Senior Material Specialist - Abu Dhabi

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Job purpose

To handle the purchasing of nuclear and non-nuclear related materials and equipment from initiation to post-award administration for Nawah requirements to ensure that those requirements are met in a safe, compliant, timely, and efficient manner to ensure safe and reliable operation and maintenance of the Nuclear Power Plant (NPP).

Key activities, responsibility & accountability

Activity

Procurement

• Prepare, plan, schedule and process the purchase of spare parts, tools, materials, and equipment, as appropriate and in a timely and cost-effective manner to ensure safe and reliable operation and maintenance of the NPP.
• Support nuclear supplier qualification as required, update the qualified supplier list.
• Understand the specifications and scope of work/material masters, ensure all Quality Assurance (QA), Health and Safety, Engineering, and end user requirements are included.
• Review technical specification for the purchasing materials and equipment.
• Assist end user in creation of purchase requests, help them in selection of correct parameters in the system.
• Assist end user in developing the scope of work/material masters through sending RFIs to the market in order to gather more information about the work.
• Arrange suppliers meeting with the end user and site visits for suppliers, if required.
• Review purchase requests in the system and check the frequency of consumption of materials, if there is any potential of creating strategic contracts for required materials.
• Interface with Engineering and QA as necessary to ensure safety and quality materials and resolve non-conformance issues if any.
• Assess quotes ensuring that they are allowable under policies and allocated budgets.
• Review competitive bids and quotes by evaluating proposals, reviewing with requesters and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and analyzing any grounds for rejection.
• Assist vendors in raising bid exceptions, deviation and clarifications and getting them resolved with support of PE which includes necessary changes in the material master.
• Discuss and resolve issues related to supply of materials with the support of related departments - QA, specification engineering, inventory management, warehouse, logistics, etc.
• Prepare the commercial evaluation.
• Ensure terms and conditions are agreed by the vendors; none of the clauses should be open.
• Meet, negotiate and/or clarify terms with vendors as requested by the management.
• Prepare recommendation for award, with thorough justification to support decision as per the Delegation of Authority (DOA), and ensure that all required information is available.
• Prepare and issue the final purchase order/outline agreement for signature, help other team members in peer review.

• Coordinate with supplier, warehouse and Quality Assurance if any Non Conformity Report (NCR) / Over, Short, Damaged & Discrepant (OSDD) raised after the receipt of material.
• Assist head and other team members in day-to-day operation.
• Work with specification engineering and suppliers to find alternatives for obsolete items.
• Assist inventory management in analyzing and forecasting material requirement for online and outage work orders.
• Identify all potential suppliers for the materials in the purchase request based on the various additional details provided in the material masters.
• Proactively identify potential vendors for the supply of materials installed in BNPP and register and qualify them with the support of QA and SRM team.

Professional certifications

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or Engineering or equivalent Master's in Business Administration (MBA), Supply Chain Management, or Engineering.

Experience

More than 5 to 7 years of procurement experience in the energy sector (i.e. nuclear) power plant experience.

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