Field Purchasing Specialist

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Project Overview:

Bechtel National, Inc. (BNI), Bechtel’s government services business, is one of the top providers to departments and agencies of the U.S. and British governments. Its successes include many large, first-of-a-kind projects in government site management, environmental restoration, defense, space, energy, and national and homeland security. This position will provide support to the Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) located at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. UPF will be a first-of-its-kind complex for enriched uranium operations in support of Y-12 missions. UPF is one of the Department of Energy’s largest investments in Tennessee since the Manhattan Project and one of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s largest construction projects. When complete, UPF will: replace a 70-year-old facility with modern buildings, reduce operational costs and energy consumption, improve worker safety, and provide enriched uranium capabilities well into the future.

Job Summary:

In this role, you will perform tasks involved in the formation and administration of purchase orders. You will prepare bidders’ lists, qualify bidders, form bid packages, issue bid requests, participate in negotiations, recommend commitments, secure approvals, communicate with suppliers and monitor supplier performance. Your efforts are to ensure potential and current suppliers comply with purchase order requirements and provide the required service and results to meet project needs

Major Responsibilities:

• Communicates with Engineering to assist and/or guide them in the preparation of material requisitions for the procurement of materials and equipment and to achieve the understanding needed to process these requisitions 
• Forms bid packages and issues bid requests; coordinates bidders’ questions; and receives bidder proposals 
• Prepares Commercial Bid Summary and recommendations to award 
• Prepares and commits purchase orders within their authority 
• Communicates with suppliers and personnel within Bechtel to establish clear definition of requirements and to assure supplier performance to the obligations within the purchase order 
• Identifies, defines, and secures agreement regarding purchase order changes 

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Requires a University Hire with 1-2 years of experience or 5-6 years of relevant work experience

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Develops and prepares 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.
• Reviews and develops other commercial and technical data prepared by Engineering, Construction, Finance, Traffic & Logistics, Insurance, Tax and other procurement functional groups and inputs suitable terminology into pro-forma documents.
• Prepares, maintains and monitors project bidders’ lists, ensuring input is received from all procurement functions and other operational groups.
• Forms, issues, and administers purchase orders.
• Communicates with suppliers to achieve required materials/service and meet project needs.
• Communicates with Construction 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.
• Assists in the training and guidance to other purchasing personnel regarding all aspects of formation and administration of purchasing forms, procedures, and buying goods.
• Assists project Procurement team when instructed in solving and attending to administrative problems on commitments involving high monetary expenditure or risk, engineered technical specifications or supplemental commercial conditions.
• Recommends to designated manager salary actions, classification changes, terminations, and transfers.
• Helps in the review of 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. 

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