Summary:
TETRA Technologies, Inc. is a global organization whose foundation and strength comes from the drive and dedication of our team members. Our culture is that of inclusion and an unwavering belief that both our past and future success are due to the diversity of our employees and their competitive spirit.
Founded in 1981, TETRA Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: TTI) is a geographically diversified industrial and oil and gas products and services company, focused on completion fluids, calcium chloride, water management solutions, frac flowback and production well testing services.
TETRA is evolving its business model by expanding into the low carbon energy markets with its chemistry expertise, key mineral acreage, and global infrastructure. Low carbon energy initiatives include commercialization of TETRA PureFlow, an ultra-pure zinc bromide clear brine fluid for stationary batteries and energy storage; advancing an innovative carbon capture utilization and storage technology with CarbonFree to capture CO2 and mineralize emissions to make commercial, carbon-negative chemicals; and development of TETRAs lithium and bromine mineral acreage to meet the growing demand for oil and gas products and energy storage.
Requirements:
- Successfully communicate forecast and inventory estimations to management
- Modeling relevant data (such as customer forecast information; market information; etc) to forecast future demand
- Propose and implement solutions to improve demand forecast accuracy
- Monitor and report on important changes in sales forecasts, budgets, and business strategies that could impact supply and demand forecasts
- Collecting, organizing and presenting data from internal and external sources on factors known to affect supply and demand
- Analyzes market and delivery conditions to determine present and future material availability, and provide recommended actions to address
- Recommend, implement, and maintain (working with Operations Management) inventory management philosophies (ex: min/max, KANBAN, etc)
- Maintains procurement records per company policy, such as items or services purchased costs, delivery, product quality or performance, and inventories.
- Develops and manages a system to evaluate vendor quotations that utilizes appropriate negotiation and purchasing techniques to ensure best quality, price, delivery, and service
- Discusses defective or unacceptable goods or services with inspection or quality control personnel, users, vendors, and others to determine source of trouble and take corrective action
- Prepares and issues purchase orders and change of notices
- Reviews purchase order claims, contracts, and invoices for conformance to company policy
- Prepares and reviews contracts, bids, proposals, and vendor agreements for legal correctness, price, and acceptability of items to specifications
- Ensures procured items are supplied with adequate documentation and that all documentation is made available to the engineering staff
- Works with suppliers to obtain product or service information such as price, availability, and delivery schedule
Essential Duties:
- EDUCATION: Bachelors Degree in Business or field related
- EXPERIENCE: 3-5 years experience in procurement in Specialty Chemicals
- TRAVEL: 5%
- OTHER: Previous experience with Oracle, JD Edwards and E1 would be preferred
Work Environment:
The requirements are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.
While performing the duties of any field-based position, an employee may be exposed to various outside weather conditions including but not limited to rain, humidity, snow, and/or heat during daytime hours and/or nighttime hours. The noise level in this work environment is usually moderate to loud for extended periods of time.