ADRIANA CORTES
Calgary,Canada
Summary
Accomplished, hands-on engineer offering distinguished career experience in project management, estimation, quality assurance, procurement, and contract management for the Oil & Gas industry. I'm knowledge driven with a strong attention to detail. Committed to a high standard of work ethic and integrity in all assigned tasks, proven success in steering multiple projects, accomplishing challenging objectives, and driving organizational improvements and with the ability to work as part of a team and leading a team. Working knowledge of ERP & CRM systems and in-depth knowledge of sales and supporting processes
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Category Specialist - Line Pipe
TC Energy
02.2023 - 11.2024
- Lead the development and formation of large scale supply agreements that drive business value and mitigate risk
- Generate and provide sourcing recommendations based on detailed analyses, business needs and market intelligence
- Responsible for maturing supplier performance improvement process and strategic supplier relationship management
- Provide assistance in facilitating technical negotiations
- Lead commercial negotiations
- Provide Class 4 and 3 level estimates, to be presented to leaders, incorporating multiple data sources and estimating techniques
- Prepare and lead proposal presentations to the Business Unit leaders
- Maintain contract records ensuring Governance requirements
- Develop, issue and manage RFx documents
- Contract and Order Management, Change Order negotiations and approval
- Cost flow reporting and analysis
- Identify and articulates cost savings opportunities based on spend, market, and business analysis
Inventory Controller
Tenaris
09.2022 - 02.2023
- Coordinate with Dispatch and Yard teams to ensure product requested by the customer is delivered as requested
- Maintain inventory information requested by dispatch and collected by yard personnel into database
- Final verification of product delivered to client as final confirmation that delivery has been completed for the last step of the supply chain process
- Planning reception of inventory by truck to verify piece, type and count in conjunction with yard crews
- Assists in shipment activities preparing Just-in-Time schedule
- Problem solves as inventory discrepancies are noticed by backtracking inventory movements in SAP
- Guarantee customer satisfaction on purchase orders
Purchasing Supervisor
Shawcor
04.2020 - 05.2022
- Responsible for Procurement Department, ordering raw material, production supplies, consumables, critical maintenance spares for continual operation of the main production site in Canada
- Summarize and track vendor compliance for quality and delivery performance
- Review Monthly Demand Forecast to determine long lead time items and process blanket orders accordingly
- Coordinate with Engineering department for successful relocation of plant equipment, managing logistic and outsourcing equipment and material with a time sensitive scheduled and budget
- Expedite delivery of goods as needed
Project Manager
Shawcor
10.2019 - 04.2020
- Worked with engineering, sales, operations, and accounting teams to determine cost comparisons and scenarios for consolidation and relocation of production lines
- Review schedule to reduce risks of business interruption and maintain market share during project execution
- Responsible to align and ensure compliance of stakeholder's requirement for meeting project deliverables
Proposal & Contract Manager
Shawcor
01.2014 - 09.2019
- Responsible for managing and prepare cost development and proposals for major projects up to $100M in revenue
- Responsible for restructuring cost models for coating solutions of 5 Canadian manufacturing sites
- Update Master price agreements and list price for main clients, recommending increases and discount tiers
- Develop market/competitive analysis and bidding/pricing strategies and solutions that could differentiate us from our competitor
- Analyze bid vs actual costs to ensure results are within the planned profit margins and to identify areas for improvement
- Independently address technical, commercial, legal, and other various issues associated with client tenders to estimate impact, analyze risks, and discuss opportunities with management, operations, supply chain and BD teams
- Follow up from Bid to handover to Operations teams, including inside sales assistance for major projects where change orders and milestone invoices were needed for progress payments
Quality Assurance Manager
Shawpipe Protection
01.2007 - 12.2013
- Responsible for maintaining ISO 9001 certification for the production plant
- Responsible to achieve ISO 17025 accreditation for the plant testing facility
- Lead auditor for ISO 17025 and ISO 9001 in Canada, Mexico and USA
- Responsible to lead preproduction meetings to clarify customer requirements for national and international onshore and offshore projects
- Review technical specifications; submit technical deviations and clarifications to adjust plant capabilities with client's requirements
- Create material and execute training sessions to promote compliance with customer requirements and corporate procedures
- Lead sessions for implementation of permanent corrective actions as needed
- Conducted regular audits to ensure adherence to established protocols, maintaining consistency across the organization
- Trained team members on quality assurance principles, fostering a culture of accountability and high performance
- Facilitated communication between departments regarding quality concerns, fostering collaboration towards shared goals
- Implemented corrective action plans based on audit findings, resulting in measurable improvements over time
- Performed root cause analysis to identify and resolve quality issues and defects
Senior Estimator
Shawpipe Protection
01.2006 - 01.2007
- Responsible for coordinating client communications from bidding until negotiation and award stage, hand over to operation for project kickoff, scheduling, clarification of requirements, review of quality plan and delivery of end product and Project history
- Point of contact for commercial and technical clarifications with national and international clients
- Conducted site visits and provided recommendations and informed advice regarding product/services
- Identified new business opportunities by articulating product value to prospective customers
- Collected historical cost data to estimate costs for current or future products
Education
Master of Science - Chemical Engineering
Instituto Tecnologico De Celaya
Executive Development Course - MBA
The McGill Executive Institute
Skills
- Inside Sales
- Project Requirements
- Bid Process Management
- PO Monitoring & Reconciliation
- Supplier Performance Evaluations
- Salesforce Software
- Interdepartmental Collaboration
- Procurement processes
- Supplier relationship management
Certification
NACE Coating Inspector Level 1, 42878
Languages
English
Full Professional
Spanish
Timeline
Category Specialist - Line Pipe
TC Energy
02.2023 - 11.2024
Inventory Controller
Tenaris
09.2022 - 02.2023
Purchasing Supervisor
Shawcor
04.2020 - 05.2022
Project Manager
Shawcor
10.2019 - 04.2020
Proposal & Contract Manager
Shawcor
01.2014 - 09.2019
Quality Assurance Manager
Shawpipe Protection
01.2007 - 12.2013
Senior Estimator
Shawpipe Protection
01.2006 - 01.2007
Executive Development Course - MBA
The McGill Executive Institute
Master of Science - Chemical Engineering
Instituto Tecnologico De Celaya
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