Procurement Assistant
Location: Lee-on-the-Solent
Employment type: Full Time
Working Hours: Monday to Friday
What’s in it for you
We believe in looking after our people, and it shows. When you join Ipsum, you’re not just taking a job, you’re starting a career with real support behind it.
About the role
As a Procurement Assistant, you will support the delivery of Ipsum’s procurement strategy and play a key role in ensuring the smooth running of day-to-day procurement activities. This is a hands-on position offering exposure to a wide range of tasks including sourcing materials, coordinating logistics and supporting supplier relationships.
Working closely with the Procurement Specialist and internal stakeholders, you will ensure materials, plant and equipment are sourced efficiently and aligned with operational needs.
Key responsibilities include:
About you
You will bring experience from a procurement, buying or supply chain support environment and be confident working in a fast-paced setting.
You will have:
Desirable:
Experience within civil engineering or water sector.
You will be someone who takes ownership, works well under pressure and is committed to continuous improvement and delivering excellent service to stakeholders.
Our commitment to Equal Opportunities
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and experiences and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce.
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Next steps
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply or reach out to the Careers Team for more information.
At Ipsum, we provide specialist engineering services across the UK’s regulated water and energy companies and private sector businesses.
We work with our customers to maintain, optimise and develop their above and below ground assets to ensure security and resilience, and with our smart systems and ways of working, we ensure we deliver on time, on budget and safely.
At Ipsum, we develop long-term working relationships with our customers by providing essential utility services on both public and private networks. We have many long-term contracts and framework arrangements in place which are built upon great customer service, safe working practices and the ability to flex and deploy specialist skillsets at short notice.
The growth of Ipsum has been built upon our people and our ability to meet the demanding and ever-changing needs of our customers. The UK utility sector is evolving and expanding to meet increasing customer demand, regulatory-driven outcomes and to exploit new innovative technologies, at Ipsum we will continue to grow in this sector by being a reliable, flexible and agile service partner that helps customers meet these new challenges.
As we know, utility service provision is not a 9 to 5 business, our customers don’t switch off their networks or assets at night, or at the weekends, or on holidays, or when things are quiet. They need them to work round the clock – and we at Ipsum are right beside them 24/7 to make sure they do.
We pride ourselves in providing specialist scheduled maintenance services, being able to respond to an individual call-out or mobilise onto a major upgrade project and that our customers can rely on Ipsum 24/7/365.
