Supplier Quality Representative

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Project Overview:

Mining and Metals:

Increasing production of critical minerals provides key components of clean energy technologies, from wind turbines to batteries. This shift to clean energy—and the need for commodities—is critical to underpinning the energy transition. At Bechtel, our teams extract these vital resources to support net zero in a way which is more sustainable than ever before. 

Job Summary:

In this role, you will represent Bechtel as the supplier's project quality point of contact. You will perform quality surveillance and hands on inspections to verify that supplier equipment, material, documentation, and personnel activities conform to the requirements of procurement documents. You will work with supplier representatives to ensure requirements are understood and implemented.  

Major Responsibilities:

• On a small sized project, representing Bechtel as the supplier’s prime contact with respect to supplier quality and performs quality surveillance activities defined by the assignment scope to verify that supplier furnished equipment and material conforms to the technical and quality requirements of the procurement documents 
• Reviewing the procurement document requirements with supplier representatives to ensure they are understood and implemented 
• Monitoring supplier personnel activities including witnessing of operations, inspections, examinations, or tests to verify procurement document requirements have been met 
• Performing hands on inspections to verify by re-examination the efficacy of supplier inspection efforts and to provide assurance of the conformance of equipment or materials to procurement document requirements 
• Reviewing supplier generated quality verification documentation to verify conformance to procurement document requirements 
• Rejecting material found nonconforming and collaborates with the supplier and project supplier quality personnel to obtain a course of supplier action which facilitates satisfactory disposition of disclosed non-conformances 
• Releasing conforming material for shipment and notifies other Bechtel functional organizations to assist in coordination of their activities 
• Evaluating supplier’s conformance to specified quality criteria on a specific assignment or group of assignments to provide input to recommendations for placement of future orders 
• Conducting surveys or audits or surveys of suppliers, when assigned 
• Participating as an audit team member or technical resource for nuclear material and/or quality program audits 

Education and Experience Requirements:

Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 5-8 years of relevant experience or 9-12 years of relevant work experience

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Posses Technical knowledge.
• Knowledge of commodities, market, and suppliers in Chile.
• Knowledge and experience in EPC projects of at least 10 years is required.
• Knowledge and handling of the Aconex platform.
• Handling of Windows systems.
• Intermediate level of English. 

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