Team Lead - Material Engineer

Role & responsibilities

• Lead a team of material engineers in structuring and organizing material and service descriptions using Noun and Modifiers, Class attributes, and units of measurement.
• Map material attributes, assigning group codes and logic codes (UNSPSC), to ensure accurate categorization and organization of materials and services.
• Identify maintainable spare parts and develop detailed bills of materials (BOM) in accordance with company standards.
• Maintain master data for materials, vendor information, and spare parts, ensuring all updates are performed on an SLA basis for timely accuracy.
• Oversee the coding and conversion of the existing catalog into a structured and standardized format that aligns with company objectives and industry best practices.
• Analyze source data to identify inconsistencies or gaps and perform data cleansing and enrichment to improve data quality.
• Ensure standardization of data across systems, leading efforts in data quality control and validation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including procurement, inventory management, and IT, to ensure smooth data integration across systems.
• Develop and enforce best practices for data management, ensuring that all material master and vendor master records are up to date and accessible.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior team members on cataloguing techniques and best practices for data handling.
• Report on key performance indicators (KPIs) related to data quality, cataloguing, and system integration progress.
• Ability to coordinate, review, catalogue Spare Parts Data Package (SPDP) and deliver complete structured descriptions of equipment and spare parts.
• Ability to review SPDP from Vendors, to ensure all supporting documents required from vendor for client are available and certified.
• Ensure all spare parts from vendor is matching without any discrepancy according to client Cataloging procurement Guidelines.
• Ability to support & train others on Spare Parts Data Package (SPDP) development.
• Create and Link the Equipment & Bill of Materials (BOM) to Clients plant through SAP Master Data.
• Ability to perform Data cleansing, enrichment, Maintain Data Consistency and ensure that duplicate item doesn't exist in the database.
• Create BOM (Bill of Material) based on Data sheets/Equipment Drawings / OEM Manuals.
• In case there is missing Data Sheets / Equipment Drawings / OEM Manuals, establish communication with OEM / Similar International supplier (if OEM is obsolete) to create BOM.