Start Your Career in Procurement as a Procurement Engineer

Are you looking for a next step or a kick-start to your professional career? Join us as a Procurement Engineer and play an important role in ensuring goods and materials are sourced, purchased, and delivered according to plans and specifications. You will work closely with project management, production, and suppliers while gaining hands-on experience across sourcing, purchasing, logistics, and supplier management. This is an excellent opportunity to build strong procurement expertise, develop supplier market knowledge, and contribute to the smooth execution of project and production activities. If you enjoy working independently while collaborating with multiple stakeholders, this could be the perfect role for you.

We are looking for “Project Expeditor” to be based in Pune, India. This position reports to “Senior Manager, Packaging and Tissue Procurement Asia Pacific (Global Supply)”. In this position you will have an opportunity to ensure successful deliveries to projects, and develop supplier processes around the same.

In this position, you will be required to,

• Be involved from day ‘0’ with Supplier(s) and internal Stakeholders to agree ‘Practical’ production plans for the given specification of product deliveries, with delivery milestones.
• Track activities right from raw-material ordering and following stages.
• Expedite every critical manufacturing stage: fabrication, machining, welding, assembly, coating/painting, inspection, testing and packing.
• Prepare, together with Supplier and Supplier Quality, recover/ cope-up plan to meet needed timeline.
• Physically verify progress and challenge unsupported or unrealistic supplier commitments.
• Visit supplier premises very regularly.
• Coordinate Procurement/ Supplier Quality. Logistics activities, milestone basis.
• Maintain risk registers, recovery plans and action trackers with clear owner and deadline (especially held-up actions).
• From delays’ analysis, develop OTD process for improvement of both reasons for delay and processes for good with supplier partners.   
• Provide weekly executive dashboards/ reports on scheduling.
• Include also sub-suppliers (to coordinate activities outsourced by main supplier partner).
• From delays’ analysis, develop OTD process for improvement of both reasons for delay and processes for good with supplier partners.   

To succeed this role, you will need:

• Bachelor/ master’s degree in mechanical engineering preferred
• 2~6 years of relevant experience
• Understand engineering drawing study (very well!)
• Proactive mindset
• Ability to troubleshoot issues and find solutions
• Good communication skills
• Willingness for travelling (high!)

We offer

Valmet offers an inspiring and challenging position with excellent opportunities to develop your procurement expertise and contribute to business success. You will be part of a collaborative and supportive work environment where learning, innovation, and continuous improvement are encouraged. We value our employees and provide opportunities for professional growth, modern work tools, and ongoing learning and development.

When everything works together

Valmet is where the best talent from a wide variety of backgrounds comes together. We work together with our customers throughout the entire lifecycle, delivering cutting-edge technologies and services as well as mission-critical automation and flow control solutions. Backed by more than 225 years of industrial experience and a global team of over 19,000 professionals close to customers, we are uniquely positioned to transform industries toward a regenerative tomorrow.

At Valmet, diversity of thought drives innovation. We are committed to a respectful and inclusive environment, where people can be themselves and are supported to contribute at their best. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and make hiring decisions based on skills, experience, and potential, never on personal characteristics such as gender, gender identity, age, ethnicity, nationality, disability, neurodiversity, religion, sexual orientation, or political views.

Join the team – and lead the way with us!

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