Senior Administrator - Vendor Pre-Qualification

Job description / Role

Purpose: Manage prequalification process for contractors, suppliers, and consultants while adhering to prequalification policies. Prepare invitations for prequalification including pre-qualification questionnaire/ request for qualifications

Accountabilities

Policies and Procedures
- Assist in the Implementation of policies, procedures, and operational standards

Operations
- Develop criteria for vendors’ prequalification in-line with Company standards
- Develop and maintain database of contractors, suppliers, and consultants using an online registration system
- Manage prequalification process for contractors, suppliers, and consultants while adhering to prequalification policies, including:
- Prepare an invitation for prequalification including pre-qualification questionnaire/ request for qualifications
- Create a long list of contractors, suppliers, and consultants, issue invitation for prequalification and receive documentation
- Receive vendors’ qualifications, evaluate, and perform scoring based on pre-set criteria
- Establish list of preferred bidders
- Provide list of recommended vendors to project teams to initiate tendering process
- Perform collection of feedback from project teams to monitor contractors’ performance
- Perform updating of prequalification and supplier information on a regular basis

Requirements

- Degree in Engineering or Quantity Surveying.
- 4 - 6 years of experience in the ME, vendor pre-qualification experience preferred.

Job-Specific Skills:
- Strong skills in building and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Excellent analytical skills
- Excellent organization skills
- Strong negotiation skills

About the Company

Orion Engineering was established in 1987 to supply Engineering personnel to the Oil and Gas Industry. Since then the company has grown significantly and presently has in excess of 4000+ personnel on secondment worldwide.

Our blue chip client list includes major oil companies such as Shell, BP, Chevron Texaco and Exxon Mobil and major engineering contractors and suppliers such as Technip, Wood Group. Talisman and Wormald Tyco.

The division has offices at various strategic locations throughout the world including London, Houston, Aberdeen, Lagos, Doha, Singapore and 5 offices throughout Kazakhstan.