execution activities in the project office.
• Follow a strict set of guidelines to optimize the materials planning work processes for key material commodities.
• Ensure consistent material identification methodology and clearly defined responsibilities between project functions and commodity work processes to enable an efficient and economical Purchase and Supply process.
• Identify any special or potentially lengthy approval requirements that could impact timely issuance of key engineering deliverables driving the materials work process.
• Identify, in coordination with Engineering, critical design drawings and data required from suppliers that may affect timely issuance of other design deliverables or are needed by Construction well ahead of material delivery.
• Assist Engineering in implementing the project's component numbering approaches, as required by sound materials management practices and the project Automation Plan, including tagged materials, bulk materials, and spares.
• Verify that material requisitions clearly identify required pay items and reflect detailed information for storage and control prior to distribution to Construction for installation.
• Assist in identifying out-of-sequence engineering deliverables or lengthy approval requirements that could impact timely issuance of key engineering deliverables that drive the materials work process.
• Maintain direct working relationships with Project Controls, Discipline Engineers, Supply Chain, Automation Support and/or Construction Coordinator to ensure construction personnel are provided with materials to support completion of the construction work.
• Monitor Engineering and Supply Chain deliverable schedules to ensure they will meet the construction schedule.
• Liaise with Engineering and Supply chain to analyze material substitution when originally engineered materials are not available to meet Construction needs.

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 5-8 years of relevant experience or 9-12 years of relevant work experience
• Must possess legal right to work in US without sponsorship.
• Must be able to pass nuclear security screening requirements and obtain/maintain unescorted access to a nuclear power facility.
• Must be able to complete and pass a pre-employment drug…