Senior Expeditor

Job description / Role

Responsibilities

Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world.

Wood is currently recruiting for a Senior Expeditor to join its UAE business unit. This is a full-time onsite position in Sharjah, UAE with travel requirement.

The role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Expeditor to join our UAE Business Unit.

Our clients and projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Wood has been awarded a general engineering contract to support an international client operator to deliver a portfolio of onshore capital projects by provision of engineering and project management services (including EPC contract management), as well as supply chain, construction and commissioning support from Wood Iraq and UAE offices.

Projects include both greenfield and brownfield modification projects and integrating low-carbon solutions to support our client's energy transition and emissions reduction goals.

What we can offer

• Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to high profile clients and complex projects in Iraq
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice
• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
• Commitment to continued professional development; development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests
• Global connections: join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession
• Medical insurance: ensures inpatient and outpatient medical care is available should you require treatment
• Group life and personal accident insurance: the company provides life assurance cover
• The employee share plan: gives you the opportunity to purchase Wood shares and receive a match from the company
• Long service award: Wood values the commitment and loyalty of our people. Celebrating long service provides an opportunity for the business to demonstrate their appreciation of the hard work, dedication and many years' services of our employees at 5-year service milestones

Key accountabilities & responsibilities

• Establishes priorities, assigns workloads and reviews the more difficult and complex aspects of the expediting workload
• Responsible for the desk and field expediting of all project purchase orders through to FCA readiness
• Updating system with the expediting status of purchase orders
• Obtain quotations for field expediting plans and CVs of third party expediting providers
• Expediting the engineering team for timely document approvals
• Notifying supply chain focal points of any potential schedule slippages
• Setting expediting follow up dates in the relevant system
• Checking field expediting manufacturing schedules
• Liaison with field expediting suppliers to coordinate expediting visits
• Receiving field expediting progress reports and updating the relevant systems
• Issuing expediting reports as required by the project
• Demonstrate commitment to safe working practices
• Demonstrate commitment to Wood's vision, values and behavior

Qualifications

What makes you remarkable?

At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world's most critical challenges.

Expected:

• Degree qualification
• Minimum of 10 years expediting experience in the oil and gas industry
• Detailed knowledge of materials and document expediting practices
• Strong team player
• Excellent communication skills
• The individual should have previous experience in a similar level role
• Previous use of ERP systems such as Maximo, Oracle, SAP
• Broad knowledge of suppliers in the Middle East region and ideally in the UAE and Iraq

About the Company

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people.