Job description

Petrofac seeks a Manager – Material Management in Abu Dhabi to manage, lead, and monitor all aspects of materials management to control overall materials availability—including planning, forecasting, costing, receiving, storing, and issuing—to meet project and client objectives. The role ensures compliance with HSSE policy, procedures, and legislation for self and subordinates; consolidates information from Logistics, Delivery, and Construction Managers to design warehouse and laydown area layouts; secures client approval for the Project Materials Management Plan; ensures adherence to the project execution plan and proper activity sequencing; and implements and maintains procedures, systems, and best practices for demand planning and forecasting to meet material requirements. The manager coordinates with Construction and Engineering on material identification and availability in support of installation plans, including equipment requiring special handling; reviews initial master schedules, sequences, and actual progress to ensure materials meet construction-required delivery dates; and interfaces between Construction and Procurement to identify, requisition, and set delivery dates for materials arising from design changes, rework, and scope changes in engineering take-offs. Responsibilities include interfacing with the client on forecasting, demand, and operational planning; reviewing and signing MRVs after QC inspection and client review; reviewing OSND reports and driving resolution with Expediting/Project teams; coordinating with the Preservation Engineer to ensure material preservation per procedure and vendor requirements; maintaining quarantine control for rejected materials with proper identification, storage, and reporting; reviewing MIVs to ensure issuance/transfer to construction/subcontractors; signing MRS in the system and ensuring returns are inspected, labelled, stocked, and preserved; updating the Materials Inventory System after receipts/issues/surplus with inventory reconciliation; analyzing inventory accuracy, levels versus targets, on-time shipping, and surplus/waste/scrap minimization; overseeing resolution of discrepancies and implementing controls to mitigate risks and inaccuracies; and reviewing, monitoring, and recommending enhancements to IT software including inventory control and materials information systems. The role leads the Materials Management team—organizing, staffing, recruiting, training, supervising, appraising, and recommending career paths—participates in internal and external audits (Client/PIL), represents Materials Management in management meetings, improves forecasting activities to maintain effective inventory levels, and reviews jobsite plans for warehousing, maintenance, control, handling, and efficient issue to Construction. For surplus sales, duties include identifying surplus via SMCS at construction end, reviewing and accepting Surplus Requisitions and SMRs, ensuring availability of MTCs and MSDS, arranging client handover if required, and arranging handover per Agreement for sale of Surplus Material.