Senior Engineer, Materials

Job purpose

Materials engineering and procurement

• Apply engineering standards to procurement of maintenance, repair, operational spares, and general materials.
• Review SPIRs; verify and identify buyout spares; provide technical clarifications, evaluate items, and recommend procurement.
• Coordinate inspections with users, reconcile goods against approved SPIRs, and address material certifications and safety data sheets with the warehouse.
• Report damaged or short deliveries and follow up with suppliers or insurers on discrepancy reports.
• Reconcile project surplus and commissioning spares against as-built drawings, recover unused materials, and update records.
• Evaluate replenished stock and new spares, resolve procurement queries, and coordinate technical evaluations with end users.
• Review equipment and proposed solutions for standardisation and obsolescence; determine spare-parts criticality and maintenance analysis requirements.

Team, reporting, and coordination

• Set and monitor subordinate KPIs and support staff in meeting management targets.
• Prepare management information and KPI reports on material master activity, technical evaluations and inspections, data collection, and enhancement.
• Guide materials engineering staff in extracting technical information and preparing materials descriptions from drawings, catalogues, standards, and data sheets.
• Explore supply sources, interview supplier representatives, and keep informed about procurement developments.
• Maintain supplier communications, including site visits, prequalification, and sampling.
• Liaise with end users, procurement, and warehouses on cataloguing, evaluation, inspection, and other technical matters.
• Track management status, technical library, KPI and SPIR reports, and MCAD requests; coordinate with the inventory excellence team on health checks, ERP needs, efficiency, improvement, and new technology.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor's degree in electrical, mechanical, or instrumentation engineering.
• Eight years of materials management experience covering cataloguing, standardisation, inventory, stores, SPIR review, technical evaluation, and inspection.
• Eight years of experience in the oil and gas or petrochemical industry.
• Excellent spreadsheet and database skills and required experience in an ERP environment, such as MAXIMO, ORACLE, or SAP.