Senior Expeditor

Wood Group is looking for a Senior Expeditor to support our Willow Project. The successful candidate will be required to be in the office 3 days a week; Mondays and Fridays can be remote. Candidates must be required to work in our West Park office three days a week. International candidates need not apply, no moving allowances will be considered. Candidate must possess previous EPC experience, no candidates will be considered that do not have previous Oil& Gas EPC experience.

This candidate will be responsible for the Expediting of Purchase Orders to ensure delivery on time and within project schedules/purchase order terms.
 

Responsible for coordinating all aspects of desk and field expediting as determined by project strategy, processes and procedures.
 

Ensure personnel carry out expediting activities have a clear understanding of processes and procedures.
 

Manage and monitor the more challenging and complex packages &/or suppliers and identify delivery improvement opportunities by details analysis of supplier project schedules.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• Establishes priorities, assigns workloads and manages expediting team performance
• Review and manage the more difficult and complex aspects of the expediting workload.
• Has detailed understanding of the supplier delivery obligations form the terms and conditions of purchase
• Review and interpret supplier production plans/schedules, identify delivery improvement opportunities and negotiate delivery improvements / slippage recovery plans
• Creation of daily expediting reports in materials management system.
• Expediting of purchase orders daily with priority focus.
• Updating of materials management system with the expediting status of Purchase Orders.
• Continually set expediting follow up dates in materials management system.
• Obtain quotations for field expediting plans and C.V.’s of 3rd party expediting providers.
• Place purchase order for 3rd party expediting services.
• Liaise with field expediting suppliers to co-ordinate expediting visits.
• Receive, review and issue field expediting progress reports and update system accordingly.
• Review expediting reports to confirm status of orders, sub-orders and validate the agreed manufacturing schedules.
• Monitor the progress of receipt and return of supplier documentation.
• Notifying Supply Chain Manager of any potential schedule slippages.
• Negotiate improved delivery / recovery plans where required.
• Visit suppliers on request of the SCM and Material Manager on the project.

• Maintain an auditable file of all relevant purchasing documentation for each purchase order in relevant shared drive / area.
• Demonstrate commitment to safe working practices.
• Understands and lives Woods vision, values and behaviors.
• Understands and works to the Financial Management Framework

Qualifications: 

Qualified to ISCED Level 4/5 (Post-Secondary non-tertiary/Short-Cycle tertiary) 

Knowledge, skills and experience: 

• Minimum 7 years expediting experience demonstrating results 

• Detailed knowledge of Suppliers, Manufacturing Schedules and Expediting. 

• Detailed knowledge of terms and conditions of purchase/supplier obligations 

Experience of: 

• Previous experience in a similar level role 

• Previous use of ERP’s such as Maximo,

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