Procurement Officer

Engage Marine; Western Australia; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Wellbeing leave days

Opportunity to shape procurement at a

Job summary

Engage Marine is seeking a proactive Procurement Specialist to coordinate purchasing across our vessel and shore teams across Australia. You will help implement a centralized procurement process, manage supplier relationships, and negotiate terms to deliver cost-effective, reliable supply for operations.

You'll work with technical teams to specify requirements, assess quotations, and raise purchase orders within approved budgets.

Qualifications

• Experience in procurement or purchasing within marine, engineering, logistics or heavy industry.
• Strong sourcing, negotiation and supplier management skills.
• Experience purchasing technical parts and services with engineers.
• Proficient with ERP systems and Excel; strong record-keeping.
• Understanding of inventory management and freight coordination.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate purchasing across locations and consolidate requirements.
• Identify savings via supplier agreements, discounts and rebates.
• Maintain supplier relationships and monitor performance.
• Assess quotations and raise purchase orders within budgets.
• Manage spares, stock levels, transfers and deliveries with teams.
• Develop centralized procurement processes and systems.
• Resolve discrepancies with Accounts Payable and report savings.

Skills

Procurement

Marine industry

Supplier management

Negotiation

Excel

ERP systems

Inventory management

Education

Procurement qualification

Tools

ERP systems

Microsoft Excel

Job description

About The Business

Engage Marine is an Australian port operations provider delivering specialised marine services across a range of industries. Headquartered in Perth, Western Australia, we have operational bases across the country, including Dampier, Cape Lambert, Carnarvon, Wyndham, Whyalla, Abbot Point, Port Latta, Sydney and Geelong.

About The Role

Reporting to the CFO, you will coordinate purchasing and supplier activities to support our vessel and shore teams across Australia. You will help ensure operational requirements are met safely, on time and cost-effectively across our sites. This role combines day-to-day purchasing with the opportunity to develop a consistent, centralised procurement process across the business.

• Coordinating purchasing across all locations, consolidating common requirements while responding to individual vessel and port needs.
• Identifying savings through consolidated purchasing, supplier agreements, discounts and rebates.
• Maintaining supplier relationships, monitoring pricing, quality and delivery performance, and resolving supply issues, returns and warranty claims.
• Assessing quotations, negotiating pricing and delivery terms, and raising purchase orders within approved budgets and authority.
• Working with vessel and shore teams to manage critical spares, stock levels, transfers and deliveries.
• Developing consistent procurement processes and supporting teams in using purchasing procedures and systems.
• Resolving purchasing and invoice discrepancies with local teams and Accounts Payable, and reporting on expenditure, outstanding orders and savings.

About You

You bring a responsive, service focused approach and can balance urgent operational demands with sound purchasing practices. You build effective relationships with suppliers and colleagues and understand the importance of reliable supply to operational continuity.

You Will Ideally Have

• Experience in procurement or purchasing within marine, engineering, logistics, heavy industry or a similar operational environment.
• Strong sourcing, negotiation and supplier management skills.
• Experience purchasing technical parts, equipment and services, with the ability to work with technical specialists to confirm requirements.
• Confidence using purchasing or ERP systems and Microsoft Excel, with strong attention to record accuracy.
• An understanding of inventory management, freight coordination and purchase order and invoice reconciliation.
• Clear communication skills and a collaborative approach to supporting geographically dispersed teams.

Relevant qualifications in procurement, supply chain or business, and experience supporting vessel operations, would be well regarded.

Why join us?

• Flexible working arrangements to promote work-life balance.
• Five additional wellbeing leave days each year.
• The opportunity to make a difference in a growing business.

Engage Marine Group and its subsidiaries are an Equal Opportunity Employment Employer and encourage applications from candidates from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women and gender diverse people, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from culturally diverse backgrounds.