Procurement Engineer

valmet; Pune District; On-site; INR 700,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Valmet in Pune, India is seeking a Procurement Engineer for Packaging and Tissue to drive cost-efficient external spend and supplier management. The role requires reading drawings, engineering basics, and travel as needed.

You will shape procurement strategies, negotiate contracts, and ensure alignment with project schedules and budgets while maintaining quality and delivery targets.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken in English.
• Ability to read engineering drawings and understand specs.
• Proactive mindset with problem-solving approach.
• Familiarity with welding issues and how to resolve them.
• Willingness to travel as required.

Responsibilities

• Create a cost-efficient supply plan covering external spend for the project.
• Ensure execution of supply plan per schedule and budget.
• Estimate costs of fabricated, machined, casted components.
• Process purchase orders, monitor budgets and invoicing.
• Engage stakeholders and report supply plan status to management.
• Identify suppliers and develop capacity plans for major categories.
• Negotiate contracts and create purchase orders.
• Expedite orders and resolve supplier issues to prevent delays.
• Analyze market prices and manage total cost of ownership.

Skills

Communication skills

English language

Drawing reading

Welding troubleshooting

Proactive mindset

Willingness to travel

Engineering basics

Education

Bachelor/Master in Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Procurement Engineer for Packaging and Tissue (based in Pune, India)

Are you the enthusiastic, self-driven and result-oriented professional who wants to move our customer's performance forward?

Responsibilities

• Create a total cost-efficient supply plan covering all external spend within the assigned project by utilizing established category strategies while securing all customer needs.
• Ensure execution of established supply plan according to project schedule and within project budget.
• Estimate the cost of fabricated, machined, casted, etc. components.
• Administer purchase orders, monitoring budgets and invoicing
• Manage stakeholders, by involving them and reporting supply plan status to project management.
• Search and approve potential suppliers & develop the capacity plan for major volumetric categories.
• Create negotiation strategy, execute supplier negotiations and create contracts/purchase orders.
• Expediting ongoing orders by visiting supplier works periodically, understanding and highlighting challenges and working towards problem-solving
• Analyze the market prices of product & components and manage the total cost of ownership for product & services.
• Communicate contracts/ frame agreements content with key stakeholders.
• Stay updated on category strategies affecting area of responsibility.
• Meet Functional KPI's such as On-time delivery, quality & cost competitiveness.

Requirements

• Bachelor / Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 3~5 years of relevant experience in relevant field.
• Understand engineering basics including engineering drawing study.
• Proactive mindset.
• Knowledge and interest in reading and understanding drawings.
• Ability to troubleshoot welding issues and find solutions.
• Good communication skills.
• English language, written and spoken, is mandatory.
• Willingness for travelling.

Benefits

• A rewarding position in a global industry leader in pulp, paper and energy industries with the possibilities to grow professionally.

Valmet is a leading global developer and supplier of process technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries. With our automation systems and flow control solutions we serve an even wider base of process industries. We aim to become the global champion in serving our customers.

The company has over 220 years of industrial history and a strong track record in continuous improvement and renewal. Valmet's net sales in 2023 were approximately EUR 5.1 billion. Valmet's shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki and the head office is in Espoo, Finland.

At Valmet, we enhance circularity and environmental efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions through the entire value chain. Valmet aims to enable fully carbon neutral production for its customers by 2030.