Buyer

**Key Tasks and Responsibilities**:

- The Buyer is responsible for Sourcing, negotiating and buying of goods, materials and services to meet the project, taking into account price, quality and delivery and to ensure continuity of supply.
- Should be responsible for basic purchasing of materials and services at the lowest cost to MDR using procurement processes that maintain consistency with schedule requirements.
- Perform bid evaluations and issue purchase orders for materials and services.
- Ensure all purchase orders are complete and reference all necessary conditions and deliverables, including, signatures, marking, packaging, payment, documentation, and shipment details.
- Identify problems and discrepancies that may occur and assist in implementing corrective action.
- Ensure work is being coordinated between the other departments, offices, fabrication and construction to meet project requirements.

**Essential Qualifications and Education**:

- 3 - 5 years of procurement experience.
- Works independently with mínimal guidance.
- Able to determine own work priorities.
- Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
- Interprets customer needs, assesses requirements and identifies solutions to non-standard requests.
- Uses best practices and knowledge of internal/external business issues to improve products or services in own discipline.
- Monitors and controls costs within own work.
- Solves moderately complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions.
- Manages own time to meet agreed targets; develops plans for short-term work activities in own area.
- Promotes teamwork; coaches and guides others.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain or related fields is preferred.
- Knowledge of SPMAT or Oracle preferred.

**Company Overview and Core Values**:
McDermott is a premier, fully-integrated provider of technology, engineering and construction solutions to the energy industry. For more than a century, customers have trusted McDermott to design and build end-to-end infrastructure and technology solutions—from the wellhead to the storage tank—to transport and transform oil and gas into the products the world needs today.

At McDermott, we hold all employees accountable to follow our 5 core values.
- Integrity - we maintain a firm adherence to legal and ethical conduct
- One Team - we are one company, where everyone is equally important
- Go Beyond - we seek courageous and creative solutions
- Well-Being - we promote all forms of well-being
- Commitment - we are reliable and dependable in delivering quality solutions

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