Senior Expeditor - Industrial Market

Requisition ID: 182623 Job Level: Senior Level Home District/Group: DHO Kiewit Supply Network Department: Supply Chain Management Market: Industrial Employment Type: Full Time Position Overview Lead the expediting response when complex equipment, supplier performance, or manufacturing delays threaten Kiewit's project schedules. As a Senior Expeditor, you will own challenging supplier packages, test the credibility of recovery plans, and bring project and supplier leaders the facts and options needed to act. You will combine manufacturing knowledge, schedule analysis, and supplier influence to improve delivery reliability while developing the capability of other expeditors. This is a senior individual contributor role with technical leadership and mentoring responsibilities. You will work within the approved project expediting framework and recommend changes in surveillance, escalation, and resources. Formal staffing, personnel management, and program governance remain with the designated lead or manager. District Overview Kiewit Supply Network specializes in providing comprehensive procurement services to clients across the construction and engineering industries in multiple markets, including transportation; water/wastewater; power; oil, gas and chemical; building and mining. Our key objectives are to offer clients a world-class service that ensures equipment, materials and services are consistently estimated and procured at the right price and delivered on schedule. Location This position is based out of our Lenexa, KS office. Responsibilities Develop and maintain contract-specific expediting plans within the approved project framework. Manage complex, long-lead, or schedule-critical packages through engineering, manufacturing, shipment, receipt, and closeout. Contribute pre-award input on supplier schedule realism, reporting and document requirements, sub-supplier visibility, shop access, recovery expectations, and closeout deliverables for assigned high-risk packages. Challenge detailed supplier schedules, critical and near-critical dependencies, remaining durations, resource assumptions, and lower-tier commitments. Reconcile supplier dates with contractual milestones and construction or commissioning needs. Lead expediting review of supplier recovery plans. Test root cause, revised schedule logic, labor and shift assumptions, material availability, inspection readiness, and transport options. Track whether actions recover time and escalate repeat misses. Plan and lead targeted shop-expediting visits with the appropriate project approvals. Verify physical progress, capacity constraints, critical materials, sub-supplier status, and the evidence supporting promised completion dates. Resolve difficult delivery interfaces with Engineering, document control, Supplier Quality Surveillance, Logistics, and site teams. Bring supplier leadership into escalations when commitments remain unsupported or unresolved. Present delivery-risk assessments with evidence, affected milestones, options, action owners, and decisions needed. Recommend changes to package surveillance and expediting intensity through the project lead. Maintain reliable forecast history and prepare factual delay chronologies and milestone evidence for Contract Management. Route requests for cost or schedule relief, changed scope, and commercial remedies to authorized decision-makers. Lead complex supplier performance reviews and follow corrective actions. Coach expeditors in schedule analysis, supplier questioning, recovery follow-through, and report quality. Use lessons learned to improve methods and data quality. Drive follow-through on difficult receiving exceptions and incomplete final documentation so assigned packages reach closeout supported by complete records or an explicit transfer of remaining actions. Qualifications At least 7 years of relevant experience in expediting, procurement, manufacturing, construction, or project supply chain, including substantia…

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