Lead Procurement Engineer - Offshore

About Us

Worley is a global company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia. We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value across the life of their assets. We specialise in consulting, engineering, procurement and construction across the project lifecycle, with services extending through to operations and decommissioning. Leveraging extensive experience and AI‑enabled delivery, we support customers in navigating complexity as they meet today’s needs and transition to more sustainable solutions.

Lead Procurement Engineer will help develop integrated procurement‑related plans and procedures supporting organisational strategies. The role will require managing and controlling the procurement process and execution within PTS projects, providing support and expertise to help achieve organisational goals and objectives.

• Prepare internal procurement‑related plans and procedures (if required)
• Ensure that contractor timely develops and submits its project‑related procurement & subcontracting plans and procedures in accordance with the requirements of the agreement. This would include (but may not be limited to) procurement plan, purchasing procedure, expediting & inspection procedure, shipping & packing procedure, traffic & shipping procedure, spare parts procedure and site material management procedure. Review and approve procurement & subcontracting‑related plans and procedures.
• Review contractor’s procurement organisation chart and ensure that adequate and sufficient resources have been assigned by contractor to guarantee proper functioning of its procurement department (this includes purchasing, expediting, inspection, shipping and spare parts teams).
• Monitor and ensure that contractor complies with its obligations under the agreement with regards to procurement and subcontracting.
• Monitor and ensure that contractor performs its procurement and subcontracting activities in line with requirements set in the agreement and within timelines set by the project’s schedule (including but not limited to issuance of plans, procedures, enquiries, technical bid evaluations, award recommendations, placing purchase orders and subcontracts, performing expediting, inspection and shipping activities, submitting duty exemption requests, progress reports, etc).
• Monitor and ensure that contractor maintains and submits its most updated procurement reports, such as bid inquiry status report (BISR), procurement service register (PSR), inspection & expediting report, shipping status report and spare parts status report.
• Timely review and process contractor’s technical bid evaluations, award recommendations, vendors’ pre‑qualification requests, duty exemption requests, letters of assistance and any other procurement and subcontracting‑related letters.
• Prepare and process company’s position papers, analysis, approvals, records and control documents on procurement and subcontracting‑related matters.
• Actively cooperate with other team members from FEED to EPC phase of the project and other parties to secure common project and organisational goals.
• Develop and maintain own status reports on procurement and subcontracting.
• Provide advice and recommend solutions / improvements on any procurement / subcontracting related matters to the best interest of company.
• Contribute in achieving project’s schedule goals by ensuring that all contractor’s related documents are reviewed and approved (whereever applicable) in a timely manner.
• Monitor and control contractor’s post‑order placement activities (expediting and shipping).
• Keep management aware of any risks associated with procurement and provide mitigations and execution plan to avoid/minimise such risks.
• Provide regular update on procurement status.
• Work on a daily basis with contractor’s procurement team to ensure proper communication with company on any procurement‑related matters.
• Overall overview of procurement department.

• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent from an accredited university, with a minimum of fifteen (15+) years of relevant…