Senior Project Expeditor

Senior Project Expeditor

Job Description:

A Petroleum Oil company in Abu Dhabi is currently looking to hire this role for their projects locally as well as overseas. This is a direct hire position where this role as a Senior Expeditor is responsible for high value and complexity tasks.

Responsibilities

• Carry out all expediting activities for material and equipment.
• Manage issues and challenges relating to material and equipment to come out solutions and coordinate with vendors to solve the problems.
• Ensure vendors' Bill of Materials are submitted on time.
• Issue critical item reports on a weekly basis to summarize activities and status of orders.
• Follow up with Company and vendors' engineering diligently to resolve issues.
• Alert management if there are any labour issues in plants.
• Check drawings, engineering documents and other non-material requirements that are necessary for the project to proceed with detailed engineering.
• Perform field expediting.
• Issue area assignments in order to follow or spot check certain materials.
• Review area expediting reports for content, completeness, and appropriateness and ensure follow-up action on items.
• Initiate milestone completion certificate for progress and final payments.
• Maintain an effective working relationship with all members in the company and interfacing organizations.
• Ensure that the vendor's schedule includes time for disassembly, cleaning, and preparation for shipment.
• Participate in the overall vendor performance evaluation.
• Achieve the target within the given time.
• Ability to prioritize independently.
• Able to handle multi-tasking and work in a fast-paced office setting.
• Evaluate production schedules and progress reports from suppliers to determine if their programs and work progress meet job site requirements.
• Maintain project schedule by monitoring project progress; coordinating activities; resolving problems.
• Prepare supplier evaluation reports for input into the Suppliers Information System.

Requirements

• Degree in Engineering.
• MUST have experience working in EPC O&G industrial before.
• Minimum 6 years overall experience in the oil & gas industry holding a similar role, preferably in an MNC environment.
• Familiar with project equipment/material for major components/usage.
• Capability in identifying fabrication bottlenecks and programs analysis to provide input and recommendation for better performance, knowledge and experience in overall materials procurement aspects, fabrication programs interpretation and analysis, progress verification and reporting, awareness to some familiarity with other fabrication aspects such as vendor's quality surveillance and shipping major related procedures and methods for projects in oil & gas chemical industries with multi interfaces with engineering and other involved disciplines.
• Must be an excellent face-to-face and telephone communicator.
• Work efficiently under pressure.
• Ability to prioritize independently.
• Strong written and oral interpersonal communication skills with the ability to build and supervise established procedures.
• Ability to achieve the target within the given time.
• Decisive, perceptive, dependable in carrying out the area assignments, responsive, flexible, analytical and organized with a systematic work approach.
• Familiar with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
• CANDIDATES WITH LESS THAN 6 YEARS EXPERIENCE CAN BE CONSIDERED FOR A JUNIOR POSITION.