Lead Expeditor - EOI

Wood is recruiting for a Lead Expeditor to join its UAE Business Unit focusing on expediting of Purchase Orders to ensure delivery on time and within project schedules/purchase order terms for a Major Onshore Brownfield Project in Dubai, UAE.

This role is a full-time office-based role in Dubai, UAE with travel requirement.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Lead Expeditor to join our UAE Business Unit.

• Meaningful and interesting projects Delivered to high profile clients and complex projects in Iraq
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
  ; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice
• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
• Commitment to continued professional development; development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests
• Global connections
  : join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession
• Medical Insurance: Ensures inpatient and outpatient medical care is available should you require treatment.
• Group Life and Personal Accident Insurance: The company provides Life Assurance cover
• The Employee Share Plan: Gives you the opportunity to purchase Wood shares and receive a match from the company
• Long Service Award: Wood values the commitment and loyalty of our people. Celebrating Long Service provides an opportunity for the business to demonstrate their appreciation of the hard work, dedication and many years’ services of our employees at 5-year service milestones

• 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.

• 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 from 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 behaviours.
• Understands and works to the Financial Management Framework

Internal:
Supply Chain Manager, Materials Manager, Procurement teams, Vendor Document Expeditors, Field Expeditors and Quality

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