Expeditor

Role Overview

The Expeditor is a position at McDermott responsible for applying expediting knowledge and experience to support routine assignments and solve straightforward expediting problems. The role is based at McDermott and operates with moderate guidance from colleagues and leadership.

Company Overview

McDermott has forged trusted partnerships across the energy value chain for more than 100 years. The company lays subsea infrastructure, installs offshore platforms, designs and builds offshore wind infrastructure, and delivers onshore energy solutions. McDermott operates across 54 countries with more than 30,000 employees.

Role Purpose

The Expeditor ensures timely delivery of project materials and goods by liaising with suppliers, monitoring purchase order status, and coordinating expediting activities across procurement, engineering, fabrication, and construction teams. The role applies best practices and knowledge of internal and external issues to improve products and services in the expediting discipline.

Key Responsibilities

Project and Strategy Execution

• Work on assigned projects and fully understand the project's expediting strategy.
• Execute expediting frequency based on the Expediting Level assigned to the Purchase Order.
• Identify and understand levels of required expediting and actions workload to optimize material deliveries according to project schedule requirements and shop demands.
• Maintain and promote a focus on McDermott's end-product, whether procurement, engineering, fabrication, or construction related.

Supplier and Stakeholder Management

• Liaise with suppliers and other functions to facilitate the status of project goods and materials.
• Drive issue resolution with suppliers and other functional stakeholders.
• Ensure the Supplier's timely delivery of all items on Purchase Orders to maintain the Project schedule.
• Work with procurement management to identify performance gaps and delays, including engineering drawing delays, fabrication problems, delivery delays, sub-supplier management, and people resources.
• Notify and collaborate with Logistics on material movements that fall within McDermott's responsibility.
• Ensure effective communications among procurement disciplines, clients, project teams, and suppliers.

Reporting and Documentation

• Drive accurate and timely project status reporting process and weekly expediting reports.
• Complete consistent and timely updates in the Company system and distribute expediting reports to the Project Team and Suppliers to provide insight into the progress of the package and to flag any concerns or issues for discussion.

Compliance and Coordination

• Review Purchase Order delivery requirements to assure project requirements are met.
• Ensure expediting issues are being coordinated between the other departments, offices, fabrication, and construction teams to meet project requirements and deadlines.
• Understand and consistently use Expediting procedures as established in company policies.
• Perform other Expediting tasks as assigned.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management or a relevant discipline, or High School Diploma/GED/IGCSE with 3 years of relevant experience.
• 3-6 years of relevant expediting experience.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the expediting process as related to procurement.
• Experience expediting supplier documentation, piping bulks, electrical bulks, instrumentation bulks, and instrumentation such as regulators, gauges, and PSVs.
• Experience expediting mechanical equipment is a plus.

Skills & Competencies

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, Access).
• Knowledge of Materials Management systems for procurement and logistics.
• Understanding of Expediting systems used to support the process of project execution.
• Understanding of the Unifi Expediting process.
• Understanding of the overall Material Management lifecycle.
• Ability to effectively communicate with procurement personnel and non-procurement personnel.
• Ability to work well with others.
• Ability to apply knowledge to work activities.