Associate Expeditor

Role Overview

Associate Expeditor at McDermott. The role utilizes existing expediting procedures to solve routine or standard problems, with instruction and guidance from team members, leveraging conceptual knowledge of theories, practices, and procedures related to expediting and supply chain.

Key Responsibilities

Project & Strategy Execution

• Work on assigned projects and understand the expediting strategy for all assigned projects.
• Execute expediting frequency based on the Expediting Level assigned to the Purchase Order.
• Review PO delivery requirements to ensure schedule requirements are met.

Supplier & Vendor Management

• Liaise with suppliers and other functions to facilitate the status of project goods and materials.
• Identify supplier performance gaps and potential delivery delays and advise others as necessary in a timely fashion.
• Expedite supplier data submission for review as required by the Purchase Order, including arranging meetings with suppliers and Engineering.
• Monitor supplier materials, buy-out status, fabrication progress, shipping and documentation status by Purchase Order requirements and contract schedule.
• Anticipate supplier's early production problems and check to ensure planned production is not delayed due to materials and resource shortage.
• Drive issue resolution with suppliers and other functional stakeholders.

Reporting & Documentation

• 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.
• Drive accurate and timely project status reporting process and weekly expediting reports.
• Ensure all packages are closed out after Final Documentation is received.

Quality & Inspection Coordination

• Work with Quality Team to obtain Inspection notification from the supplier and liaise with the Quality group for inspection arrangements.
• Coordinate Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) timing with supplier, package manager, engineer, quality inspector, third-party inspector, and when applicable, the client.

Operations & Logistics

• Identify, troubleshoot and resolve potential problems that may delay the delivery of goods or services.
• Coordinate with the traffic coordinator to resolve export compliance requirements and obtain timely shipping documents from the supplier.
• Ensure Over, Short & Damage (OS&Ds) and Equipment Receiving and Inspection Reports (ERIR) are addressed and closed out to minimize the impact on the project schedule.
• Resolve open POs delivery.
• Perform other expediting tasks as assigned.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent) in Supply Chain Management (or a relevant discipline) or HSD/GED/IGCSE with 2 years of relevant experience.
• 0-3 years of relevant experience.

Skills & Competencies

• Knowledge of Materials Management systems for procurement and logistics.
• Solid understanding of expediting systems used to support the process of project execution.
• Understanding of the expediting process as outlined in the Unifi system.
• Ability to apply knowledge in expediting work activities.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, Access).
• Understanding of the overall material management lifecycle.