European Spares

At Bakelite, you’ll help us create a better tomorrow with sustainable and innovative chemistry today. With more than 100 years of history and strong customer relationships, we boldly engineer sustainable products to tackle our world’s most challenging demands. Asset & Materials Standardisation: Develop and implement the Bakelite Europe Asset & Materials Standardisation Strategy to reduce maintenance costs, rationalise assets and materials, and deliver savings for CAPEX projects. This includes analysing inventory usage, managing tender processes and evaluating bids, maintaining the standardisation register for assets and materials, and driving the rationalisation of common assets and materials across European sites. Collaboration & Performance: Work closely with site leaders, maintenance and engineering managers, and other operational teams to set and achieve goals, objectives, and performance metrics. Lead the Tender Process (prepare and submit RFQ's) for new equipment and services for CAPEX projects and/or replacement of existing assets, and bulk purchases for maintenance held spares, components and consumables. Lead the technical bid analysis and generate the purchase requisition based on bid analysis outcome. Partner with Bakelite procurement on high-value procurement items to ensure commercial bid analysis is completed and contracts are agreed where relevant. Populate SAP (CMMS) equipment numbers to include manufacturer, model, acquisition date and value, warranty start/end, etc. for new and standardised asset, providing historical data to aid project estimations and selection of fit for purpose assets. Interact closely with Central Engineering and Maintenance Leads at each site to specify fit for purpose assets & materials for all types of applications, identifying reliable/top performers for standardisation across sites. Analyse of SAP to understand current inventory across Europe, identify opportunities for centralisation (common held spares), bulk purchasing for cost savings and high usage items for Reliability Improvement reviews. Oversee the uploading of Asset and Material data into SAP, manufacturer, model, serial number, etc. Ensuring that all relevant data is captured for future reference and easily accessed by all users of SAP-PM. Agreement on key decisions with stakeholders (site maintenance leaders, site leaders, central and site engineering resources) University degree in an engineering discipline is preferred or the necessary experience and knowledge, with proven track record of tendering for engineering equipment, being able to understand and critique the proposals and feedback. Experience in a Procurement/Tender role within the chemical industry or other process industries, with minimum 3-5 years’ experience. Must have a minimum 5 years’ experience of tendering for engineering equipment and spares. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including effective communication with others for whom English is their second language. Experience of using SAP-PM, MM & DMS is desirable All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, minority status, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability or any characteristic protected by law. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee of the Company via email, the Internet or in any other form and/or method without a valid written search firm agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of the Company; no fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by the Company as a result of the unsolicited referral or through other means. #