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Job description

This vacancy is with our client, Government oil & gas company under the ADNOC group in Abu Dhabi

Purpose:

To review, replenish assigned materials groups and evaluate respective offers for inventory stock to meet the normal plants operations and shutdown demands

Background:

The Inventory Engineer reports to the Senior Inventory Engineer .

The role of the Inventory Engineer is to use Inventory Control techniques with regard to materials consumption history, equipment criticality, Lead-time, installed quantities and other control factors to replenish the right and necessary materials in time and respective offers evaluated. The materials to be replenished are consisting of major rotating equipment, mechanical, instrument and electrical items that are vital or critical for the plant operations and of medium moving and high value nature. It is a major challenge to review the stock set up levels in order to identify the errors and to analyze the respective causes and propose the best solution especially with regard to the Recorder point and Economic Order Quantity. This requires a technical background and high degree of coordination and communication with the company¿s plant users, operations support and Purchasing.

Main Accountabilities:

¿ To ensure timely preparation of replenishment requisitions, Call-off Purchase Orders, verify buying descriptions for assigned groups, and to approve the replenishment as per the Financial delegation of Authority ( FDOA)
¿ To use effectively the Materials and Maintenance Management System by running and analyzing the respective reports in order to carry out the Inventory Control functions
¿ To coordinate with Purchasing and end users on the outstanding Purchase and Repair Requisitions and the return status of repairable items in time
¿ To review the reservation requests, for assigned groups made for Plants shutdown and Equipment Overhauls in order to ensure that the necessary materials are replenished in times and the inventory is maintained at a cost-effective level to meet the Plants demand.
¿ To review and approve the technical and commercial evaluation of inventory materials quotations as per the Financial delegation of Authority ( FDOA)
¿ To analyze the nil stock and unfulfilled demands and to take the necessary replenishment and set up adjustment actions.
¿ To update for assigned groups, the inventory materials data to take the necessary economic and timely procurement process.
¿ To recommend for new stock items the stock set up levels, necessary codes, purchasing method and other inventory data in coordination with the Plant users.
¿ To carry out Stock Reviews in order to define the items classification and to ensure that the optimum inventory levels are maintained through identification of dead and obsolete items.
¿ To analyze the inventory requisitions for assigned groups by manufacturer and by commodity in order to establish different types of Purchase Agreements to minimize stock holding and better delivery.
¿ To review non-moving and slow moving items for assigned groups coordinate with maintenance and initiate inventory data clean-ups, write-off action.
Minimum Requirements:
¿ Bachelor¿s degree in any Engineering discipline (Prefer Mechanical/Metallurgy Engineering)
¿ Minimum 5 years experience in material related activities including at least 3 years in Inventory/Stock Check in an Oil and Gas or Petrochemical industry and 2 years in maintenance or operations in Oil & Gas industry
¿ Proficient in computer applications
¿ Very good in English (written and spoken)