Industrial Relations Manager

Requisition ID: 283055 

•  Relocation Authorized: National - Family 
• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project 
• Work Location: Portland, TX 

 

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Project Overview:

The Cheniere Corpus Christi Liquefaction (CCL) Project is a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export facility located on the north shore of Corpus Christi Bay in Gregory, Texas. The 1,000+ acre facility started bulk early works in July 2015 as the first greenfield export facility in the United States. Bechtel has successfully and safely completed construction and it now consists of three operating Trains with an LNG production capacity of approximately 15 million tons per year (MTPA), three LNG storage tanks with combined capacity of 480,000 cubic meters of LNG, 2 Jetty superstructures that can accommodate the world’s largest vessels, and dozens of associated buildings and utilities.

Corpus Christi Liquefaction Project Stage 3 (CCL3) is a new phase at the existing CCL facility and will consist of seven midscale liquefaction trains with an LNG production capacity of approximately 10 MTPA, and associated infrastructure including utilities. CCL3 will perform all this work predominantly on a direct hire basis with support from only a few specialty and service subcontractors.

 

Job Summary:

In this role, you will lead a team and manage daily industrial relations activities on construction project, providing advice in the resolution of employee disputes, project workforce effectiveness.  The Deputy Industrial Relations Manager is responsible to provide leadership support under supervision of the Project Industrial Relations manager. Will lead project teams in the establishment, implementation and administration of Project Industrial Relations systems & procedures, in accordance with the Project’s Industrial Relations Execution Strategy.

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Major Responsibilities:

• Monitors daily Industrial Relations activities on major LNG project.
• Provides advice and guidance to Industrial Relations team in the resolution of employee disputes, employment administration, and IR Work activities.
• At times may represent Bechtel in external meetings with community, internally with construction management and with client representatives.
• Supervises the preparation of information and data to be discussed at these site meetings which can include: local area surveys on manual workforce availability, productivity and compensation, available employment trends at site (hiring/terminations, work rule violations).
• Supervises the development and implementation of process improvement initiatives with construction management.
• Strong understanding of policies and practices and its application at project.
• Possesses proficiency in the requisition tracking programs and employee data programs.
• Monitors existing IR/WFS programs to ensure desired objectives and/or results are being achieved.
• Leads complex craf