Materials, Cost & Logistics Specialist

Purpose

To govern maintenance materials, cost efficiency, and logistics systems, while supporting reliability improvement projects, ensuring the implementation of technically sound and cost-effective solutions across the plant. The role acts as a bridge between engineering, planning, and procurement, ensuring that the materials, logistics, and commercial aspects of maintenance and projects are effectively aligned.

Key Responsibilities

• Cost Engineering
• Perform lifecycle cost analysis for maintenance and improvement activities
• Support and structure repair vs replace economic evaluations in collaboration with reliability engineers.
• Track, analyze and benchmark maintenance and turnaround costs.
• Identify and drive cost optimization and standardization opportunities across materials and vendors.
• Materials System Governance
• Implement spare parts strategy defined by reliability engineers
• Drive inventory optimization, standardization, and rationalization
• Manage obsolescence execution, including phase-out and replacement alignment
• Improve materials, master data and governance in SAP
• Ensure alignment between materials strategy, reliability programs, and procurement execution.
• Turnaround Materials & Logistics
• Ensure material completeness and readiness for turnaround and major maintenance events
• Coordinate long-lead items, vendor delivery, and staging plans
• Develop and maintain material logistics strategies to support efficient execution
• RFQ & Project support
• Support reliability engineers in developing RFQ packages and vendor evaluations frameworks
• Translate technical scope into clear, structured, and commercially comparable RFQ documents
• Perform Technical-commercial evaluation, including:
  
  

i. Lifecycle cost comparison

ii. Spare parts compatibility

iii. Maintainability considerations

iv. Vendor capability assessment

• Consolidate vendor proposals into clear, decision-ready comparisons
• Provide structured analysis to support reliability engineers final technical and vendor selection decisions.
• Vendor & Materials Optimization
• Support vendor performance evaluation and feedback loops
• Rationalize vendors and material specifications across the plant
• Align materials and vendor strategy with reliability and improvement programs
  
  

Qualification & Experience

• Degree in Engineering, Physical science, Supply Chain or a related discipline preferred.
• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience in procurement, materials management, or plant support roles within industrial or petrochemical environments.
• Demonstrated experience supporting:
• Maintenance and turnaround activities
• Materials and spare parts management
• Vendor coordination and RFQ processes
  

Candidates with relevant industry experience in plant maintenance, materials management, procurement, or turnaround support will be considered in lieu of a specific degree discipline.

Competencies

• Strong practical understanding of plant maintenance workflow, materials systems and vendor ecosystems.
• Ability to integrate technical, commercial, and operational considerations.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills
• Effective stakeholder management across engineering, planning, and procurement teams
• Proficiency in SAP or equivalent materials management systems