Applied Concrete Technology Coordinator

Bechtel Corporation; Sugar Land (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

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Job summary

Bechtel Corporation in Sugar Land, TX is seeking a seasoned professional to coordinate concrete production and placement activities on complex projects. You will serve as the field link among construction, engineering, quality, batch plant personnel, suppliers, and subcontractors, providing hands-on technical support for batch plant operations.

The role requires a bachelor’s degree and 5–12 years of relevant experience, with strong knowledge of batch plant systems, materials, testing, and

Qualifications

• Requires bachelor’s degree (or international equivalent) and 5–8 years of relevant experience or 9–12 years of relevant work experience.
• Experience with batch plant commissioning, calibration, moisture correction, admixture systems, temperature control, and trial batching.
• Experience with pumped, high-volume, continuous, mass concrete, or technically complex placements.

Responsibilities

• Plans concrete placements: volume, production rate, truck cycle time, pump setup, sequence, testing, curing.
• Coordinates daily/weekly concrete demand with construction, batch plants, suppliers, and testing personnel.
• Verifies batch plant readiness including materials, admixtures, calibrations, mixing, and records.
• Supports batch plant installation, commissioning, startup, and readiness reviews.
• Reviews mix designs for strength, workability, and placement suitability.
• Coordinates pump selection, setup, routing, and delivery sequence.
• Monitors placements and resolves batching, delivery, and finishing issues.
• Coordinates pre-placement inspections, sampling, testing, and strength tracking.
• Reviews drawings, specifications, and vendor data affecting concrete work.
• Provides concrete-related input to estimates, schedules, budgets, and logistics.
• Tracks field issues and documents corrective actions and lessons learned.
• Promotes safe batching, truck movement, and dust-control practices.
• Supports mass concrete and other technically demanding placements.

Skills

ACI/NRMCA certification

Batch plant operations

Quality coordination

Root-cause analysis

Concrete materials knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree (or international equivalent)

Tools

MS Office

Spreadsheet software

Document-control systems

Job description

• Relocation Authorized: National - Single
• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project

Requisition ID: 300441

• Relocation Authorized: National - Single
• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project
• Work Location: Sugar Land, TX

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Job Summary

Coordinates concrete production and placement activities to improve site efficiency, quality, and schedule performance. Serves as the field link among construction, engineering, quality, batch plant personnel, suppliers, testing agencies, and subcontractors. Provides technical support for batch plant operations, mix performance, delivery, pumping, placement, testing, curing, and field troubleshooting.

Major Responsibilities

• Plans concrete placements, including volume, production rate, access, truck cycle time, pump setup, sequence, testing, curing, washout, and contingencies.
• Coordinates daily and weekly concrete demand with construction, batch plants, suppliers, testing personnel, pump providers, and project controls.
• Verifies batch plant readiness, including materials, moisture correction, admixture dispensing, calibrations, batching tolerances, mixing, temperature control, utilities, maintenance, and production records.
• Supports batch plant installation, commissioning, trial batching, startup, and operational-readiness reviews.
• Reviews mix designs for strength, workability, pumpability, set time, temperature, air content, segregation resistance, finishability, and placement suitability.
• Coordinates pump selection and setup, routing, delivery sequence, placing rate, communications, cleanout, and backup plans.
• Monitors placements and resolves issues involving batching, delivery, pumping, workability, temperature, consolidation, finishing, curing, interruptions, rejected loads, and nonconforming concrete.
• Coordinates pre-placement inspections, sampling, testing, specimen preparation, strength tracking, acceptance requirements, and quality records.
• Reviews drawings, specifications, subcontracts, schedules, technical submittals, inspection reports, and vendor data affecting concrete work.
• Provides concrete-related input to estimates, schedules, budgets, requisitions, equipment and staffing plans, logistics studies, and supplier evaluations.
• Coordinates field issue resolution and documents decisions, corrective actions, changes, and lessons learned.
• Promotes safe and environmentally responsible batching, truck movement, pumping, material handling, washout, wastewater, and dust-control practices.
• Tracks placement volume, production rate, truck turnaround, rejected loads, interruptions, testing compliance, defects, rework, and schedule impacts.
• Supports mass concrete, structural concrete, foundations, slabs, walls, precast, and other technically demanding placements.

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

• ACI, NRMCA, batch plant operator, concrete inspection, or comparable field certification.
• Experience with batch plant commissioning, calibration, moisture correction, admixture systems, temperature control, and trial batching.
• Experience with pumped, high-volume, continuous, mass concrete, or technically complex placements.
• Experience using production data and root-cause analysis to reduce defects, rework, interruptions, and delays.
• Concrete materials, mix designs, batching, delivery, pumping, placement, finishing, curing, testing, and acceptance.
• Batch plants, aggregate systems, silos, mixers, scales, water and temperature-control systems, admixture systems, trucks, pumps, pipelines, and placing equipment.
• Production rates, haul cycles, set time, cold-joint risk, temperature effects, pumpability, reinforcement congestion, and constructability.
• Applicable ACI and ASTM requirements, project specifications, inspection and test plans, and concrete test methods.
• Drawings, specifications, schedules, submittals, batch tickets, calibration reports, test reports, and nonconformance records.
• Clear field coordination, sound judgment, written reporting, and standard office, spreadsheet, scheduling, and document-control applications.

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