Senior Expeditor

Overview:
Energy Resourcing are currently recruiting for a Senior Expeditor to join their project delivery team on a contract basis in Aberdeen to work on their clients Energy Contract.

Expediting a wide range of packages in support of E&C and larger Project work scopes.

**Responsibilities**:

- Ownership of expediting discipline into project PEP and expediting strategy and where necessary the trade compliance plan.
- Achieve on time delivery of packages, equipment and material items, ensuring associated KPI’s are actively performance managed.
- Actively development, implementation and management of scope specific expediting strategies and plans, as appropriate.
- Ensure key document deliverables are submitted and approved within the required timescale.
- Develop and maintain good working relationships with suppliers.
- Obtain supplier reports, analyse and challenge prior to project distribution.
- Carry out/execute field expediting visits or prescribe scope for externally resourced field expediting visits, capturing findings in detailed report.
- Ensure all project stakeholders are aware of latest expediting information with respect to project deliverables.
- Update project reporting systems and tools with latest information.
- Management of project specific expediting report, as well as ownership of expediting status report (ESR) meeting.
- Provide project specific information for input to Project Management Reporting.
- Working alongside Senior Buyer with ongoing Supplier performance management.
- Work closely with Quality Control and Material Controllers to ensure purchase orders are released, shipped and receipted in a timely manner. This also includes supporting the QA team with ongoing inspection and test plan (ITP) management.
- Ensure goods release is supported with required customs and shipping requirement.
- Work closely with Quality Control, Material Controllers and Procurement team to address any OS&D/NCR issues, including leading progressive learning initiatives as required.
- Ensure ongoing electronic filing of key correspondence in the designated PO filing structure, also ensuring Expeditor I and II level resource or equivalent is performing in this area.

Qualifications:
**Qualifications / Training**

**Essential**:

- Demonstrable relevant experience.
- IT Literate (Excel / Word etc).
- Advance Diploma level member of CIPS or greater.

**Essential**:

- Proven experience in expediting delivery of packages, equipment and material items and design data from suppliers in line with contractual delivery dates.
- Management of expediting teams on Brownfield / Greenfield projects.
- Experience of allocation of expediting activities within the expediting team.
- Draft, implement and audit use of expediting procedures.
- Proven track record of building productive relationships with suppliers and subcontractors.
- Demonstrate the ability to manage and co-ordinate multiple purchase orders and associated deliverables with a range of different material types and associated criticality ratings.
- Proven capability to analyse and challenge supplier production schedules to identify areas of concern, lagging indicators and associated mitigation initiatives.
- Good understanding of shipping release requirements in terms of customs and shipping requirements.
- Demonstrate excellent organisational and co-ordination skills.
- Computer literate with experience of various supply chain systems.
- Competent in maintaining and updating project reports accurately.
- Ability to lead an expediting status meeting, reporting progress, managing associated actions and follow ups.
- Ability to liaise and effectively communicate at all levels of the business, both internally and externally.
- Demonstrate a strong commitment to HSSE.

**Desirable**:

- Experience gained in the oil and gas industry.
- Computer literate in the use of Microsoft software.
- Excellent knowledge of engineering commodities.
- SAP experience / Running Expediting Report from SAP and entering updated delivery information.