Purchasing Supervisor

**Requisition ID**:263308**
- ** Relocation Authorized**:None**:

- ** Telework Type**:Part-Time Telework**:

- ** Work Location**:Santiago**

Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.

Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers' objectives to create a lasting positive impact.

We serve the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; and Mining & Metals markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations. Core to Bechtel are our values - ethics, safety, quality, people, culture, relationships, innovation and sustainability, and our covenants - integrity, respect, collaboration, trust, and delivery. They are what we believe, what costumers can expect, and how we deliver.

**Position Summary**

Bechtel is seeking a Purchasing Supervisor for the Mining & Metals team, based in Chile. The position will be responsible for Developing and monitoring project workhour estimates and prepares Purchasing master pro-forma documents. Participating in the planning, staffing, training, and development of Purchasing personnel. Distributes workload to assigned staff.

**Responsibilities**

The Purchasing Supervisor is principally responsible for:

- Conducting personnel annual reviews. Recommending to designated manager salary actions, classification changes, terminations, and transfers.
- Indoctrinating newly assigned Purchasing personnel to the requirements and procedures of the global business unit, project, and client. Monitoring personnel to ensure they receive appropriate training and development to satisfy job performance criteria and company personnel development objectives.
- Reviewing bid tabulations for accuracy, bidder recommendation, completeness, and approves selection of suppliers within delegated approval authority. Ensuring all commitments made by subordinate personnel are accurately presented and have proper global business unit approval and signing authorities, as contained in the Procurement Procedures. Reviewing and recommending bid selections that require higher Procurement approval authority. Executing commitments within delegated signing authority.
- Communicating with Engineering and Construction supervision to assist, guide, and planning the processing of material requisitions for all project purchases.
- Developing project purchases operating procedures for review by designated supervisor and inclusion into the project procurement procedures.
- Developing project workhour estimates for Purchasing function. Monitoring project work and the expenditure of work hours within approved budgets.
- Developing and coordinating with designated manager the Purchasing personnel staffing plan so that staff are added and released in an orderly manner, in accordance with the project workload.
- Reviewing prime contract between client and Bechtel and making recommendations to designated manager to ensure appropriate provisions are reflected in the general, special, and pricing conditions of the master Purchasing pro-forma documents.
- Developing, monitoring, and maintaining project master Purchasing pro-forma documents, including legal comments to commercial terms and conditions.
- Directing negotiations and prepares proposed negotiating plan in the commitment and resolution of commercial conditions of purchases when such action is agreed as necessary by the designated manager.
- Assuring that project purchasing of equipment and materials is consistent with Bechtel Directives, Management Instructions, and Procurement Procedures.
- Coordinating Purchasing operations in both the project’s control office and support offices to assure compliance with project requirements. In conjunction with the global business unit Field Procurement Manager, provides functional guidance to Purchasing personnel at the project jobsite.

**Qualifications and Skills**

**Basic Qualifications**

The Purchasing Supervisor shall be knowledgeable and/or experienced in:

- The function of supervising workload distribution and execution of the work, as well as personnel interviewing, selection, salary planning, classification changes, performance evaluation, career counseling when delegated, training, terminations, and transfers.

**Additional Qualifications**
- Skilled in working with and communicating effectively with supervisors of other project functional groups, primarily Engineering, Construction, Project Management, and other services.
- Proficiency and experience in the formation and administration of purchase orders through the several steps of bidder prequalification, compilation of bid requests, receip