Senior Principal Expeditor
McDermott
- West Bay, Doha, Qatar
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead the project's process, with possible supervisory duties
- Develop and execute expediting strategy to track the movement of project materials and deliverables
- Develop effective expediting cadence based on schedule, shop demand, and workload
- Liaise with Logistics Leadership and Package Management to facilitate the timely status of project goods and materials
- Support supplier performance review process on behalf of Expediting
- Effectively communicate with Procurement, suppliers, and other process stakeholders
- Support the Area as a process lead
- Review Purchase Order delivery requirements to assure quality and project requirements are met
- Identify and understand levels of required expediting and actions workload to optimize material deliveries according to project schedule requirements and shop demands
- Include accurate and timely expediting of Purchase Orders and Material Test Reports (MTRs)
- Complete consistent and timely updates to delivery dates in the Company system and distributes weekly expedite reports to the Project Team and Suppliers
- Ensure the Supplier's timely delivery of all items on Purchase Orders to maintain the Project schedule
- Work with procurement management to identify performance gaps and delays, including engineering drawing delays, fabrication problems, delivery delays, sub-supplier management, and people resources
- Ensure expedited issues are being coordinated between the other departments, offices, fabrication, and construction teams to meet project requirements and deadlines
- Notify and collaborate with Logistics subject matter experts on material movements that fall within McDermott's responsibility
- Maintain and promote a focus on McDermott's end-product, whether procurement, engineering, fabrication, or construction related
- Ensure effective communications among procurement disciplines, clients, project teams, and suppliers
- Understand and consistently use expediting procedures as established in company policies
- Perform other Supply Chain Management tasks as assigned
- Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent) in Supply Chain Management (or a relevant discipline) or HSD/GED/IGCSE with 15 years of relevant experience
- 10-16 years of relevant experience
- Demonstrates knowledge of the expediting process as related to procurement
- Ability to effectively communicate with procurement personnel and non-procurement personnel
- Ability to work well with others
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, Access)
- A comprehensive understanding of the overall material management lifecycle
- Well-versed in the Expediting process
- Strong knowledge of Materials Management systems for procurement and logistics