Expeditor

Brunel; Hubbard (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Brunel in the United States is seeking an Expeditor to manage post-purchase activities ensuring equipment and materials are manufactured, inspected, shipped, and delivered on schedule. You will work with suppliers, engineering, quality, logistics, procurement, and project teams to identify delays early and drive recovery actions.

Responsibilities include monitoring supplier performance, tracking long-lead items, coordinating with logistics to ensure on-time shipment, and escalating risks before

Qualifications

• Experience in expediting, procurement, or vendor management on large industrial projects.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing schedules and inspections.
• Experience with long-lead equipment and critical path items.
• Ability to push suppliers to recover schedules.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Monitor supplier performance and track manufacturing progress against schedules and milestones.
• Maintain regular communication with vendors to confirm production status and delivery commitments.
• Track long-lead and critical equipment to keep milestones on schedule.
• Follow up on overdue materials, documentation, and supplier actions.
• Monitor vendor engineering documents to avoid delays in manufacturing or shipment.
• Coordinate with Quality and suppliers to ensure inspections and testing are completed on schedule.
• Identify potential delays and work with suppliers to develop recovery plans.
• Escalate schedule risks and delays before they impact project dates.
• Track equipment from manufacturing through factory release and delivery.
• Coordinate with logistics teams and freight forwarders to support on-time shipment.
• Prepare and maintain material status and expediting reports.
• Provide regular updates to project, procurement, and engineering teams.
• Participate in supplier expediting reviews to drive issue resolution.

Skills

Expediting

Supply chain management

Vendor management

Communication

Stakeholder management

Schedule tracking

Tools

SAP

Job description

The Expeditor is responsible for managing post-purchase order activities to ensure equipment and materials are manufactured, inspected, shipped, and delivered in accordance with project requirements and schedules. This role works closely with suppliers, engineering, quality, logistics, procurement, and project teams to identify potential delays early and drive recovery actions before they impact construction or operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor supplier performance and track manufacturing progress against agreed schedules and milestones.
• Maintain regular communication with vendors to confirm production status, completion dates, and delivery commitments.
• Track long-lead and critical equipment, ensuring key manufacturing milestones remain on schedule.
• Follow up aggressively on overdue materials, documentation, engineering approvals, and supplier actions.
• Monitor vendor engineering documents and approvals to ensure documentation does not delay manufacturing or shipment.
• Coordinate with Quality and suppliers to ensure required inspections, testing, and quality documentation are completed on schedule.
• Identify potential manufacturing or delivery delays and work with suppliers to develop recovery and mitigation plans.
• Escalate schedule risks and supplier delays before they impact project construction or required-on-site dates.
• Track equipment and materials from manufacturing through factory release, shipment, and final delivery.
• Coordinate with logistics teams, freight forwarders, suppliers, and other stakeholders to support on-time shipment and delivery.
• Prepare and maintain material status and expediting reports, highlighting critical items, overdue activities, schedule risks, and recovery actions.
• Provide regular updates to project, procurement, engineering, construction, and supply chain teams.
• Participate in supplier meetings and expediting reviews to drive resolution of outstanding issues.

Qualifications & Experience

• Previous experience in expediting, procurement, supply chain, materials management, or vendor management, preferably within large industrial, energy, EPC, oil & gas, LNG, or infrastructure projects.
• Strong experience with post-order expediting and supplier follow-up.
• Understanding of manufacturing schedules, vendor documentation, inspections, logistics, and material delivery processes.
• Experience managing long-lead and schedule-critical equipment.
• Ability to identify schedule risks and effectively push suppliers to implement recovery actions.
• Strong communication, organization, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience working with procurement or ERP systems such as SAP is preferred.
• Ability to manage multiple purchase orders, suppliers, and priorities simultaneously.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is someone who can take ownership of a purchase order after award and manage it through manufacturing, inspection, shipment, and final delivery. They should be comfortable engaging suppliers directly, challenging delivery dates, tracking manufacturing milestones, escalating delays, and keeping project teams informed of material status and schedule risk.