Coating & Caulking Product Buyer

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Coating and Caulking Buyer 

Altrad 

Hinkley Point C project,

Accountabilities:    

• Analyse Site team requirements/needs, liaise with wider procurement team and main suppliers to deliver on-time and cost-effectively
• Assist EPM Delivery team in product selection according to construction constraints and best for project strategy
• Create documentation required for procurement and quality follow-up of coating and caulking products
• Liaise with material controller and delivery leads to inform trackers and operations
• Maintain, communicate, and update Risk register for this activity
• Coordinate the training of the workforce according to the specification for caulking and coating works through the training supply chain
• Manage request for qualification – manage relationship with 3rd party labs, qualification of product processes etc.
• No budgetary accountability, but responsible for assuring no commitments made outside authority.
• Other support to delivery of the Programme objectives as identified by PM and others. 
• Support the development of Joint Management Team and collaborative working to reinforce working behaviours against agreed principles and objectives. 

Health & Safety Responsibilities

All Employees are responsible for ensuring they fully understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly, where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and particularly where there are legal requirements, employees are responsible for understanding those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

Key Deliverables: 

• Promote the HPC way through best practice 
• Accurate, reliable reporting and data base update.
• supplier schedule and delivery reporting.
• Action recommendations from Lead and Construction team. 
• Identification of risks and opportunities
• Accurate cost management database liaising between Supervision Discipline Lead and Procurement / Project controls for product replenishment
• Ensure that a full and auditable archive of project deliverables is maintained to document the project evolution, history and communicated to the relevant site team.

Minimum Qualifications/ Experience (as per MEH matrix):

• 2+ years’ Experience in managing Caulking / Coating scope, technical knowledge of Coating and caulking Products and Systems preferable and with purchasing knowledge
• Professional Qualification level – Degree / NVQ3 or equivalent
• Nuclear experience a priority
• Communication skills – First class communication and presentation skills.
• Results orientation – Understanding the required results and focusing to achieve them.
• Self-Driven and resilience – Determination to succeed in situations and adapt effectively to new situations.
• Planning and organisation – Working in a structured and thoughtful way whilst demonstrating initiative. 
• Teamwork – Working closely with colleagues to achieve a common goal.
• PM career path, but willing to learn and apply project management and organisational skills, which has been gained through practical experience.
• Good written and oral skills, basic IT literacy, able to communicate effectively.
• Comfortable of Independent working to a high attention to detail.

Additional Qualifications/ Experience:    

• Procurement experience at an Industrial level
• Experience working in high integrity, regulated industries necessary. 
• Commercial awareness and cost control exposure very much desirable though not essential.
• Working knowledge of construction activity and interface management

MEH Values attributed behaviours:        

Humility – Working with the design teams who have previous experience of EDF nuclear projects.
Positivity – Remain focused on the goals and the delivery of a right first-time project.
Respect – The HPC team includes people from all cultures and backgrounds and this is a key factor in the development of a truly collaborative team.
Clarity – Be able to communicate with all the relevant stakeholder in clear terms to avoid misunderstanding.
Solidarity – Collaborate with the whole team for the benefit of the overall project.

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.