Job Title: Senior Material Specialist
Job Purpose (UAE National Only)
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
Activity:
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, 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 through 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 required materials
• Interface with Engineering and QA as necessary to Safety quality materials and resolve non conformance issues if any.
• 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 (SMEs) and analyzing any grounds for rejection.
• Assisting Vendors in raising Bid exception, 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
• Ensures terms and conditions are agreed by the vendors, 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 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.
Responsibilities & Accountabilities (contd.)
• Co-ordinate 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
• Assisting inventory management in analyzing and forecasting material requirement for online and outage workorders
• Identifying all potential suppliers for the materials in the PR based on the various additional details provided in the Material masters
• Proactively identifying potential vendors for the supply of materials installed in BNPP and registering and qualifying them with the support of QA and SRM team
Professional Certifications
Qualifications
Bachelor 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 in energy sector (i.e. Nuclear) Power plant experience
