Job Title:  Material Specialist

Job Purpose

To handle the purchasing of nuclear and non-nuclear related materials, 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

Procurement 
Responsibilities and Accountabilities: 
•    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, and 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 PR, help them in selection of correct parameters in the system.
•    Assist end user in developing the Scope of Work/Material masters by sending RFI’s 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 PR in the system and check the frequency of consumption of materials if there is any potential of creating strategic contracts for materials.
•    Interface with Nuclear Specification Engineering and QA for Safety quality materials & nonconformance issues resolution.
•    Assess quotes ensuring that they are allowable under policies and allocated budgets.
•    Review competitive bids, quotes by evaluating proposals, reviewing with requesters and subject matter experts and analyzing any grounds for rejection.
•     Assisting Vendors in raising Bid exception, Deviation and clarifications and getting them resolved with support of Nuclear Specification Engineering 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.
•    Ensures terms and conditions are agreed by the vendors and none of the clauses should be open.
•    Meet and 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 ensuring that all required information is available.
 

Responsibilities & Accountabilities (contd.)

Professional Certifications

Qualifications

Bachelor degree in Bussiness or  Engineering or equivelant 

Experience

3years relevant experience in procurement/ purchasing

Pref - 

Master’s in Business Administration (MBA), Supply Chain Management, or Engineering
Procurement in energy sector
Power plant experience