Maintenance Purchasing Officer

Wood is currently looking for Maintenance Purchasing Officer to support our team in Iraq/Basra on a rotational of 5/2 Rotation.

Iraq Nationals are encouraged to apply.

Activities 

• Raise Purchase Orders in line with business rules
• Ensure Purchase Orders are approved in line with business rules
• Email the Purchase Order to the supplier (where the system does not support automatic emailing of the Purchase Order)
• Receipt Purchase Order based on an approved goods receipt note/delivery docket
• Request credit notes from suppliers and send to Accounts Payable for processing
• Establish sound relationships with suppliers, ensure lead times are met and expedite outstanding orders
• Purchase Requisitions (PR) /Purchase Order (PO) amendment processing
• Material Requisitions (MR) processing
• Shipments delivery inspection coordination for Materials receiving (GR)
• Drive continuous improvement across Purchasing process
• Provide regular report (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly) for MR, PR, PO status as well as updating delivery/shipment status.
• Notifying section head for any critical or urgent material shipment

Skills

• Strong understanding of Purchasing principles and processes
• Experience with Purchasing systems (preferred)
• Analytical and have the ability to solve purchasing and inventory related problems
• Strong data entry skills
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
• Proactive, highly motivated and flexible
• Highly organized
• Experienced with MS Office including Word, Excel, and Outlook

System

• Maximo / Aconex
• Microsoft Offices

• Minimum 5 years experience in the Up-stream or Mid-Stream of the Oil and Gas project/operations engineering business
• Bachelor degree preferably Business Administration, Accountancy or Finance
• 4 – 5 years’ experience in a Purchasing role, including data entry
• Understand and follow oral and written instructions; prepare clear and concise records, reports and other written materials.
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with those encountered in the course of work.
• Organize, plan and complete projects.
• Communicate effectively and professionally orally and in writing.
• Work with minimal supervision; schedule own time according to established priorities; work under less detailed instructions to complete assignments.
• Utilize data extraction abilities and process knowledge to participate in continuous process and data quality improvement initiatives.
• Must be an Iraq National with Basra Residence ID