Materials Coordinator (Papua LNG)
Summary
Oversees warehouse operations for a Papua New Guinea LNG project, ensuring materials are issued to site on time while managing logistics, compliance, and team leadership.
Reporting to the Construction Manager, this role is responsible for managing day-to-day operations of the warehouse. Also ensuring that required materials are issued to site in line with project requirements, through liaising with construction manager and logistics provider.
- Providing leadership to the warehouse team
- Compliance with Wood supply chain procedures
- Timely issuing and management of required materials to job sites
- Arranging in country material movement from PNG suppliers where required
- Ensuring goods receipts in procurement system and allocation to warehouse location
- Ensure adequate systems tracking of material status whilst materials are in transit and at warehouse
- Maintaining data integrity in Procurement & materials systems
- Assuring material deliveries aligned to inbound transport/supply schedules
- Flexibility required, as some hands-on warehousing duties will be required
- Driving the warehouse function to ensure incident free operations, outstanding customer service and cost competitiveness
- Ensuring the key processes within the warehouse is effective and highly visible
- Fostering a culture of continuous improvement for warehousing.
- 5+ years’ experience in similar role
- Strong, enthusiastic commitment and approach to personal safety
- Previous experience in a complex Warehouse Management role
- Knowledge of logistics (carriers, shipping policies & procedures)
- The ability to analyse and solve complex problems
- Thorough working knowledge of warehouse management system application Expertise in coordinating risk assessments & JSA’s
- Understanding of equipment vendor and materials fabricator storage, handling, preservation and despatch requirements
- The ability to work with the shop floor through to the Senior Management level
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Customer focused service skills
- Sound communication skills and the ability to communicate at all levels across the contract
- Business software competency (MS Office/Oracle/VPRM)
- Previous experience in a similar role would be an advantage.