Nuclear Procurement & Supply Chain Lead

About the role

NucFinder is looking for a Nuclear Procurement & Supply Chain Lead with hands-on experience sourcing and procuring technically complex equipment and services for nuclear projects.

This is a buyer-side role. Your primary responsibility will be to translate project requirements into workable sourcing strategies, identify and assess potential suppliers, structure procurement processes and support clients through supplier selection.

You will use NucFinder's supplier intelligence together with your own procurement expertise to help utilities, EPC contractors, reactor vendors and project developers build effective and resilient supply chains.

Key responsibilities

1. • Develop sourcing and procurement strategies for nuclear equipment, systems and services.
2. • Translate project and technical requirements into supplier search and procurement criteria.
3. • Define longlisting and shortlisting methodologies for specific procurement packages.
4. • Identify potential suppliers and assess their suitability from procurement, technical, qualification and delivery perspectives.
5. • Prepare or support preparation of RFQs, RFIs, pre-qualification questionnaires and tender documentation.
6. • Structure supplier evaluation criteria and support technical-commercial bid evaluations.
7. • Support supplier pre-qualification and onboarding processes.
8. • Develop category strategies and alternative sourcing options for critical equipment and services.
9. • Analyse supplier concentration, capacity, lead-time and supply-chain risks.
10. • Support sub-vendor identification and qualification where required.
11. • Design procurement workflows and supplier-management processes for new nuclear operators and project organisations.
12. • Work with NucFinder technical and quality specialists where supplier selection requires deeper engineering or qualification assessment.
13. • Provide procurement expertise for the continued development of NucFinder sourcing and supplier-discovery tools.

Candidate profile

We are looking for a procurement professional who has actually managed nuclear or similarly complex industrial procurement packages.

Relevant backgrounds include:

1. • nuclear procurement;
2. • EPC procurement;
3. • strategic sourcing;
4. • category management;
5. • supply-chain management;
6. • vendor management;
7. • procurement engineering;
8. • owner/operator procurement.

You should have:

1. • practical experience sourcing complex engineered equipment or services;
2. • experience preparing, issuing or evaluating RFQs and tenders;
3. • understanding of supplier pre-qualification and vendor-list processes;
4. • ability to evaluate suppliers beyond price, including technical capability, qualification status, capacity and delivery risk;
5. • understanding of the interfaces between engineering, quality, project management and procurement;
6. • familiarity with nuclear documentation and traceability requirements;
7. • commercial awareness and ability to support structured supplier-selection decisions;
8. • professional working proficiency in English.

Experience working for a nuclear utility, reactor vendor, EPC contractor or major nuclear equipment supplier is a strong asset.

Additional languages relevant to major nuclear markets and supplier bases are an asset.

Typical assignments

You may be asked to:

1. • identify and shortlist potential suppliers for a defined nuclear equipment package;
2. • develop the sourcing strategy for a new nuclear project or programme;
3. • prepare the supplier-selection methodology for an RFQ;
4. • assess whether a procurement package is exposed to excessive supplier concentration or long lead times;
5. • identify qualified alternative suppliers for critical equipment;
6. • design the procurement workflow of a new nuclear project organisation;
7. • support evaluation of supplier responses during a competitive procurement process.