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About Us
At Technip Energies, we are more than just a leading engineering and technology company — we are pioneers committed to shaping a sustainable future. With thousands of talented professionals worldwide, we deliver innovative solutions to real-world energy challenges while fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment.
Join us on a one-of-a-kind journey where you can take pride in being part of the solution for the benefit of our planet, people, and communities.
Position Summary
The Site Indirect Buyer is responsible for planning, sourcing, negotiating, placing, administering, and closing out purchase orders and service commitments required to support construction-site operations. The role converts approved site requirements into compliant commercial commitments, secures appropriate competition and value, and maintains complete procurement records from requisition through final closeout.
This position operates in an integrated site and Home Office Procurement model. Site Construction establishes day-to-day priorities, required-at-site dates, technical scopes, and field needs, while Home Office Procurement retains functional oversight, policy ownership, sourcing standards, procurement governance, commercial escalation, and performance management. The Site Indirect Buyer is expected to respond quickly to construction needs while maintaining delegated authority, competition, compliance, approval, and documentation requirements.
The role primarily supports indirect materials and services that enable construction and field operations but are not incorporated into the permanent facility, including temporary facilities, site services, consumables, small tools, rental equipment, logistics, security support, catering, communications, and other approved construction indirect requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Functional Responsibilities
- Receive and review purchase requisitions and authorized site requests, confirming business need, scope, quantity, delivery location, required-at-site date, budget/cost code, technical owner, acceptance criteria, and applicable HSE or site-access requirements.
- Prepare and issue requests for quotation, bid invitations, and other approved competitive sourcing documents using approved supplier lists, local market knowledge, category guidance, and required prequalification processes.
- Provide controlled and consistent information to bidders, manage clarifications and addenda, and evaluate price, total cost, schedule, capacity, commercial terms, risk, HSE/quality requirements, and supplier compliance.
- Prepare commercial bid tabulations and documented award recommendations; obtain required written justification and approvals for sole-source or single-bid situations.
- Develop negotiation plans and negotiate price, freight, lead time, payment terms, warranty, cancellation, change control, service levels, insurance, and other applicable commercial provisions.
- Create accurate purchase orders, service orders, releases, and amendments in the designated ERP/procurement system and ensure commitments reflect approved scope, pricing, schedule, taxes, cost coding, terms, conditions, and attachments.
- Expedite critical materials and services against required-at-site dates, identify delivery slippage early, secure recovery plans, and coordinate delivery requirements with site logistics, warehousing, security, construction, and receiving personnel.
- Manage commercial communications involving substitutions, partial deliveries, backorders, cancellations, schedule changes, and supplier commitments while providing clear status and exception reporting to site stakeholders.
- Coordinate receiving and service-entry confirmation, investigate invoice discrepancies, monitor open commitments and accrual needs, and support timely purchase-order closeout.
- Maintain complete and auditable procurement files from requisition and sourcing through approvals, commitment documents, correspondence, changes, receipt evidence, invoice resolution, and final closeout.
Leadership / Management Responsibilities
- Maintain frequent coordination with Site Construction to understand current priorities, challenge incomplete requirements, and communicate sourcing status, alternatives, risks, and commercial impacts.
- Work effectively with a remote Home Office Procurement manager and follow functional governance, reporting, sourcing, approval, system, and escalation requirements.
- Coordinate with Cost Control/Finance, HSE, Quality, Security, requestors, technical owners, logistics, and receiving personnel while preserving appropriate segregation of duties.
- Maintain a visible priority list aligned with the construction plan and site constraints, balancing urgent field needs with compliant procurement execution.
- Share supplier-market intelligence, lessons learned, and procurement issues with the Home Office Procurement organization and support knowledge transfer for site personnel participating in the purchasing process.
- Promote early Procurement engagement, ethical supplier interactions, and the principle that suppliers must not begin work or incur costs without proper authorization.
Compliance / Operational Responsibilities
- Act only within assigned procurement scope, system access, and documented delegation of authority; negotiate and recommend awards only within applicable approval and signature requirements.
- Ensure suppliers do not begin work, ship goods, incur costs, or change scope before required commercial commitments and approvals are in place.
- Maintain fair competition and impartial supplier treatment; do not split purchases, alter dates, misclassify scope, or use emergency language to circumvent competition or approval thresholds.
- Confirm suppliers satisfy applicable registration, sanctions screening, insurance, tax, HSE, quality, security, and site-access requirements before engagement or mobilization.
- Manage purchase-order changes using authorized scope, pricing basis, schedule impact, supporting records, and approvals; maintain change logs and escalate claims, unauthorized work, disputed invoices, or material commercial exposure.
- Support genuine urgent or emergency site requirements through approved escalation, parallel review, existing agreements, approved suppliers, and documented emergency channels rather than bypassing required controls.
- Maintain accurate procurement, ERP, sourcing, document-management, reporting, receiving, invoice, and closeout records suitable for audit and project closeout.
- Immediately escalate suspected fraud, bribery, conflicts of interest, safety/security/quality concerns, supplier failure, threatened claims, unauthorized commitments, record manipulation, or other significant commercial risks.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Construction Management, Logistics, Engineering, or a related discipline preferred; equivalent relevant field procurement, construction support, or commercial experience may be considered.
- Typically three (3) to seven (7) years of progressive purchasing, procurement, materials, subcontract administration, or supply-chain experience.
- Demonstrated experience issuing and administering purchase orders for indirect materials and services.
- Experience with competitive bidding, bid evaluation, negotiation, supplier onboarding, expediting, invoice discrepancy resolution, and order closeout.
- Prior experience supporting an industrial construction site, EPC project, energy project, manufacturing facility, or other fast-paced field environment is strongly preferred.
- Experience working across a site organization and centralized or Home Office Procurement function is preferred.
Role Specific Knowledge & Skills
- Working knowledge of the purchase-to-pay lifecycle, procurement ethics, competitive sourcing, basic contract terms, freight/delivery terms, change control, and records management.
- Ability to interpret requisitions, statements of work, quotations, rate sheets, purchase-order terms, supplier exceptions, and commercial comparisons.
- Proficiency with an ERP or procurement platform such as SAP, Oracle, or an equivalent system.
- Strong Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, and Teams skills with the ability to maintain trackers, analyses, and concise reports.
- Basic understanding of cost coding, commitments, receipts, invoice matching, taxes, and accruals.
- Familiarity with industrial site-access, supplier HSE, insurance, quality, and security requirements.
- Strong commercial judgment with the ability to balance price, schedule, risk, quality, supplier capability, and total cost.
- Strong planning, prioritization, negotiation, communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and attention-to-detail skills in a high-tempo construction environment.
Additional Information
- This is a site-based position assigned primarily to a construction site or field office and requires compliance with all site induction, PPE, security, access, and HSE requirements.
- The project schedule may include extended hours, early starts, weekends, or temporary schedule changes based on approved site needs. Local travel to supplier facilities or other project locations may also be required.
- Background checks, drug and alcohol testing, driving requirements, and other employment conditions are subject to project location, applicable law, and company policy.
- Candidates must be U.S. citizens. U.S. citizenship is required for this position.
- No current or future employment sponsorship will be provided for this position.
