**Requisition ID: 268899**
- ** Relocation Authorized: None**:
- ** Telework Type: Part-Time Telework**:
- ** Work Location: Perth, WA**
**About Bechtel & the Mining Metals (M&M) Global Business Unit**
Bechtel is an innovative organisation, and we are currently looking for people who want to continuously improve how we engineer and execute projects in Australia and around the world. Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents, that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.
The Mining & Metals (M&M) Global Business Unit (GBU) is focused on helping our customers to responsibly unlock the resources needed to build a cleaner, greener future.
Core to Bechtel are our values - ethics, safety, quality, people, culture, relationships, innovation and sustainability, and our covenants - integrity, respect, collaboration, trust, and delivery. They are what we believe, what customers can expect, and how we deliver.
**Your Role**
As you will be required to effectively liaise with project Supply Chain personnel, corporate groups, functional departments global business unit contracts personnel, and other project supervisors, as well as maintain relationships with bidders and supplier personnel, we are looking for someone with excellent interpersonal skills who can work collaboratively and inclusively.
**Key Responsibilities (include but are not limited to)**
Provides functional guidance and/or supervision to all purchasing personnel assigned to a project or office by performing the following:
- Supervises assigned personnel in the orderly performance and completion of project procurement commitments through the several steps of bidding, evaluation, and award, in accordance with established policies and procurement procedures.
- Supervises assigned personnel in the Procurement administration functions of identified project purchases to ensure, in conjunction with other functional departments, performance of each order in accordance with the contracted terms and conditions and project requirements.
- Conducts personnel annual reviews.
- Recommends to designated manager salary actions, classification changes, terminations, and transfers.
- Indoctrinates newly assigned Purchasing personnel to the requirements and procedures of the global business unit, project, and client.
- Monitors personnel to ensure they receive appropriate training and development to satisfy job performance criteria and company personnel development objectives.
- Supervises preparation and maintenance of project bidder lists, ensuring input is received from all procurement functions and other operational groups.
- Reviews bid tabulations for accuracy, bidder recommendation, completeness, and approves selection of suppliers within delegated approval authority. Ensures all commitments made by subordinate personnel are accurately presented and have proper global business unit approval and signing authorities, as contained in the Procurement Procedures. Reviews and recommends bid selections that require higher Procurement approval authority. Executes commitments within delegated signing authority.
- Communicates with Engineering and Construction supervision to assist, guide, and plan the processing of material requisitions for all project purchases.
- Develops project workhour estimates for Purchasing function. Monitors project work and the expenditure of work hours within approved budgets.
- Develops and coordinates with designated manager the Purchasing personnel staffing plan so that staff are added and released in an orderly manner, in accordance with the project workload.
- Reviews prime contract between client and Bechtel and makes recommendations to designated manager to ensure appropriate provisions are reflected in the general, special, and pricing conditions of the master Purchasing pro-forma documents.
- Develops, monitors, and maintains project master Purchasing pro-forma documents, including legal comments to commercial terms and conditions.
- Directs negotiations and prepares proposed negotiating plan in the commitment and resolution of commercial conditions of purchases when such action is agreed as necessary by the designated manager.
- Assures that project purchasing of equipment and materials is consistent with Bechtel Directives, Management Instructions, and Procurement Procedures.
- Coordinates Purchasing operations in both the project's control office and support offices to assure compliance with project requirements. In conjunction with the global business unit Field Procurement Manager, provides functional guidance to Purchasing personnel at the project jobsite.
- Advises, interfaces and provides expert guidance to other Bechtel and client personnel as delegated.
- Prepares and develops Purchasing strategies