Field Purchasing Specialist

Bechtel•Oak Ridge, TN

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

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 provided enriched uranium capabilities well into the future.

Requirements

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

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
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.