Senior Expeditor

Role Overview

Senior Expeditor at McDermott, based on company location as stated in posting.

Company Overview

McDermott is a global engineering and construction company with more than 100 years of history and more than 30,000 employees across 54 countries. The company specializes in subsea infrastructure, offshore platforms, offshore wind infrastructure, and onshore energy delivery projects across the energy value chain.

Role Purpose

The Senior Expeditor uses best practices and in-depth knowledge of expediting discipline to improve how McDermott tracks and manages supplier performance and material deliveries. They solve complex expediting problems, work independently with minimal guidance, and mentor colleagues with less experience while ensuring projects stay on schedule and within policy guidelines.

Key Responsibilities

Expediting Strategy & Execution

• Execute expediting strategy to track the movement of project materials and deliverables.
• Execute effective expediting frequency based on the Expediting Level assigned to the Purchase Order.
• Identify and understand levels of required expediting and action workload to optimize material deliveries according to project schedule requirements and shop demands.
• Ensure the Supplier's timely delivery of all items on Purchase Orders to maintain the Project schedule.

Supplier Performance & Oversight

• Supervise team to identify supplier performance gaps and potential delivery delays.
• Support supplier performance review process on behalf of Expediting.
• Work with procurement management to identify performance gaps and delays, including engineering drawing delays, fabrication problems, delivery delays, sub-supplier management, and people resources.

Stakeholder Coordination

• Liaise with Logistics and Package Management teams to facilitate the timely status of project goods and materials.
• Collaborate with Logistics on material movements.
• Effectively communicate with Procurement, suppliers, and other process stakeholders.
• Ensure effective communications among procurement disciplines, clients, project teams, and suppliers.
• Ensure expediting issues are being coordinated between the other departments, offices, fabrication, and construction teams to meet project requirements and deadlines.

Quality & Documentation

• Review Purchase Order delivery requirements to ensure quality and project requirements are met.
• Input 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.
• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the contract.
• Understand and consistently use Expediting procedures as established in company policies.

Problem-Solving & Process Improvement

• Actively resolve expediting-related issues.
• Recognize when Management of Change (MOC) is required.
• Participate in projects to assess or develop new Expediting tools as assigned.
• Maintain and promote a focus on the end-product whether procurement, engineering, fabrication, or construction related.

Reporting & Team Leadership

• As Team Supervisor, drive accurate and timely project status reporting process and weekly expediting reports.

General

• Perform other Supply Chain Management tasks as assigned.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management or a relevant discipline, OR High School Diploma/GED/IGCSE with 6 years of relevant experience.
• 6–10 years of relevant expediting experience.
• Experience expediting supplier documentation, instrumentation such as control valves and MOVs (Motor Operated Valves), major equipment such as vessels and pumps, and bulks.
• Experience expediting Structural Steel fabrication and Pipe Fabrication is a plus.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the expediting process as related to Procurement.
• Comprehensive understanding of the overall material management lifecycle.

Skills & Competencies

• Ability to effectively communicate with procurement personnel and non-procurement personnel.
• Ability to work well with others.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, Access).
• Knowledge of Materials Management systems for Procurement and logistics.
• Active problem-solving skills.
• Capability to manage multiple keys, complex packages with interdependencies of schedule.