Lead Materials Specialist - Texas / New Mexico
Chevron
- Location
- Midland, Texas, United States of America
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Senior
- H-1B history
- 4 approvals (FY2023)
- Posted
- Aug 31, 2026
Skills
About this role
Total Number of Openings 1 Manages incoming goods and materials (e.g. inspection, quality control, and documentation) and any returns. Ensures that materials are unloaded/loaded, stored, and moved safely. Ensures proper identification, storage, and preservation of materials under control or oversight by Company. Maintains appropriate levels of inventory, including revolving stock and critical spares. Documents material quantities and descriptions whether stock or transit, including cycle counting and related physical-to-record reconciliation as required by corporate standards. Supports medium sized clients/customers and makes significant contributions to more complex projects under periodic supervision. General knowledge of the work function and Chevron’s practices. Chevron is accepting online applications for the position Lead Materials Specialist - Texas / New Mexico through September 14, 2026, at 11:59 p.m The Lead Materials Specialist - Texas/New Mexico Regions will provide expertise in managing the safe receipt, preservation, storage, staging, movement, and tracking of goods and materials in accordance with company requirements. This role supports a regional warehouse and field-facing materials network across Texas and New Mexico, which roll under the Shale & Tight Business (S&TB), and will report to the Team Lead, Materials Management for S&TB. The role is accountable for overseeing third-party warehouse operations, driving operational performance, and ensuring materials management and warehouse operations processes are executed consistently, safely, efficiently, and in a compliant manner. The role will require excellent stakeholder management, collaborative partnership skills, and strong teaming across regional operations, internal support functions, and third-party warehouse partners. Provide end-to-end materials management oversight in support of Texas/New Mexico operations within the Shale & Tight Business. This important role supports materials management process fluency and advisement to cross-functional stakeholder groups including Field Execution, Operations, Technical Teams, Central Maintenance, Facilities Engineering, and Construction. The role requires a strong focus on safety, material planning, inventory and critical parts management, supplier relations, third-party warehouse operations performance, and reliable execution through SAP S/4HANA. Supports stakeholders and plays a key role in providing related guidance, developing material strategies, and implementing process improvements that enable cost-effective and reliable supply to end users. This includes leveraging data and analytics to identify performance trends, generate actionable insights, drive business value, improve 3P warehouse performance, and provide strategic support to optimize materials processes in collaboration with category management, procurement, logistics, and operations partners. Monitor and influence third-party warehouse performance through KPI review, issue escalation, corrective action tracking, and regular engagement with warehouse leadership and regional stakeholders. Provide day-to-day functional oversight of third-party warehouse execution, including performance routines, escalation management, compliance expectations, and continuous improvement follow-through. Support optimal inventory availability, monitor inventory turns, action slow-moving and obsolete items, and mitigate stock-out scenarios. Requires strong SAP S/4HANA proficiency, sound data discipline, collaboration with Maintenance & Operations stakeholders, coordination with SCM colleagues, and close partnership with third-party warehouse providers to drive performance and sustain process compliance. Support continuous improvement, simplification, and strategic initiatives/projects. Partner with Materials Management colleagues across other S&TB regions, asset classes, the Procurement Materials Management (PMM) Centre of Excellence, and the Permian third-party