Sr Supply Chain Contract Specialist

Position Overview

Kiewit is one of North America’s largest and most respected construction and engineering organizations. With its roots dating back to 1884, the employee-owned organization operates through a network of subsidiaries in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Kiewit offers construction and engineering services in a variety of markets including transportation; oil, gas and chemical; power; building; water/wastewater; industrial; and mining. 

Our procurement team, known as Kiewit Supply Network supports all of our market areas and focuses on delivering the best equipment, materials and services to our organizations.  We are adding a Senior Supply Chain Contract Specialist to our team to support our Western region Infrastructure projects.  Our Infrastructure team builds roads, bridges, dams, rail and transit, aviation and underground projects.  In this role, you will own contracts from start to finish for your assigned materials/equipment and services.  You will be expected to negotiate T's and C's on contracts, purchase materials, manage pricing and quantities, monitor shipments and resolve material and equipment issues.  This is a great opportunity for an early to mid-career Supply Chain professional that wants to grow and advance their career in procurement, complex contracts and learn more about construction.  We’re looking for a team player that is eager grow, & able to drive processes within the supply chain functions so that our project teams can deliver complex projects on time and within budget.  

District Overview

Kiewit is one of North America’s largest and most respected construction and engineering organizations.  ENR recently ranked us as #1 in several markets out of 400 GC's in North America.  We work in a variety of markets including oil and gas/petrochemical, transportation, all power markets, building, water/wastewater, industrial and mining.  We hire the best people to work on some of the most important (and largest) projects in North America in our industries and believe in training and developing our employees to become future leaders! Our clients come to us because of our safety, and quality focus and our ability to deliver.
 

Kiewit Supply Network group specializes in providing comprehensive procurement services to clients across the construction and engineering industries in multiple markets Our key objectives are to offer clients a world-class service focused on ensuring equipment, materials and services are consistently estimated and procured at the right price. We strive to offer an appropriate level of quality and ensure materials and services are delivered on schedule and in compliance with the client’s specifications and expectations.
 

Location

This position could be located out of our Lone Tree, CO OR Westlake, TX Offices 

Responsibilities

• Provide all aspects of supply chain management and procurement support for our projects, including but not limited to contract development, execution, administration, and management. 
• Liaise effectively amongst legal, construction, engineering, and management to timely and efficiently execute contracts and escalate and resolve issues.
• Implement and maintain consistent procurement practices and procedures to deliver value add services to our projects in accordance with project, district and corporate policy and expectations.
• Act as a front line resource for all things Procurement for our projects including supplier quality surveillance, logistics, expediting, materials management and category management,
• Cross functional coordination amongst multiple disciplines, departments, projects, and districts,
• Management of ERP administration, procurement reporting, and issue escalation/coordination.
• Procurement documentation drafting, reviewing, coordination of internal/external approvals as appropriate, negotiating, execution, administration, document control and issue mitigation.     
• Develop and maintain vendor relationships and assist/manage vendor negotiations.
• Coordinate with staff, users and vendors to address defective work or unacceptable goods or services and determine appropriate corrective action.
• Leverage vendors/subcontractors across multiple procurements to create cost savings to projects.
• Research and evaluate suppliers based on price, quality, selection, service, support, availability, reliability, production and distribution capabilities and the supplier’s reputation and history.
• Monitor shipments to ensure equipment and materials arrive in an appropriate timeframe and of appropriate quality that the meet project requirements, and work with the projects to timely escalate and resolve delivery and/or quality issues. 
• Prepare/issue Request for Proposals (RFP’s) and evaluate vendor/subcontractor proposals to identify vendors/subcontractors who meet project constraints of budget and schedule at the estimating, execution and site purchasing levels.
• Assist in the development of company-wide procurement templates. 
• Assist in negotiating high-risk contracts for various projects.
• Work to resolve escalated, complex, or disputed contract issues.
• Support procurement staff meetings and provide legal communication to the team as needed.
   

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Construction Management or related/relevant experience  
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in a Contracts, Engineering and/or Construction related role 
• Minimum of 1 years' negotiation experience
• Experience and understanding of Contracts
• Thorough understanding of all areas of procurement is desirable, including without limitation procurement execution, estimating, expediting, contracts management and closeout
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Power Point, Word, Excel) 
• General knowledge of database utilization and ERP functionality experience is a plus
• Highly motivated, with a demonstrated passion for excellence and taking initiative 
• Strong work ethic, willing to do what it takes to get the job done right the first time.  
• Strong individual contributor and team player with ability to build relationships
• Demonstrated commitment to ethics and integrity. 
• Passion for safety, with the ability to help us ensure that nobody gets hurt. 
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills