Services Specialist

Job Purpose

To handle the purchasing of nuclear and non-nuclear related services, from initiation to post-award administration for Nawah requirements to ensure that those requirements are met in a safe, compliant, timely, and efficient manner to ensure safe and reliable operation and maintenance of the Nuclear Power Plant (NPP).

Key Activities, Responsibility & Accountability

Services Procurement

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

  • Assist to prepare, plan, schedule and process the purchase of services as appropriate and in a timely and cost-effective manner to ensure safe and reliable operation and maintenance of the NPP.
  • Support nuclear supplier qualification as required, update the qualified supplier list.
  • Understand the specifications and scope of work, and ensure all Quality Assurance (QA), Health and Safety, Engineering, and end user requirements are included.
  • Assist in reviewing technical specification for the purchasing services.
  • Support end user in creation of PR and selection of correct parameters in the system.
  • Support end user in developing the Scope of Work by sending RFI’s to the market in order to gather more information about the work.
  • Challenge the Technical Evaluation Criteria (TEC) to be aligned with the SOW.
  • Obtain bidders from Supplier Relation Management (SRM) and issue Expression of Interest EOI if required.
  • Support arranging suppliers meeting and site visits, if required.
  • Develop detailed procurement plan in accordance to the defined KPIs
  • Prepare, review and issue Invitation to tender documents and ensure adherence to tender process.
  • Obtain insurance requirement for Request For Quote from Insurance Department as per the scope of work.
  • Handle and coordinate all correspondence between End users and Bidders.
  • Verify all submitted bids according to submission instructions and obtain appropriate approvals when required.
  • Review the Technical Evaluation report (TER) and challenge the results to ensure fairness and alignment with the TEC.
  • review the commercial proposals and conduct price evaluation, clarification and benchmarking to ensure that all quoted values are reasonable and arithmetically accurate.
  • Ensures terms and conditions are agreed and cleared by the bidders and resolve all exceptions & deviations
  • negotiate and/or clarify prices and terms with suppliers as requested by the management.
  • Support in preparing recommendation for award, with thorough justification to support decision as per the Delegation of Authority (DOA), and ensuring that all required information is available.
  • Prepare agreement documents for execution and conduct peer review for other team members.
  • Prepare handover to contract management Team after the execution of Out Line Agreement
  • Support team members in day to day operation, when required.

Planning, Reporting and Systems

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

  • Develop reports and statistics in area of work.

Responsibilities & Accountabilities (contd.)

Stakeholder Engagement

Responsibility and Accountabilities

  • Facilitate communication both internally and externally in order to build and encourage mutually beneficial working relationship.
  • Ensure of using the unified external communication method and templates.
  • Ensure all external communications are coded with the Enterprise- Document Control & Record Management.
  • Contribute to knowledge dissemination/sharing in a way that assists with building internal capabilities of UAE Nationals where applicable and maximize their effective performance.

Professional Certifications

Qualifications

Bachelor degree in Bussiness or Engineering or equivelant field / Master’s in Business Administration (MBA), Supply Chain Management, or Engineering

Experience

More than 3 to 5 Years of Procurement in energy sector or Power plant experience.

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