Purpose
To govern maintenance materials, cost efficiency, and logistics systems, while supporting reliability improvement projects, ensuring the implementation of technically sound and cost-effective solutions across the plant. The role acts as a bridge between engineering, planning, and procurement, ensuring that the materials, logistics, and commercial aspects of maintenance and projects are effectively aligned.
Key Responsibilities
- Cost Engineering
- Perform lifecycle cost analysis for maintenance and improvement activities
- Support and structure repair vs replace economic evaluations in collaboration with reliability engineers.
- Track, analyze and benchmark maintenance and turnaround costs.
- Identify and drive cost optimization and standardization opportunities across materials and vendors.
- Materials System Governance
- Implement spare parts strategy defined by reliability engineers
- Drive inventory optimization, standardization, and rationalization
- Manage obsolescence execution, including phase-out and replacement alignment
- Improve materials, master data and governance in SAP
- Ensure alignment between materials strategy, reliability programs, and procurement execution.
- Turnaround Materials & Logistics
- Ensure material completeness and readiness for turnaround and major maintenance events
- Coordinate long-lead items, vendor delivery, and staging plans
- Develop and maintain material logistics strategies to support efficient execution
- RFQ & Project support
- Support reliability engineers in developing RFQ packages and vendor evaluations frameworks
- Translate technical scope into clear, structured, and commercially comparable RFQ documents
- Perform Technical-commercial evaluation, including:
i. Lifecycle cost comparison
ii. Spare parts compatibility
iii. Maintainability considerations
iv. Vendor capability assessment
- Consolidate vendor proposals into clear, decision-ready comparisons
- Provide structured analysis to support reliability engineers final technical and vendor selection decisions.
- Vendor & Materials Optimization
- Support vendor performance evaluation and feedback loops
- Rationalize vendors and material specifications across the plant
- Align materials and vendor strategy with reliability and improvement programs
Qualification & Experience
- Degree in Engineering, Physical science, Supply Chain or a related discipline preferred.
- Minimum 8 years of relevant experience in procurement, materials management, or plant support roles within industrial or petrochemical environments.
- Demonstrated experience supporting:
- Maintenance and turnaround activities
- Materials and spare parts management
- Vendor coordination and RFQ processes
Candidates with relevant industry experience in plant maintenance, materials management, procurement, or turnaround support will be considered in lieu of a specific degree discipline.
Competencies
- Strong practical understanding of plant maintenance workflow, materials systems and vendor ecosystems.
- Ability to integrate technical, commercial, and operational considerations.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills
- Effective stakeholder management across engineering, planning, and procurement teams
- Proficiency in SAP or equivalent materials management systems
