Senior Expeditor

Role overview

Expediting and delivery

• Supervise identification of supplier-performance gaps and potential delivery delays.
• Track project materials and deliverables, applying expediting frequency based on the level assigned to each purchase order.
• Coordinate with logistics and package management to support timely status and delivery of project goods and materials.
• Review purchase-order delivery requirements and optimize expediting workload against project schedules and shop demands.
• Ensure suppliers deliver all purchase-order items on time to maintain the project schedule.
• Collaborate with logistics on material movements and resolve expediting issues.

Supplier coordination and reporting

• Support supplier-performance reviews and recognize when management of change is required.
• Communicate with procurement, suppliers, clients, project teams, and other stakeholders.
• Maintain timely company-system updates and distribute expediting reports to project teams and suppliers.
• As team supervisor, drive accurate project-status reporting and weekly expediting reports.
• Coordinate delays involving engineering drawings, fabrication, delivery, sub-suppliers, and staffing with procurement management.
• Coordinate expediting issues across departments, offices, fabrication, and construction teams to meet project requirements and deadlines.

Process and other duties

• Participate in projects to assess or develop expediting tools as assigned.
• Maintain focus on the end product across procurement, engineering, fabrication, and construction.
• Follow established company expediting procedures, maintain a comprehensive understanding of the contract, and perform other assigned supply-chain management tasks.

Essential qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Supply Chain Management or a relevant discipline, or HSD/GED/IGCSE with 6 years of relevant experience.
• 6–10 years of relevant experience.
• Experience expediting supplier documentation, instrumentation including control valves and MOVs, major equipment such as vessels and pumps, and bulk materials.
• Knowledge of procurement-related expediting processes and materials-management systems for procurement and logistics.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and Access.
• Ability to communicate effectively, work well with others, solve problems, and manage complex packages with schedule interdependencies.

Preferred experience

• Experience expediting structural steel fabrication and pipe fabrication is a plus.