European Spares & Tender Engineer in Barry

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Main Responsibilities

• Asset & Materials Standardisation: Develop and implement the Bakelite Europe Asset & Materials Standardisation Strategy to reduce maintenance costs, rationalise assets and materials, and deliver savings for CAPEX projects. This includes analysing inventory usage, managing tender processes and evaluating bids, maintaining the standardisation register for assets and materials, and driving the rationalisation of common assets and materials across European sites.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Act as SME for purchasing and management of assets and spares, providing guidance to ensure cost savings and standardisation at each location.
• Collaboration & Performance: Work closely with site leaders, maintenance and engineering managers, and other operational teams to set and achieve goals, objectives, and performance metrics. Lead the Asset & Materials Standardisation initiatives across Europe, ensuring sites are embedded in the processes to identify opportunities for standardisation and also when they should obtain guidance/instructions on purchases.
• Lead the Tender Process (prepare and submit RFQs) for new equipment and services for CAPEX projects and/or replacement of existing assets, and bulk purchases for maintenance held spares, components and consumables.
• Lead the technical bid analysis and generate the purchase requisition based on bid analysis outcome.
• Partner with Bakelite procurement on high-value procurement items to ensure commercial bid analysis is completed and contracts are agreed where relevant.
• Create the purchase requisitions for standard/low value equipment from trusted vendors.
• Lead and Manage the Standardisation Register for New purchases, whilst updating to include existing assets with the support of the central pillars and maintenance teams located at each site.
• Populate SAP (CMMS) equipment numbers to include manufacturer, model, acquisition date and value, warranty start/end, etc. for new and standardised asset, providing historical data to aid project estimations and selection of fit-for-purpose assets.
• Interact closely with Central Engineering and Maintenance Leads at each site to specify fit-for-purpose assets & materials for all types of applications, identifying reliable/top performers for standardisation across sites.
• Analyse of SAP to understand current inventory across Europe, identify opportunities for centralisation (common held spares), bulk purchasing for cost savings and high usage items for Reliability Improvement reviews.
• Oversee the uploading of Asset and Material data into SAP, manufacturer, model, serial number, etc. Ensuring that all relevant data is captured for future reference and easily accessed by all users of SAP-PM.
• Agreement on key decisions with stakeholders (site maintenance leaders, site leaders, central and site engineering resources).
• Standardization of spares, assets, and consumables.

Required Qualifications

• University degree in an engineering discipline is preferred or the necessary experience and knowledge, with proven track record of tendering for engineering equipment, being able to understand and critique the proposals and feedback.
• Experience in a Procurement/Tender role within the chemical industry or other process industries, with minimum 3-5 years’ experience.
• Must have a minimum 5 years’ experience of tendering for engineering equipment and spares (e.g., vessels, piping, tanks, pumps, motor, etc.).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including effective communication with others for whom English is their second language.
• Experience of using SAP-PM, MM & DMS is desirable.
• Travel for periods within Europe (typical duration 1 week) when business requires.

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Contract

Job function: Engineering and Information Technology

Industries: Chemical Manufacturing

Equal Opportunity, Affidative Action: We are an Equal Opportunity, Affidative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, minority status, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability or any characteristic protected by law.

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