Purchasing Specialist

Requisition ID: 274979 
- Relocation Authorized: None 
-Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project 
-Work Location: Brisbane, QLD 
 
Bechtel Mining and Metals is seeking an experienced Purchasing Specialist with proven communication capabilities to join our project team in Brisbane.
What We Offer:
There are many reasons why choosing to join Bechtel is one of the best career decisions you will ever make. In addition to working with talented, dedicated people and having the opportunity to play an integral role in stimulating and challenging local and international projects, Bechtel is committed to offering you the benefits and resources to live a healthy life. With a market aligned salary package and annual discretionary performance bonus scheme in place, employee wellbeing is also at the centre of our business - promoted through our strong health and safety focus and private health cover including access to a leading employee assistance program.
About the Role:
As the Purchasing Specialist, you will maintain working relationships with project Procurement personnel and project discipline personnel.
In your role, you will perform purchasing duties including bidder prequalification, bidder lists, bid solicitation, bid analysis, negotiation and commitment of purchase orders. You will also complete administration of purchase orders following commitments involving high monetary expenditure or risk, engineered technical specifications, or supplementary commercial conditions.
Responsibilities will include:
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-Develop and prepare project master purchases pro-forma forms, including legal and commercial terms and conditions to be included in purchase documents on project commitments. Reviews prime contract terminology and transfers applicable legal and commercial terms into the pro-forma documents.
-Prepare, maintain, and monitor project bidders lists, prequalifies bidders, forms and issues bid packages, prepares commercial bid summary and recommendation letter, establishes files, and controls all incoming/outgoing correspondence, and ensures input is received from all procurement functions and other operational groups.
-Monitor suppliers’ performance for conformance to commercial terms including activities by engineering and other in-house functions to ensure compliance with the order terms.
-Reviews and develops other commercial and technical data prepared by Engineering, Construction, Finance, Logistics, Insurance, Tax and other procurement functional groups including Customer and inputs suitable terminology into pro-forma documents.
-Participates in the development of project purchasing procedures.
-Prepares, maintains, and monitors project bidder's lists, ensuring input is received from all procurement functions and other operational groups.
-Participates in the planning, work hour calculations, budgeting and other related activities in projecting purchasing staffing requirements for projects.
-Reviews international project commercial conditions of purchasing to ensure purchasing pro-forma terms, conditions and procedures are compatible with applicable Bechtel Directives, Instructions and Procurement Procedures.
-Forms, issues, and administers purchase orders. Communicates with suppliers to achieve required service and meet project needs. Communicates with Engineering to assist and/or guide them in the preparation of material requisitions. Prepares and organizes assigned Procurement sponsored meetings.
-Directs negotiations in the commitment of purchases, following review and approval of the proposed negotiating plan by the designated supervisor.
-Provides training and guidance to other purchasing personnel regarding all aspects of formation and administration of purchasing forms, procedures, and buying goods.
-Other duties as designated.
 
What You Bring:
-Proficiency and experience in all phases of procurement including knowledge in the formation and administration of purchase orders through the several steps such as skill in communicating effectively with suppliers, bidder prequalification, preparation of bidder's lists, compilation of bid requests, receipt of bids, bid evaluation, monitoring the performance of suppliers, knowledge of Uniform Commercial Code or applicable commercial legislation, negotiation of contracted terms and conditions, and award.
-Proficiency in the administration of commitments, monitoring supplier performance, negotiation, backcharge procedures, and the resolution of claims and disputes.
-Knowledge in Digital Supply Chain System (DSCS) Purchasing Module.
-Skilled in working with stakeholders and communicating effectively both orally and in writing.
-Knowledge of international commercial conditions of buying as well as international suppliers.
 
Working Rights in Australia without employer sponsorship are required.
We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer & commit to respond to every applicant.
Why Choose Bechtel?
At Bechtel, we know that exceptional people deliver our customers’ projects—projects with a purpose that create a lasting positive legacy in the communities where we live and work. Just as we are committed to helping our customers achieve their visions, we are committed to offering the best people in the industry—people like you—with rewarding, challenging, and flexible long-term careers. Outstanding professionals are needed on projects that create jobs and grow economies; improve the resiliency of the world's infrastructure; connect communities to resources and opportunities; get us closer to net zero; tackle critical environmental challenges to protect people and the planet; and accelerate progress to make the world a cleaner, greener, safer place.
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Shaping tomorrow together
Bechtel is one of the most respected global engineering, construction, and project management companies. Together with our customers, we deliver landmark projects that foster long-term progress and economic growth. Since 1898, we’ve completed more than 25,000 extraordinary projects across 160 countries on all seven continents. We operate through five global businesses: Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; Mining & Metals; and Manufacturing & Technology. Our company and our culture are built on more than a century of leadership and a relentless adherence to our values, the core of which are safety, quality, ethics, and integrity. These values are what we believe, what we expect, what we deliver, and what we live.  
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Bechtel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, disability, citizenship status (except as authorized by law), protected veteran status, genetic information, and any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
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