European Tender Analysis Engineer

Join to apply for the European Tender Analysis Engineer role at BakeliteAt Bakelite, you'll help us create a better tomorrow with sustainable and innovative chemistry today.We're Everywhere.Everywhere you look, you'll find products enabled by Bakelite, from stronger homes to safer automobiles and everywhere in between.With more than 100 years of history and strong customer relationships, we boldly engineer sustainable products to tackle our world's most challenging demands.Join Our Team and Help Us Build a Stronger, Safer, Better World.It's Better with Bakelite.Europe Tender Analysis Engineer (all genders)What does a typical day look like?These are your main tasks: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.Subject Matter Expertise: Act as SME for purchasing and management of assets and spares, providing guidance to ensure cost savings and standardisation at each location.Collaboration & Performance: Work closely with site leaders, maintenance and engineering managers, and other operational teams to set and achieve goals, objectives, and performance metrics.What exciting challenges will you take on in this role?These are your Job ResponsibilitiesLead the Asset & Materials Standardisation initiatives across Europe, ensuring sites are embedded in the processes to identify opportunities for standardisation and also when they should obtain guidance/instructions on purchases.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.Create the purchase requisitions for standard/low value equipment from trusted vendors.Lead and Manage the Standardisation Register for New purchases, whilst updating to include existing assets with the support of the central pillars and maintenance teams located at each site.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.The role-holder has jurisdiction to make decisions relating to:Agreement on key decisions with stakeholders (site maintenance leaders, site leaders, central and site engineering resources)Standardization of spares, assets, and consumablesWhat is required to be successful in this role?(Education & Experience)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.i.e. vessels, piping, tanks, pumps, motor, etc.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 desirableTravel for periods within Europe (typical duration 1 week) when business requires.Equal Opportunity StatementWe are an Equal Opportunity, Affintive Action employer.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.DisclaimerWe are not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms/employment agencies for this employment opportunity.Please, no phone calls or emails to an employee about this position.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.Seniority levelMid-Senior levelEmployment typeContractJob functionEngineering and Information TechnologyIndustriesChemical ManufacturingGet notified about new Analysis Engineer jobs in Solbiate Olona, Lombardy, Italy.#J-*****-Ljbffr