Job Description

Position: Procurement Engineer (Primetals Technologies USA LLC; Alpharetta, GA)

Duties: Ensuring effective execution of major projects as they relate to procurement, and work with cross-functional partners to optimize and grow business. Participating in project/sales meetings as project core team member to exert a shaping influence at an early stage; determining best costs for go to market; optimizing supply base; optimizing internal workflows and processes; creating project procurement concepts and plans. Analyzing inquiries during bid preparation/opportunity management phase; understanding the customer’s functional needs, in order to include supplier innovations that improve cost positions and customer benefits. Supporting project calculations with reliable material cost data. Initiate the Project Procurement Plan to document baseline information. Establishing proper sourcing processes and controlling all procurement resources and activities within the project; optimizing delivery and cost (procurement plans, target costing) and assuring adherence to deadlines and quality. Applying procurement regulations as per compliance and organization standards. Analyzing scope of supply and contract agreements, carrying out risk analyses, and introducing negotiation recommendations together with commodity management, to prepare for negotiations with suppliers and to initiate appropriate measures. Deriving procurement strategies and ensuring their implementation (e.g. pooling, utilization of master contracts). Update project procurement plan to document strategy and execution details. Leading contractual and pricing negotiations and/or supporting the buyers responsible for particular material fields (in particular, those not covered by any Commodity Management) to secure project targets with optimal conditions. Clarifying internal indicators for project controlling and compiling all relevant information to submit qualified reports (e.g. for the project team, procurement management team). Providing supplier information to the project and conducting project-specific supplier evaluations. Identifying particular procurement risks, opportunities and market forces during the project, together with commodity management, to avoid potential damage and identify potential opportunities through tailored risk and claim management. Keep all project participants up to date.

Minimum education required: Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in Electrical Engineering or related field.

Minimum experience required: 1 year of experience in procurement of electrical equipment or related experience.

Skills required:Must have experience with: Electrical Engineering concepts; Electric frequency converters, direct current drives, electric motors; Technical procurement; SAP; Negotiation, NDA, claims; Should-cost modeling to estimate cost of a product or service; Supply chain knowledge including incoterms, payment terms, quality, indirect and direct procurement, logistics; MS Project, MS Excel, power point; RFI, RFQ, RFP placement and analysis; Establishing KPI and prepare project procurement plan. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.