Principal Expeditor

**Company Overview**:
People power our future. That is why advancing a dynamic, inclusive environment, where everyone grows and thrives is critically important to us.

Our ingenuity fuels daily life. Together, we’ve forged some of the most trusted partnerships across the energy value chain to make what was once just an idea a reality: laying subsea infrastructure thousands of feet below sea level, installing offshore platforms hundreds of miles from shore, and using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure.

For more than 100 years, we've been making the impossible possible. Today, we're driving the energy transition with more than 30,000 of the brightest minds across 54 countries.

Here, what you do matters.

**Job Overview**:
McDermott has an immediate opening for a Principal Expeditor in the Houston Area. The Expeditor is responsible for expediting specific deliverables on one or more project as directed. Principal Expeditor Provides leadership, training, and instruction to other Expeditors. Ensures expediting issues are being coordinated between the other departments, offices, fabrication and construction to meet project requirements.

**Key Responsibilities and Responsibilities**:

- Reviews purchase order delivery requirements to assure quality and project requirements are met
- Identifies and understands levels of required expediting and actions workload to optimize material deliveries according to project schedule requirements and shop demands
- Includes accurate and timely expediting of Purchase Orders and MTRs
- Completes consistent and timely updates to delivery dates in the Company system, and distributes weekly expediting reports to the Project Team and to Suppliers
- Ensures Supplier’s timely delivery of all items on Purchase Orders to maintain Project schedule
- Works with procurement management to identify performance gaps and delays including engineering drawing delays, fabrication problems, delivery delays, sub-supplier management and people resources
- Ensures expediting issues are being coordinated between the other departments, offices, fabrication and construction teams to meet project requirements and deadlines
- Maintains and promotes a focus on McDermott’s end-product whether procurement, engineering, fabrication or construction related
- Ensures effective communications among procurement disciplines, clients, project teams, and suppliers
- Understanding and consistent use of expediting procedures as established in company policies.

**Essential Qualifications and Education**:

- 10+ years of procurement experience
- Demonstrates a knowledge of the expediting process as related to procurement
- Ability to effectively communicate to procurement personnel and non-procurement personnel
- Ability to work well with others

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