Senior Material Specialist

Job Title: Senior Material Specialist

Posting Date: 18 Sept 2025

Requisition ID: 3074

Company: NAWAH (ENEC Operations)

Location: Barakah

Posting Status: Active Recruitment

Job Purpose

To handle the purchasing of nuclear and non-nuclear related materials, equipment 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

Activity

Procurement

Responsibilities And Accountabilities

• Prepare, plan, schedule and process the purchase of spare parts, tools, materials, and equipment, 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/Material Masters, ensure all Quality Assurance (QA), Health and Safety, Engineering, and end user requirements are included.
• Review technical specification for the purchasing materials and equipment
• Assist end user in creation of PR, help them in selection of correct parameters in the system.
• Assist end user in developing the Scope of Work/Material masters through sending RFI’s to the market in order to gather more information about the work.
• Arrange suppliers meeting with the end user and site visits for suppliers, if required.
• Review PR in the system and check the frequency of consumption of materials, if there is any potential of creating strategic contracts for required materials
• Interface with Engineering and QA as necessary to Safety quality materials and resolve non conformance issues if any.
• Assess quotes ensuring that they are allowable under policies and allocated budgets.
• Review competitive bids, quotes by evaluating proposals, reviewing with requesters and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and analyzing any grounds for rejection.
• Assisting Vendors in raising Bid exception, Deviation and clarifications and getting them resolved with support of PE which includes necessary changes in the material master
• Discuss and resolve issues related to supply of materials with the support of related departments - QA, Specification engineering, Inventory management, Warehouse, Logistics etc.
• Prepare the Commercial Evaluation
• Ensures terms and conditions are agreed by the vendors, none of the clauses should be open.
• Meet and negotiate and/ or clarify terms with vendors as requested by the management.
• Prepare recommendation for award, with thorough justification to support decision as per the Delegation of Authority (DOA),and ensure that all required information is available.
• Prepare and issue the final Purchase Order /Outline Agreement for signature, help other team members in peer review.
  
  

• Co-ordinate with supplier, warehouse and Quality Assurance, if any Non Conformity Report (NCR) /Over, Short, Damaged & Discrepant (OSDD) raised after the receipt of material.
• Assist head and other team members in day-to-day operation.
• Work with specification engineering and suppliers to find alternatives for obsolete items
• Assisting inventory management in analyzing and forecasting material requirement for online and outage workorders
• Identifying all potential suppliers for the materials in the PR based on the various additional details provided in the Material masters
• Proactively identifying potential vendors for the supply of materials installed in BNPP and registering and qualifying them with the support of QA and SRM team