Procurement Project Officer

**About CDE**

CDE exists to create our best world through bold engineering in the waste recycling and natural material processing industries. We move forward together, continuously creating to the highest global standards. We are always customer-focused, relentlessly innovating with a single purpose in mind:
**To create our best world, a ton at a time.**

We empower our customers to transform waste into valuable resources through innovative co-creation, laying the foundations for the circular economy. And we help our customers maximise their natural resources in the most sustainable way possible - with greater efficiency and less waste than ever before.

Our people are genuinely empowered to lead and deliver highly strategic and innovative projects. Elevating our employees is vitally important to us and we do this on both a professional and personal level through providing opportunity and challenge to all and cultivating a culture that values employee wellbeing and fun. Our Platinum status in the world-recognised Deloitte Best Managed Companies Awards, achieved for thirteen consecutive years is testament to this approach.

Our global headquarters and manufacturing centre of excellence are located in Northern Ireland, perfectly positioned to serve the UK and Ireland markets. The company also has teams based in Austria, France, and Russia to serve the Europe and Russia markets; Dubai, UAE, to serve the MEA market; Ormeau, Australia to serve the Australasian market; as well as Texas, USA and Belo Horizonte, Brazil to effectively serve the vast Americas market.

**About The Role**

**Job Purpose**:
Support the procurement activities at a Project level, ensuring the purchase orders are aligned to the project schedule and working with the wider teams to mitigate any delays to our customers.

**Responsibilities**:

- Be the point of contact for the Head of Supply Chain on any procurement related queries with Projects.
- Liaise with the Scheduling Team to ensure purchase orders are placed in line with the project schedule, raising the necessary schedule change requests when required.
- Work closely with the Scheduling Team to understand supplier capacities to identify suppliers with the necessary capacity to meet the project lead time.
- Represent and lead Procurement in the Clear to Promise (CTP) review, using the MRP data to highlight priorities.
- Update and complete project tasks, review SCRs raised by scheduling team, raise SCRs on behalf of scheduling team where required.
- Represent the Procurement Team in the Project Status meeting to communicate the procurement updates to all stakeholders.
- Need to have attendance at Kick Off Meetings for new Projects, weekly/bi-weekly meetings with ProMan Team to discuss procurement issues and manage project close out from a procurement view.
- Day to day procurement activities as required.
- Work alongside planning to support any procurement queries and these will be filtered back to the scheduling and category team.
- Any other appropriate tasks that the company requires.
- Answer Assembly requests and questions regards project readiness, feedback any delays or impact in a proactive manner.
- Continually challenge and improve upon current practices and procedures.
- NB: This job description is not exhaustive as other duties may be required to fulfil the requirements of the role._

**Required Criteria**- Educated to degree level in a business-related discipline or
- Minimum 2 years’ experience in a purchasing function in a manufacturing environment.
- Experience of working with a modern ERP/MRP 2 system
- Proficient with Microsoft office software
- Available to work flexible hours.
- Right to work in the UK

**Desired Criteria**- Part CIPS qualified or similar
- Experience with IFS system

**Skills Needed**

**About The Company**

WE ARE CDE. ENGINEERED FOR YOU

We empower our customers to transform waste into valuable resources through innovative co-creation, laying the foundations for the circular economy.

We help our customers maximise their natural resources in the most sustainable way possible - with greater efficiency and less waste than ever before. Our unparalleled speed and scale are down to our proximity to our customers and our deep understanding of their challenges. Our track record of proven solutions consistently meets our customers’ needs precisely, operating in challenging environments from the Arctic to the Equator.

Wet processing is our sole focus -our experience and expertise is unmatched in this field.

Every day, in everything we do, we strive to do it right. We want to be the best at what we do and deliver the maximum benefit for our customers. We pull together, as a team, in pursuit of this common cause. Our “Customer for Life” mentality fortifies each of our projects, with CDE engineers delivering continuous, limitless support.

**Company Culture**

We recognise that it is our people that have established CDE as market leader in develo