Procurement Officer

Lycopodium Limited; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Lycopodium Limited is seeking a Procurement Officer in Mississauga to support project services in procurement, purchasing, and logistics. The successful candidate will have at least 2 years of relevant experience and will work within a team focused on high-quality service delivery across various projects.

Benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Career progression and technical skill development

Diverse and rewarding career opportunities

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in purchasing, expediting, transport and logistics.
• Demonstrable procurement and cost control knowledge.
• Excellent written, electronic, and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Perform dealings with clients, suppliers, and freight companies professionally.
• Adhere to project-specific and company procedures.
• Responsible for expediting and logistics functions.

Skills

Communication skills

Initiative

Self-motivation

Professional ethics

Job description

With offices in Australia, Canada, Africa and the Philippines, Lycopodium proudly delivers high quality professional engineering and project delivery services globally, across the resources, infrastructure and industrial processes sectors. By joining our global team and learning from renowned subject matter experts, we can offer you a diverse career that could take you anywhere in the world.

Lycopodium is currently recruiting for a Procurement Officer to join our growing team in Mississauga Ontario.

Reporting to the Procurement and Contracts Manager the Procurement Officer is to provide support to the Project Services Group (PSG) or a specific project, in the areas of procurement, purchasing, expediting, cost control, and transport and logistics.

The tasks you'll perform

• Perform all dealings with clients, suppliers, manufacturers and freight company personnel professionally, ethically and efficiently, to ensure the highest possible service levels.
• Communicate openly, professionally, ethically and efficiently at all times with all internal customers to ensure that the highest customer service level is achieved.
• Adhere to the various project specific and company procedures, work practices, plans, systems and protocols required to work efficiently, and maintain a consistent approach and high standard of work.
• Responsible and accountable for all expediting functions as directed by the Procurement & Contracts Manager and/or Project Manager.
• Responsible and accountable for all logistics functions as directed by the Procurement & Contracts Manager and/or Project Manager.
• Ensure all assigned purchasing processes are followed strictly in accordance with documented and authorised company procedures.
• To be assigned on a Project specific basis, and in accordance with Company policies and guidelines.

The expertise you'll bring

• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in purchasing, expediting, transport and logistics disciplines in mining, minerals, engineering, or construction industries.
• Projects experience with demonstratable procurement, purchasing, expediting, cost control, and transport and logistics knowledge.
• Excellent communication skills, written, electronic and verbal.
• High degree of professional ethics.
• Initiative, self-motivation and the ability to work without supervision.

The benefits we'll provide

Lycopodium has a strong company culture focused on career progression and technical skill development. You can expect to be involved in a wide range of large projects whilst working amongst a team of highly skilled professionals.

We recognise that everyone is different and needs may change over the course of your career. That’s why we :

• Invest in our people for the long-term, building a diverse and rewarding career, mentored by the best in the industry.
• Allow our people to balance work with other commitments, like family or study, offering flexible work arrangements.
• Are undertaking significant people and technology initiatives that will support the workplace of the future.

We encourage and value diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of gender, age, disability and ethnicity.

Our commitment to equal opportunity is embodied in our values of Respect, Integrity & Diligence. They are inherent in who we are, as individuals, and collectively as a Company.

We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.

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