Procurement Specialist

Job overview

Procurement responsibilities

• Procure materials from approved vendors at competitive prices while meeting budget, technical, quality, safety, and delivery requirements.
• Interface with project management, engineering, construction, QA/QC, safety, accounting, warehouse, and vendor teams.
• Understand requisitions, international standards, codes, and regulations for construction-industry materials.
• Assist with procurement strategies and maintain a sound vendor base.
• Survey markets for potential supply sources, price trends, delivery lead times, and manufacturing capacity.
• Evaluate vendor performance and facilitate supplier registration.

RFQ and sourcing

• Review requisitions, issue RFQs, secure compliant offers, coordinate technical bid evaluations, and manage vendor clarifications.
• Perform commercial bid evaluations and select vendors in line with procedure, budget, and delivery requirements.
• Maintain sourcing lists, expedite quotations, prepare recommendations of award, and obtain approvals.

Orders and compliance

• Place purchase orders within approval limits and administer revisions, discrepancies, files, and audit trails.
• Support expediting and resolve commercial clarifications, delivery nonconformance, and OS&D issues.
• Provide procurement inputs for bid pricing and coordinate with the Bids and Proposal team.
• Supervise, direct, train, and coordinate assigned personnel while ensuring procurement-policy compliance.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree.
• Approximately 10 years of relevant experience.
• Broad knowledge of the procurement process.
• Ability to communicate commercial solutions to procurement and non-procurement personnel.
• Understanding of local and regional logistics regulations and agreements.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Access.
• Experience with Smart Plant Materials and HR systems.
• Process-improvement or Six Sigma certificates are a plus.

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