Material Specialist

ENEC Operations; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the nuclear energy sector is seeking a Procurement Specialist to oversee purchasing activities for materials and equipment. This role involves managing supplier qualifications, negotiating contracts, and ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards, offering a dynamic opportunity to contribute to the operational efficiency of a nuclear power plant.

Qualifications

• 3 years relevant experience in procurement/purchasing.
• Preferable experience in energy sector and power plants.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and process purchases of spare parts and equipment.
• Support supplier qualification and manage procurement documentation.
• Review and negotiate contracts with vendors.

Skills

Negotiation

Supplier qualification

Material specification understanding

Education

Bachelor degree in Business or Engineering

Master's in Business Administration (MBA), Supply Chain Management, or Engineering

Job description

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