Buyer

Job Purpose

• Buyer sources, procures, and manages suppliers for drilling operations to ensure timely, compliant, and cost-effective delivery of materials,
• services, and rental equipment that sustain rig uptime and operational continuity.

Responsibilities & Duties

Safety & Compliance Duties

• Maintains the highest standards of corporate governance, ensuring that all activities are carried out ethically and in compliance with the
• Company’s QHSSE policies, Management System, Zero Tolerance policy, relevant laws, regulations, standards, and industry practices,
• and complies with the ADES WAY, rules to live by.
• Will be a champion of Safety, providing exemplary leadership and commitment to all safety initiatives within the business.
• Places Safety as a true north, while never intentionally placing employees, our processes, customers, or the communities in which we live
• and work at risk.
• Will ensure that safety protocols are always adhered to.

End-to-end Purchase Management

• Reviews requisitions for completeness, technical specification alignment, and budget approval before release.
• Creates and issues purchase orders with clear scope, delivery terms, incoterms, and acceptance criteria.
• Monitors PO lifecycle from issue to closeout and escalate aging POs to stakeholders.

Sourcing and Category Management

• Maintains up-to-date category strategies for consumables, inventory, rental equipment, chemicals, and services.
• Runs RFQs rounds for recurring categories; prepare total cost of ownership (TCO) comparisons that include freight, customs, downtime
• risk, and rental rates.
• Builds and maintains approved supplier lists and alternate supplier sources for critical items to reduce single-source exposure.

Supplier Qualification and Performance Management

• Pre-qualify suppliers against defined technical, commercial, HSE, and local content criteria; manage onboarding checklists and required
• certifications.
• Implement supplier performance scorecards tracking on-time delivery, quality, corrective action rate, and contract compliance, review
• monthly with top vendors.
• Leads supplier corrective action requests (SCARs), track root cause analysis, and supervise remediation plans until closure.

Contracting, Negotiation, and Commercial Controls

• Embeds commercial controls such as price-fix, escalation clauses, warranty terms, and liability limits into contracts.
• Maintains audit-ready procurement files and commercial justification records for spend over threshold.
• Works directly with operations and technical teams to confirm item codes, part numbers, interchangeability, drawing revisions, and RFIs.
• Attends weekly operational planning meetings to align supply plans with operations schedules and identify long-lead items early.
• Supports change order processing and cost allocation when scope changes occur in the field.

Risk Management and Contingency Planning

• Identifies single-point failures and long-lead critical items; create mitigation plans including strategic stocking, second source qualification,
• and local vendor development.
• Maintains a contingency parts list and emergency procurement playbook for rapid sourcing during well control events or rig breakdowns.
• Monitors geopolitical, trade, and regulatory risks affecting supplier continuity and propose proactive mitigation to procurement leadership.

Continuous Improvement, Reporting, and Compliance

• Drives cost reduction initiatives through vendor consolidation, volume agreements, and process standardization; quantify savings and
• update category baselines.
• Maintains monthly procurement dashboards showing PO status, lead time trends, vendor performance, and risk heat maps for operations
• and procurement leadership.
• Enforces compliance with company procurement policy, HSE standards, local content rules, and any client-specific procurement
• requirements; support internal and external audits.

Training and Stakeholder Enablement

• Coaches’ operations personnel on proper requisition practices, specification writing, and supplier selection to improve purchase quality.
• Develops quick reference guides for emergency procurement, rental booking, and documentation checklists used by field staff.
• Provides handover notes and procurement support during rig mobilization and demobilization phases

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in, Business Administration, supply chain management, or logistics from any reputable university.
• Minimum 2-4 years as a procurement specialist, expeditor, or similar role, preferably in the Oil & Gas field.