Onsite Falsework Coordinator
Requisition ID: 300502 | Location: Clay, NY | Schedule: Full-Time Office/Project Work | Salary Range: $78,000 – $119,000 annually (based on market data; final offer determined by education, experience, and qualifications)
About the role
Since 1898, Bechtel has helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents, creating jobs, growing economies, improving infrastructure resiliency, increasing access to energy and vital services, and making the world a safer, cleaner place. We serve the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; Mining & Metals; and Manufacturing and Technology markets, with services spanning from initial planning and investment through start-up and operations.
The Onsite Falsework Coordinator supports the project scaffold and formwork management program for Bechtel Equipment Operations (BEO). Reporting directly to the Project Site Manager’s designee and functionally to the BEO Yard Operations Supervisor, the coordinator manages material transactions, inventory records, requisitions, and reporting for BEO-owned scaffold and formwork assets at the project site. The coordinator works with project supervision, field engineering, procurement, warehouse and yard personnel, suppliers, and BEO teams to support timely material availability and safe, efficient asset use. Activities include coordinating handling, maintenance, repair, and returns in accordance with BEO, project, and manufacturer requirements. The primary responsibility is to ensure the project always has job-ready scaffolding and formwork when needed to support construction.
- Reports operationally to the BEO Yard Operations Supervisor or designated Site Manager representative
- Reports functionally through BEO Project Operations
- Provides work direction to assigned scaffold and formwork yard personnel within the designated supervisor’s direction
Responsibilities
- Follow applicable safety and material-handling requirements, participate in daily safe work planning, and support a clean, secure scaffold and formwork yard
- Coordinate receiving, inspection, storage, issue, return, transfer, redistribution, and shipment of scaffold and formwork materials, including inbound and outbound truck scheduling to reduce delays
- Maintain accurate inventory records and auditable transactions in approved BEO and project systems
- Perform physical inventories, cycle counts, and reconciliations; investigate discrepancies and promptly report lost, damaged, unusable, excess, short, or incorrectly received material
- Coordinate material identification, staging, racking, stacking, and storage in accordance with BEO and manufacturer requirements
- Monitor material quantities, condition, location, utilization, and upcoming demand to support availability and accountability
- Assist with requisitions for scaffold, formwork, accessories, and consumables, and maintain applicable minimum and maximum stock levels
- Identify opportunities to redistribute, reuse, exchange, or return excess or underutilized material to reduce cost, including off-rent opportunities where rental arrangements apply
- Prepare required reports on material movements, inventory, utilization, loss and damage, and demand fulfillment, including tonnage, square footage, backlog, and lead time as applicable
- Use approved inventory, request, planning, design, and reporting tools as applicable: ToolHound, RAFS, HiVis, CountThings, FormWorX, FormQuest, DOKA CAD, Trimble Connect, Scaffold Designer Avontus, Power BI, and DSCS
- Coordinate material priorities, constraints, discrepancies, and schedule risks with project and BEO stakeholders
- Provide process guidance and on-the-job training to assigned yard personnel, and support site-specific work instructions
- Participate in project planning meetings to align material availability with upcoming work
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (or international equivalent) and 2–5 years of relevant experience, or 6–9 years of relevant work experience
- Relevant experience in material control, warehousing, scaffold or formwork operations, construction logistics, or a related field
- Experience maintaining accurate inventory or material-control records in a construction, industrial, warehouse, or equipment environment
- Experience with computerized inventory or material management systems
- Ability to work full-time at a project site and support project schedules and operational requirements
- Ability to comply with project access, safety, training, and qualification requirements
- Ability to perform onsite yard coordination activities, including outdoor monitoring in varying weather conditions and movement through industrial work areas
Skills
- Knowledge of scaffold or formwork components, accessories, consumables, handling, and storage, with inventory experience involving AT-PAC Ringlock or Doka systems
- Experience with ToolHound and one or more scaffold or formwork request, planning, design, reporting, or inventory platforms
- Experience coordinating craft or warehouse personnel and providing on-the-job training
- Familiarity with cycle counting, loss and damage reporting, utilization reporting, minimum and maximum stock controls, requisitioning, and return or off-rent processes
- Understanding of commercial responsibilities, rental terms, loss and damage provisions, and cost-control principles
- Preferred but not required: prior experience with BEO, Bechtel project material control, or site logistics processes
Benefits
Bechtel offers a competitive total rewards package that includes:
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
- Optional disability and supplemental insurance options
- Generous paid time off (160 hours annually, accrued at 6.16 hours per pay period)
- Nine paid holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Discretionary bonuses
- Well-designed 401(k) plan with matching and profit-sharing components