Materials Manager​/Expediter

About Us

QISG leverages Quanta’s comprehensive resources to deliver collaborative solutions for our partners' energy infrastructure needs. We use in-house talent, expertise and resources to plan, design, engineer, manage, conduct maintenance on and construct projects.

Our turnkey service capabilities provide our customers with efficiency, consistency, attention to detail and safe execution. The QISG team brings together Engineering, Safety, Quality, Material Procurement, QA/QC, Right-of-Way Acquisition, Scheduling, Environmental Planning, Permitting, Title and Land Management expertise that ensure outstanding results for our clients.

The Materials Manager plays a key role in ensuring the timely availability of materials required to support QISG’s construction, installation, and engineering activities. This role ensures materials are adequately controlled, received, stored, and distributed to meet project requirements. Other responsibilities may include collaboration with procurement, logistics, communicating with vendors/suppliers, and on-site contractor management for the Company.

• Develop and manage material management practices and resources with clients
• Maintain material control systems to ensure accurate tracking, receipt, storage, and distribution of materials and equipment.
• Identify issues related to material control and recommend and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
• Expedite materials deliveries as needed to ensure timely receipt of materials and equipment.
• Work with vendors to quickly obtain materials when expedited requests are needed
• Work directly with procurement to ensure project materials adhere to construction and delivery schedules, and effectively communicate with client, project teams, and vendors.
• Perform material take-offs and work with customers, engineering, project management, and construction to determine the necessary material for project completion
• Manage lead times and material availability by identifying the material construction need dates, order by dates, and material decision points to be included in project schedules.
• Oversee vendor shipments to ensure logistics and timely delivery of construction materials to the project
• Continuously monitor changes to construction material requirements to ensure appropriate requisitions and/or revisions are efficiently addressed
• Prepare Materials Management Execution Plan, as needed
• Collaborate with site teams to ensure materials are delivered in the correct quantities and within required timelines.
• Work with Site Material Management personnel to establish layout of warehouse and/or lay-down yard, using warehouse/material management industry best practices to safely maximize space and streamline operations.
• Work with Site Material Management personnel to ensure all inventory is handled and stored safely, according to any requirements and engineering specifications
• Work with Site Material Management personnel to effectively manage receiving activities, count, and inspection of materials delivered to construction/warehouse/lay-down yard and addressing any discrepancy whether it be QA/QC, overage, shortage, or damage goods are reported and corrected in a timely manner.
• Obtains and resolves material related questions and/or problems, directly coordinating between project managers, engineering, suppliers, fabricators, construction, project controls, or other management
• Plans, manages, and executes phase bundling, structure staging and kitting to help streamline materials for construction
• Works with Site Material Management personnel to perform on-site material audits to ensure accuracy of inventory
• Directly manages, controls, and performs data input for project materials within our inventory management system to provide real time and accurate inventory reporting
• Works with Site Material Management personnel who coordinates and supervises the off-loading and storage of materials as they are received or issued to construction
• Performs and coordinates project closeout activities for materials, purchase orders, and other contract requirements, including obtaining proper disposition of excess…