Spares and Materials Specialist

Full time - Permanent roles based in Brisbane CBD
- Flexible & dynamic team environment with salary and benefits to match
- Cutting edge engineering projects on offer in a growing ASX listed business

**About Verbrec**

With over 500 dedicated team members operating out of locations across Australia and New Zealand, Verbrec is a leading mid-tier ASX listed company (ASX: VBC) providing exceptional engineering, operations, and training services across the entire asset lifecycle, with a significant focus on growth into new and existing industries.

We provide services to our clients across Australia, New Zealand, PNG, and the Pacific, across the energy, infrastructure, and mining sectors, to empower them to improve efficiency and capability. We take pride in our focus on safety, while driving a strong people-focused culture to make transformations toward a sustainable and smart future.

**About the role**

This role provides crucial Asset Management advice to clients from both strategic and front-line perspectives. You will be an integral part of a high performing team executing jobs of varying sizes and complexity. To ensure your success, you will be mentored by professionals with a wealth of experience across the energy, mining, infrastructure, food and beverage and renewables industries.

As a Spares and Materials Specialist, you will work with existing national clients on asset management projects and be supported to continue our success in generating innovative, fit for purpose and cost-effective solutions for our customers. Within this role, you will:

- Work directly with customers day-to-day, driving project deliverables.
- Take a key role in developing, implementing and improving materials management systems and processes.
- Develop new or manage existing Materials Master Data
- Develop project data definition guides and configure project instances accordingly
- Carry out periodic QC to ensure project data quality as per internal quality processes and data definition guidance
- Produce reports and/or metrics for data elements of assigned projects as required
- Contribute to continuous improvement in all necessary systems, processes and procedures in delivery of projects
- Maintain an up to date knowledge of techniques and best practices appropriate to material master data management
- Provide mentoring to junior staff engaged in support of data management scopes of work
- Provide training in data management for own and client staff as required

The type of assignments may include:

- Managing Material Master Data
- Performing Spare Parts Reviews and Assessments
- Stock Holding Level Assessments
- Materials Management Framework including developing Spare Parts Philosophies, Guidelines and Procedures
- BoM Development
- MRP Analysis
- Providing Materials Master Data, Critical Spares Analysis and MRP support to a variety of Operational Readiness projects

**About you**

This role would suit a person with a background in mining, hydrocarbons or chemicals environments. The person will require excellent communication skills and proven capability to perform under pressure, individually and as part of a team.

**Key Skills & Experience**:

- A degree or trade background
- Between 8 and 15 years work experience preferably within a mining, hydrocarbons or chemical environment
- Computer Literate with good capability of MS Office suite of programs
- Proficient developing and managing one or more CMMS databases (i.e. Oracle, Maximo, SAP, JDE)
- Experience with Equipment, Bill of Materials and Maintenance Plan development.
- Experience preferably in maintenance operations and teams
- A high competence and passion to use data to drive projects and reporting.
- Demonstrated initiative to identify and extend service opportunities with existing customers.

**Behaviours**:

- Proactive safety focus for physical and process safety situations
- The energy and passion to challenge themselves, innovate and step outside their “comfort zone”
- Ability to communicate effectively to multiple levels within internal and external teams

The new **Verbrec** brand represents our evolution and continued growth by leveraging emerging techniques and technologies for the benefit of our clients. **Evolution, engineered.**

**Our Vision** - Meeting the future by engineering transformative solutions through full project and asset lifecycles.

**Our Promise to You** - We believe in passionate and innovative people delivering our success. We take pride in seeing our people continually develop their career opportunities and access wonderful employee benefits. We offer our people engaging and challenging work, the opportunity for personal success and, a fun and friendly culture. We are an inclusive workplace and we believe in diversity and opportunity for all.