Principal Buyer - Chennai, India - Wood Plc

Wood Plc

Verified Company

Chennai, India

6 days ago

Posted by:

Deepika Kaur

beBee Recuiter

Description

Overview / Responsibilities:
Wood is currently recruiting for a Principal Buyer with extensive experience in the oil and gas petrochemical industry.

Responsible for supporting the objectives of the Health, Safety, Security, Environmental and Quality Policy and Information Security Management Policy by adhering to applicable Procedures and Work Instructions while fulfilling of duties.
General
Assume the duties of Project Procurement Manager or Manager Purchasing or Manager Procurement when so directed.
Comply with, make known to supervised personnel and check their compliance with the following, as applicable:
Procurement Procedures and Work Instructions.
Licensors', Clients', and Projects Execution Centre (India) Secrecy Agreements.
Project Procurement Execution Plan
Project Supplier Lists.
Check that supervised personnel carry out their assigned duties in accordance with their job description.
Prepare sections of project Supplier Lists relative to commodity knowledge and review with Project Procurement Manager and / or Manager Purchasing before issue.
Develop contacts with all levels of Suppliers' personnel. Maintain respect of Suppliers and their representatives by adherence to code of conduct and ethics, corporate policies, procedures and work instructions.
When requested by Manager Purchasing, attend monthly cross project commodity meetings.
Maintain close awareness of the supply situation including area sources of supply, material availability and current delivery. Maintain contact with sources of supply. Investigate and develop new sources of supply and advise Manager Purchasing.
Keep respective Project Procurement Manager and / or Manager Purchasing and supervised personnel advised of the availability of new or improved materials.
Advise Manager Purchasing of any updates needed to corporate supplier databases and action updates when so requested.
When requested contribute to current and projected price and delivery trends.
Ensure that assigned purchasing personnel operate the correct spare parts procedure and in particular check that:
quotations are submitted on the correct forms and include all back-up information.

- quotations are transmitted through the person responsible for spare parts Co-ordination for all necessary approvals.

Orders for spare parts are placed on the basis of the approved recommended spare parts list, and are expedited, inspected and released for shipment, as applicable.
Carry out Purchasing Quality Audits on performance of other purchasing personnel, when instructed.
Be aware of workload, of assigned personnel. Allocate work to supervised personnel.
Advise Project Procurement Manager(s) of progress of work for project reporting purposes.
Assist in performance appraisal of supervised personnel.
Assist Manager Purchasing in identifying the skill gap of the supervised personnel and the training needs. Ensure proper training is given as agreed.
Ensure that the contents and objectives of the Health, Safety, Security, Environmental and Quality Policy and the Information Security Policy are implemented and understood by the supervised staff.
Pre Order
Ensure that supervised personnel, as appropriate by their respective job descriptions:
Prepare and issue Procurement Plans and obtain necessary approvals.
Prepare and issue quotation requests; progress, check and evaluate quotations.
Agree the requirement and submittal dates for the following:
critical supplier data

- supplier drawings
- other supplier documents

Check details of the data, drawings and documentation to be submitted by the supplier is recorded on quotation summary and purchase order.
Prepare quotation summaries, quotation variation summaries and order variation summaries and make recommendations.
Meet project schedule for procurement deliverables.
Recommended Supplier's final price on quotation summaries is under budget and delivery is within required on site dates.
Check quotation summaries prepared by assigned personnel prior to submission to Project Procurement Manager.
Attend/or instruct capable supervised personnel to attend, preorder meetings with Suppliers. Notes of meetings issued in accordance with Project distribution matrix.
Check that purchase orders are prepared as per the approved quotation summaries.
Check quotation variation summaries and order variation summaries prepared by assigned personnel prior to submission to Project Procurement Manager.
Review and countersign purchase orders and amendments prepared by assigned personnel.
Post Order
Ensure that assigned personnel:
Meet project schedule for procurement deliverables.
Input all progress data into Material Control System and ensure that these are kept up to date.
Progress and expedite all equipment and material on a regular time basis in accordance with approved project procedures.
Issue expediting requests and liaise with the Expediting Group for the ex