Communication Coordinator

**Requisition ID: 254541**

**Requisition Posting End Date**:
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; Oil, Gas & Chemicals; and Mining & Metals markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations. Core to Bechtel are our values - ethics, safety, quality, people, culture, relationships, innovation, and sustainability, and our covenants - integrity, respect, collaboration, trust, and delivery. They are what we believe, what customers can expect, and how we deliver.

QB2 is an open pit operation which leaches the ore to produce copper cathodes via processing in an SX-EW plant. It is located in the Tarapaca Region, at an altitude of 4,400 meters above sea level and approximately 240 kilometers southeast of the city of Iquique.

Project considers the construction of a concentrator plant near the mine; a tailings deposit; a pipeline for the transportation of copper concentrate; a desalination plant supplying sea water - which will be sent by an aqueduct to the concentrator and facilities for the reception, filtering and shipment of the concentrate in the Patache Norte sector, south of Iquique.

**SUMMARY**:
Under general supervision, supports issue management, external affairs, communications, or community affairs programs for a business unit, project, or corporate group. Responsibilities may include writing for Bechtel publications and websites, responding to and initiating media inquiries, and supporting events planning. Performs research and other special assignments as assigned.

**JOB DIMENSIONS**:
**A. Supervision Received**
- Reports to and receives operational and functional direction from a Communications Specialist or Communications Manager.

**B. Supervision Exercised**:

- None.

**C. Contacts**:

- Maintains contact with appropriate levels of Bechtel organization, including business unit, service organization, office, and project management in writing stories/articles, supporting external affairs programs, and researching special assignments.
- Maintains contact with media and client representatives to respond to requests for information.
- Maintains contact with community and civic leaders in other companies in the communities of Bechtel’s business to research and initiate media contacts and develop approaches to special projects.

**ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES**:
Performs duties in some or all of the following:
Issue Management

1. Supports liaison with appropriate government, political, media, civic, and industry peers, as well as other interested parties, in the communities of Bechtel business.

Media Relations

2. Responds to routine media inquiries. With supervisor approval, researches issues and responds to more complex media inquiries or initiates media contact.

3. Reviews media, trade, and technical publications for references to Bechtel or topics related to Bechtel interests; administers the maintenance of files of these publications and articles and distribution to appropriate internal audiences.

Communications

4. With appropriate guidance, researches story ideas, conducts interviews with internal and external sources to Bechtel, and writes, edits, and maintains content for a variety of external Bechtel publications.

5. Researches, writes, edits and maintains content for the internal communications program, including face-to-face engagement, electronic news, intranet management, and change management activities.

Corporate Citizenship

6. Supports the administration of Bechtel’s contributions and memberships programs; supports the maintenance of records and reports of political contributions and expenditures, as prescribed by law.

7. Supports the organization’s events planning and management activities.

General

8. Implements and maintains policies, procedures, and processes that ensure the business unit, project, or program’s communication needs are met in a consistent, efficient, and flexible manner. Conforms to Bechtel personnel policies, management instructions, and other relevant company policies and procedures.

9. Supports company initiatives and utilizes appropriate company communication technology tools.

**JOB KNOWLEDGE**:
Broad knowledge of external affairs, media relations, public affairs, communications, and/or community affairs.

Familiarity with current political, civic, business and economic trends.

Demonstrated experience in developing, writing, and researching material for writing assignment