Contracts Engineer Specialist at Multinational Logistics and Allied Services Limited

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for stewardship and management of technical tendering phase and to monitor all phases of tendering processes for goods and services used in support of Nigeria Drilling operations. The primary focus is the technical phase of the contracting cycle.
• Ensure that these operations are conducted in accordance with the Procurement Acquisitions Handbook, RACI Process Chart, Controls Integrity Management Systems (CIMS), Redbook, DOAG, OIMS, QA/QC Guidelines, Export Control guidelines, and other MPN practices and policies.
• Interface between Drilling, law, and Procurement. Collaboration with Vendors and NAPIMS on technical clarifications to our position. Expedite and follow up on all tender requests to completion.
• Needs assessment planning for initiating technical scoping for each service assigned. The needs assessment planning should include reviewing current agreement & amendments, review well plan design, analyzing IPES agreement spend detail, search & locate in SPIKE comparable scopes of work from other drill teams, interviews with engineering/operations personnel (e.g. NPT, NCRs, KPIs, 3rd party reimbursable and price book usage), vendor interviews on developing technology and NCD for the development of NC plan.
• Initiate and lead the needs assessment planning meeting with all stakeholders for the development of a contracting strategy while gaining alignment with Procurement, NAPIMS and NCD-MB.
• Develop the technical scope of work, market basket, coordination procedures, company estimates, Export Control review & reporting and evaluation template. Coordinate functional approvals to completion.
• Provide technical assistance to Procurement for each assigned service during tendering process.
• Lead the technical evaluations exercise, reconcile results with stakeholders, coordinate logistics of site visits and lead team on site visits of each technically qualified bidder. Draft final technical evaluation reports and coordinate the functional approval to completion.
• Assist procurement with commercial evaluation template development and bid evaluation.
• Stewardship of tendering process for assigned services to completion and execution of agreement. This includes frequent follow ups with Procurement, responding to clarifications, data requests, assist in problem solving, monitor current agreement expiration dates for setting work priorities and/or other actions.
• Maintain tendering tracking report with progress, activities, and issues.
• Lead the monthly tender status meeting with stakeholders for each service tendered.

Requirements

• Knowledge of MLAS (NAPIMS) contracting process
• Understanding of Agreements Terms and Conditions
• Knowledge of Drilling's use of materials and services used in its operations

Skills:

• Minimum of 6 years drilling operations experience in a supervisory role.
• Verbal and Written (business & technical) Communications
• Organizational & Planning experience
• Ability to analyze & recommend solutions to issues.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing work environment and to work under tight deadlines/pressure
• Computer (MS Word, Excel), IPES (SAP) & Spike
• People Skills & ability to work with multiple cultures and disciples
• Problem Solving