Expeditor, Transportation

Our client, a major Oil and Gas company, is looking for an Expeditor to join their team on a 1-year contract in Calgary.

Responsibilities:

• Reviews area expediting assignments prepared by area expediting reports prepared by area expediting personnel for content, completeness and appropriateness.
• Contacts suppliers to obtain timely submission of engineering data, and to follow up on material acquisition, production progress, and shipment.
• Compiles data needed to prepare the critical items reports or other supplementary reports as required. Coordinates the accumulation of data from project expediters and issues reports for the expediting group.
• Coordinates with planning and scheduling, field material coordinators or job site project expeditors and construction to establish priorities, sequences, and required delivery dates and instructs suppliers accordingly.
• Maintains a working file of expediting related documents and memoranda of conversations to record expediting activities. Maintains a system to initiate follow-up actions at appropriate times. Provides information for area expediting assignments for prime and suborders, as necessary.
• Monitors area expediting assignments, reviews expediting reports and takes corrective action on problems identified in the reports.
• Obtains copies of suppliers' orders for material, performs sub-supplier expediting, where necessary, and works closely with supplier quality representatives to ensure awareness of materials subject to quality performance and their locations of manufacture.
• Coordinates shipping arrangements or tracking requests with the project Logistics representative.
• Reviews material receiving reports against shipping documents to verify that material has been received ists in tracing missing material.

Requirements:

• Related Bachelors degree or college diploma and at least 5 years experience in aspects of procurement of major equipment and bulk materials;