Material Management Specialist

Position Summary

Principal Accountabilities

• Build the Bill of Materials (BOM) as provided by suppliers and enter the data and stored location into SAP.
• Determine the correct level of spare parts once the facility is operational based on in-country availability of parts to meet the business needs.
• General plant provisioning including 'zone' store set up and management.
• Provide warehouse support during the commissioning of the plants. Maintain accurate inventory control.
• Provide warehouse input as required for scheduled outages to Management.
• Understand environmental regulatory requirements.
• Support overall construction and commissioning activities.
• Ensure company standards and best practices for warehouse management are met.
• Optimize stock levels.
• Manage shipment and control of facility spares inward & outward.
• Manage the stock replacement program.
• Manage stock inventory check program.

Additional Accountabilities

• Emergency transport arrangements with vendors.
• Provide training and support in 'hard goods' inventory management methods and SAP transactions.
• Manage the safe storage of capital spares both onsite and offsite.
• Ensure to comply with company safety, health and environment standard, fulfil the mandatory safety requirement and activities.
• Ensure warehouse activities are executed in compliance with EH&S requirements.
• Contribute to the development of EH&S related procedures in support of warehouse activities.
• Supervise and assist warehouse contractors with all sites related activities assigned to them, ensuring the safety and reliability philosophy is followed.
• Working with the operations and maintenance teams understand plant issues and execute cost effective solutions for resolution to meet the customer's satisfaction on safety, reliability, product quality, and flexibility on product supply.
• Provide support during turnarounds (TAR), insuring spares and materials are available to the site team.
• Emergency response required 7 days a week/ 24 hours a day.

Skills & Attributes

• Honest and trustworthy and flexible working hours in order to support plant operations.
• Respectful and Presentable.
• Possess cultural awareness and sensitivity.
• Flexible and works according to the needs of the organization.
• Demonstrate sound work ethics.
• Detail oriented, analytical and inquisitive.
• Effective written, verbal & listening skills.
• Ability to work independently and with minimal supervision.
• Good planning, monitoring and reporting skills.
• Team player with excellent team building skills.
• Comfortable in an unstructured and fast-paced environment.
• Self-starter, pro-active at gathering information & understanding subject matters.

Minimum Requirements And Qualifications

• At least 5 years of warehouse and inventory management work related experience.
• Diploma/bachelor's degree (In Business OR Engineering OR Technical disciplines).
• Forklift operation with a valid driver's license to operate and train people is plus point.
• Proficiency in English & Arabic (Reading and Writing).
• Knowledge in SAP (ERP System).

Work Location

• Jubail (Saudi Arabia).

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