Senior Expeditor
John Wood Group
- Woking, Surrey
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Establishes priorities, assigns workloads and manages expediting team performance
- Review and manage the more difficult and complex aspects of the expediting workload.
- Has detailed understanding of the supplier delivery obligations form the terms and conditions of purchase
- Review and interpret supplier production plans/schedules, identify delivery improvement opportunities and negotiate delivery improvements / slippage recovery plans
- Creation of daily expediting reports in materials management system
- Expediting of purchase orders daily with priority focus
- Updating of materials management system with the expediting status of Purchase Orders
- Continually set expediting follow up dates in materials management system
- Obtain quotations for field expediting plans and C.V.'s of 3rd party expediting providers
- Place purchase order for 3rd party expediting services
- Liaise with field expediting suppliers to co-ordinate expediting visits
- Receive, review and issue field expediting progress reports and update system accordingly
- Review expediting reports to confirm status of orders, sub-orders and validate the agreed manufacturing schedules
- Monitor the progress of receipt and return of supplier documentation
- Notifying Supply Chain Manager of any potential schedule slippages
- Negotiate improved delivery / recovery plans where required
- Visit suppliers on request of the SCM and Material Manager on the project
- Maintain an auditable file of all relevant purchasing documentation for each purchase order in relevant shared drive / area
- Demonstrate commitment to safe working practices
- Understands and lives Woods vision, values and behaviours
- Understands and works to the Financial Management Framework
- Qualified to ISCED Level 4 / 5 (post-secondary non-tertiary / short-cycle tertiary)
- Good standard of expediting experience demonstrating results
- Detailed knowledge of Suppliers, Manufacturing Schedules and Expediting
- Detailed knowledge of terms and conditions of purchase/supplier obligations
- Previous experience in a similar level role
- Previous use of ERP's such as Maximo, Oracle, SAP
- Broad knowledge of Suppliers
- Detailed Knowledge of Materials & Document Expediting Practices
- Strong Team Player
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Adaptability and Problem Solving Skills
- Work under pressure to meet deadlines
- Provide reports to senior management, as requested
- Delegate and coordinate tasks to colleagues