Materials Management and Logistics Specialist IV

Our client is located in Downtown Houston and looking to add a Materials Management and Logistics Specialist IV to their team on a 6 month contract basis (potential for extension). This role is onsite. Target Rate: $40-43.50/hr. Required: Bachelor’s degree, 8-10 years experience, Proficiency in inventory management systems and Microsoft Excel. EPC based experience. Summary : • Project Readiness: Serve as the Materials Management owner for project readiness across assigned construction and capital projects, ensuring critical materials and equipment are visible, assigned, tracked, and aligned to project execution milestones. • Delivery Monitoring: Monitor long-lead and critical-path equipment from order visibility through manufacturing, factory testing, shipment, delivery, staging, and project handoff. • Stakeholder Coordination: Partner with Construction, Engineering, Procurement, EPC contractors, Owner's Engineers, OEM suppliers, Operations, and project leadership to identify risks early and drive clear mitigation plans. • Risk Management: Translate material constraints, supplier delays, manufacturing issues, logistics risks, and quality holds into concise project impact statements, action plans, and escalation recommendations. • Executive Visibility: Provide leadership-ready reporting on project material readiness, critical equipment status, supplier performance, open actions, risk ratings, and recovery plans. Job Responsibilities: • Serve as the single point of accountability within Materials Management for material readiness across assigned capital projects and critical equipment categories. • Develop and maintain project-specific material readiness plans aligned to engineering requirements, purchase orders, construction milestones, scheduled need dates, and contractor execution plans. • Monitor delivery status for long-lead and critical-path equipment including transformers, breakers, switchgear, structures, conductor, cable, controls, and other strategic materials. • Track supplier commitments, manufacturing milestones, factory testing dates, shipment timing, logistics status, delivery forecasts, and site readiness requirements. • Identify schedule slippage, manufacturing constraints, quality holds, documentation gaps, logistics issues, and supplier risks before they impact construction execution. • Coordinate with Procurement, OEMs, EPC contractors, Owner's Engineers, logistics providers, and project teams to secure recovery plans for at-risk materials or equipment. • Facilitate recurring material readiness reviews with Engineering, Procurement, Construction, EPC partners, Owner's Engineers, Operations, and suppliers as needed. • Maintain clear action logs that identify open issues, accountable owners, due dates, required decisions, escalation needs, and closure status. • Develop and maintain reporting that provides visibility to critical equipment status, material constraints, milestone performance, risk ratings, and mitigation actions. • Partner with Engineering and Operations to evaluate strategic spare utilization, material substitution options, reservation decisions, and project prioritization when conflicts arise. • Support development of enterprise long-lead equipment visibility, including current commitments, inventory availability, future project demand, readiness risks, and potential gaps. • Escalate material readiness concerns with clear facts, business impact, options, and requested leadership decisions. • Document lessons learned from material delivery issues and recommend improvements to forecasting, supplier governance, milestone tracking, inventory readiness, and project support processes. Skills : • Ability to translate detailed supplier and project status information into concise leadership-level summaries and action plans. • Strong understanding of project material readiness, expediting, supplier follow-up, delivery monitoring, and inventory coordination. • Ability to balance urgency, accuracy, busines…

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