Environmental, Safety and Health Manager

Requisition ID: 275631 

•  Relocation Authorized: International - Family 
• Telework Type: Part-Time Telework 
• Work Location: Thacker Pass,NV 

Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.

 

Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers’ objectives to create a lasting positive impact. We serve the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; Mining & Metals, and the Manufacturing and Technology markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations.

 

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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 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.

 

Poisition Summary

Develops, integrates and implements all aspects of project-related Environmental, Safety, and Health (ES&H) (including medical and industrial hygiene), processes, plans, procedures, systems, methods and policies critical to the success of ES&H. Ensures that complex requirements are properly interpreted by evaluating and applying appropriate ES&H principles and formulating scopes of work, plans, and methodologies suitable for achieving and maintaining compliance with ES&H requirements applicable to the assigned project. Provides technical assistance and supervisory direction to other environmental, safety and/or health project personnel. Identifies resources needed to implement the ES&H programs/plans. 

 

Job Dimensions

A. Supervision Received

• Receives technical and administrative supervision from the global business unit (GBU) ES&H Manager. Receives supervision and work assignments from the Project Manager or Construction Manager.

B. Supervision Exercised

• Directly supervises other environmental, safety, and/or health personnel assigned to the project.

• Provides technical oversight and direction to vendors and/or contractors/subcontractors. May also supervise contract ES&H personnel.

C. Contacts

• Frequently interacts and partners with direct reports, customers, and/or functional peer group managers, normally involving matters between functional areas, other company divisions or units, or customers and the company.

• Often must lead a cooperative effort among members of a project team.

• Maintains relationships with internal organizations, customers, and contractor/subcontractor representatives to coordinate technical/scientific issues, new technologies, and integration of ES&H functional responsibilities into project design specifications, construction plans and schedules, and subcontractor bid packages.

• Maintains contact, as appropriate, with government regulatory and resource agencies to obtain current information on new regulations, program initiatives, and technical requirements and standards as they apply to the project.

• Maintains frequent communications with representatives of Bechtel or client insurance brokers/carriers to ob