Procurement Specialist

Procurement Specialist

Houston Texas 77059

Description

Intuitive Machines is an innovative and cutting-edge space company making cislunar space accessible to both public and private customers. Our mission is to further science

and exploration, communications, and economic progress from the Earth to the Moon and beyond. With the first commercial lunar landing in history, multiple NASA lunar

missions in development, and additional private missions on our manifest, we pride ourselves in supporting our customers and the nation in paving the way to return

humans to the surface of the Moon. Our world-class team includes experts in allaspects of spacecraft subsystems design, development, and test, on-orbit operations,

and safety.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Procurement Specialist to join our current team supporting the entire headquarters organization and our current and future customers. 

If selected, you will:

Procurement Management:

• Adhere to Procurement processes, standards, and operational plans. 
• Under general direction, facilitate activities associated with purchasing goods, materials, supplies, and services to ensure terms are in the organization’s best interest.
• Prepare purchase orders, approve payments, and negotiate prices to ensure the procurement process goes smoothly, under general guidance. 
• Monitors contract performance to ensure compliance with contractual obligations. Contacts suppliers to schedule or expedite deliveries to ensure resolution of problems such as shortages and missed or late deliveries.
• Ensure products are delivered on time, meet quality standards, and at the right cost.
• Maintain accurate data and scoring of vendors logs.
• Support internal ISO audit activities.
• Assure timely reporting of issues to the projects and procurement team.
• Locate, analyze, and develop a consolidated supplier base to meet current and future needs.
• Conduct the orderly closeout of Procurement operations, including settlement of claims and back-charges.

 Requisition Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree, preferably in Supply Chain Management or Business, and three (3+) years of Procurement and Supply Chain Management experience.
•  Experience in purchasing or subcontracts, including bid, evaluate, award cycle, execution of agreements, execution of changes, price and schedule negotiations, and commercial strategy.
• Proven track record in cost reduction programs
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills to flow goals and directives and effectively communicate commercial solutions and concepts to procurement personnel and non-procurement personnel.
• Ability to work in a complex schedule-driven work environment.
• Strong analytical skills, Microsoft Excel proficiency, and proficiency in procurement systems.

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