Senior Expeditor - Industrial Market

Kiewit•Lenexa, KS

About The Position

The Senior Expeditor leads responses to complex equipment, supplier-performance, and manufacturing delays that threaten project schedules. The role owns challenging supplier packages, evaluates the credibility of supplier recovery plans, and gives project and supplier leaders evidence-based information and options for decisions. It applies manufacturing knowledge, schedule analysis, and supplier influence to improve delivery reliability while developing other expeditors. This is a senior individual-contributor position with technical leadership and mentoring responsibilities. The role works within the approved project expediting framework and recommends changes to surveillance, escalation, and resources. Formal staffing, personnel management, and program governance remain with the designated lead or manager. The position is based in the Lenexa, Kansas, or Houston, Texas, office, with work potentially occurring in offices, supplier shops, and project sites.

Requirements

At least 7 years of relevant experience in expediting, procurement, manufacturing, construction, or project supply chain, including substantial direct responsibility for complex supplier packages and delivery recovery; equivalent combinations of relevant training and experience are considered.
Demonstrated ability to challenge detailed manufacturing schedules, analyze critical dependencies, and evaluate recovery options with suppliers and project teams.
Experience verifying progress at supplier facilities and identifying material, capacity, labor, sub-supplier, and inspection constraints.
Strong understanding of interfaces among supplier documentation, engineering release, procurement, fabrication, testing, shipping, receiving, and closeout.
Ability to influence supplier and project leaders, lead difficult delivery discussions, and clearly explain risks and recommended actions.
Sound commercial awareness, disciplined evidence management, and judgment about when decisions require Contract Management, Engineering, Quality, or project leadership.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, for data analysis and review of reporting accuracy.
Ability to use AI assistants and large language models (LLMs) to streamline and automate daily tasks, coach others in using these tools, and validate outputs.
Regular, reliable attendance; ability to work productively, meet deadlines, communicate effectively and professionally, and perform work safely while following oral and written instructions.
Ability to work during normal operating hours and to work overtime and weekends as required; may work at various locations and in varying conditions.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in engineering, supply chain, construction management, business, or a related field; a degree is not required when relevant experience demonstrates the required capabilities.
EPC experience with major engineered equipment, complex fabrication, international suppliers, or multiple tiers of supply.
Experience reviewing detailed supplier schedules and using material management systems across different platforms and project workflows.
Experience contributing to expediting plans, supplier performance reviews, or improvements to project reporting and work processes.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain contract-specific expediting plans within the approved project framework, and manage complex, long-lead, or schedule-critical packages through engineering, manufacturing, shipment, receipt, and closeout.
Contribute pre-award input on supplier schedule realism, reporting and document requirements, sub-supplier visibility, shop access, recovery expectations, and closeout deliverables for assigned high-risk packages.
Challenge supplier schedules, critical and near-critical dependencies, remaining durations, resource assumptions, and lower-tier commitments; reconcile supplier dates with contractual milestones and construction or commissioning needs.
Lead reviews of supplier recovery plans, testing root causes, schedule logic, labor and shift assumptions, material availability, inspection readiness, and transport options; track recovery actions and escalate repeat misses.
Plan and lead targeted shop-expediting visits with appropriate project approvals, verifying physical progress, capacity constraints, critical materials, sub-supplier status, and evidence for promised completion dates.
Resolve difficult delivery interfaces with Engineering, document control, Supplier Quality Surveillance, Logistics, and site teams; involve supplier leadership in escalations when commitments are unsupported or unresolved.
Present evidence-based delivery-risk assessments, including affected milestones, options, action owners, and required decisions; recommend changes to package surveillance and expediting intensity through the project lead.
Maintain reliable forecast history and prepare factual delay chronologies and milestone evidence for Contract Management; route requests for cost or schedule relief, changed scope, and commercial remedies to authorized decision-makers.
Lead complex supplier performance reviews and follow corrective actions.
Coach expeditors in schedule analysis, supplier questioning, recovery follow-through, and report quality; use lessons learned to improve methods and data quality.
Follow through on difficult receiving exceptions and incomplete final documentation so packages close with complete records or an explicit transfer of remaining actions.