Senior Procurement Officer

SUMMARY:
SENIOR PROCUREMENT OFFICER

• Responsible for procurement effort on projects regarding all activities related to the purchase of goods and services
• Dispute resolutions
• Purchase order close outs
• Ensuring complicit compliance with the agreed purchase order terms & conditions 

POSITION INFO:
Responsibilities

• Assist with the preparation and issuing of procurement operating plans
• Assist with the preparation of procurement standards, documentation and procedures.
• Assist with the preparation and maintenance of project bidders list and supplier database.
• Assist project management with preparation of project progress reports.
• Ensure that procurement objectives and philosophies are adhered to.
• Prepare and maintain filing system (hard & soft) per prescribed project procedures.
• Ensure file check lists are maintained and updated.
• Action material requisitions raised by engineering and approved by project management.
• Issue request for quotations (RFQ’s).
• Attend to all queries during the tendering process.
• Analyse and adjudicate tenders commercially.
• Prepare commercial evaluation and recommendation for award for project manager/client approval.
• Process invoices in accordance with purchase orders and ensure payment is made to suppliers.
• Prepare and issue purchase order amendments as necessary once authorised
• Prepare monthly purchase order FAC’s ensuring all issues known at time of forecast are reflected.

• High school education
• Diploma in a related field
• Experience of procurement in the mineral processing plant field