Job Description

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.
Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers\' objectives to create a lasting positive impact.
We serve the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy, and Mining & Metals markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations. 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.

Bechtel India is a global operation that supports execution of projects and services around the world. Working seamlessly with business line home offices, project sites, customer organizations and suppliers, our teams have delivered more than 125 projects since our inception in 1994.

Our offices in Gurgaon, Vadodara and Chennai will grow significantly and sustainably with exciting career opportunities for both professionals and young graduates who are passionate about creating a cleaner, greener, and safer world; building transformational infrastructure; making decarbonization a reality; and protecting people and the environment.

Position Summary

Manages and monitors procurement operations of Bechtel Chennai office. Ensures that performance of the work is consistent with applicable policies, procedures, and objectives and meets global business unit and project needs. Supports development of regional and global procurement strategies.

Job Dimensions

A. Supervision Received

• Reports to and receives technical and operational guidance from the India office Manager of Procurement and Contracts.

B. Supervision Exercised

• Provides technical, operational, and functional guidance to purchasing, expediting, supplier quality, logistics and materials management team in Chennai office.

Responsibilities

• Maintains regular communication with the project Procurement Managers to maintain knowledge of projects\' progress in order to apply required management direction, or corrective action.
• Review project procurement execution plans, acquisition strategies with procurement teams and provide local, regional, and industry knowledge in execution planning.
• Periodic review of Chennai office project procurement performance to identify good practices, lesson learnt, and challenges in execution and provide required support to enable success of teams.
• Channelize good practices and lesson learnt across projects.
• Conducts in-depth functional review of project procurement in line with Global Business Unit guidelines.
• Supports India office Manager of Procurement and Contracts in hiring, staffing planning and other functional activities.
• Identifies training needs and directs application of training programs to ensure that the assigned Procurement personnel have satisfactory knowledge of their level of work to perform.
• Monitors preparation of project/proposal Procurement work hour estimates, budgets and schedules to ensure that these are developed realistically and that they meet organization/project objectives.
• Periodically reviews project Procurement activities to ensure that operations are within approved work hour estimates, budgets and schedules, and if not, directs the preparation of a revised budget request and/or a change in activities.
• Directs in-depth Procurement audit of the activities and functions in Chennai office.

Basic Qualifications

• A Bachelor\'s degree in Engineering from a reputed University. Post-graduate specialization in Supply Chain Management or MBA preferred. 18+ years of industry experience including 5 years in a senior leadership role in a reputed EPC company working on global oil and gas, refinery, and petrochemicals projects.

Additional Qualifications

• Proficiency and experience in global project Procurement operations at both jobsites and office locations.
• Knowledge of personnel procedures and policy. Experience and skill in supervision, including selection, hiring, training, development, performance evaluation, career counseling, and salary administration.
• Thorough knowledge of procurement interface with engineering, construction, planning, cost control, and quality control functions.
• Experience and/or familiarity with, purchasing, expediting, supplier quality, logistics, and field procurement operations.
• Experience in pricing, contracts law, contract drafting, administration and negotiation of change orders, effective correspondence, planning and scheduling.
• knowledge of contracts management or claims primarily on international projects.

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 four global businesses: Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; and Mining & Metals. 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.

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.

Bechtel employees are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19 or show proof of a negative test result prior to accessing Bechtel sites/facilities to the extent required by applicable law or by customer requirements.

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