Material Specialist

Job Title: Material Specialist

Posting Date: 18 Sept 2025

Requisition ID: 3075

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

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, and 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 by 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 materials.
• Interface with Nuclear Specification Engineering and QA for Safety quality materials & nonconformance issues resolution.
• 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 and analyzing any grounds for rejection.
• Assisting Vendors in raising Bid exception, Deviation and clarifications and getting them resolved with support of Nuclear Specification Engineering 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 and 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 ensuring that all required information is available.
  
  

Responsibilities & Accountabilities (contd.)

Professional Certifications

Qualifications

Bachelor degree in Bussiness or Engineering or equivelant

Experience

3years relevant experience in procurement/ purchasing

Pref -

Master’s in Business Administration (MBA), Supply Chain Management, or Engineering

Procurement in energy sector

Power plant experience