Logistics Coordinator

Logistics Coordinator

Position Summary

The Logistics Coordinator will consult across several concurrent projects for Fairweather’s Clients.  This role works as an internal consultant to project teams: it sets up logistics and supply plans, selects and manages vendors, and keeps equipment, materials, and support personnel moving through Prudhoe Bay, Kuparuk, and other remote locations.

Essential Functions

Planning, cost, and schedule control

• Build logistics plans, resource-loaded schedules, and cost forecasts for each project, including contingency for weather and access.
• Support the annual drilling program with seasonal planning for winter tundra access, summer shipping, and breakup restrictions.

Procurement and vendor management

• Solicit bids, evaluate proposals, and select vendors and service providers using documented technical, safety, schedule, and cost criteria.
• Negotiate and administer contracts, master service agreements, work orders, and change orders; track spend against project budgets and Authorization for Expenditures.
• Maintain a qualified-vendor list with performance scorecards covering safety record, on-time delivery, quality, and cost.
• Identify long-lead items early and secure supply before the seasonal window closes.

Logistics and shipping

• Coordinate equipment and materials logistics for drilling and completion operations from Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Lower 48 origins to the Slope.
• Plan and track multimodal movements: trucking, air cargo, barge and sealift, and ice road or tundra travel during winter.
• Manage inventory, warehouse and laydown yards, and returns of rental and surplus equipment.
• Track every shipment by status, ETA, and cost, and report delays before they affect rig schedule.

Compliance and communication

• Ensure shipments, hazardous materials, and waste movements meet DOT, ADEC, and company HSE and environmental requirements.
• Interact with employees, contractors, regulators, and outside vendors; run weekly logistics coordination meetings and issue clear status reports.

Multi-Project Consulting Scope

The Logistics Coordinator serves as the logistics lead and advisor for assigned drilling or completion projects, and is expected to carry several at once without letting one starve another.

• Project intake: meets with each project team at the planning stage to define scope, constraints, and logistics requirements, and recommends the supply approach.
• Shared resources: pools purchasing, freight, and laydown capacity across projects to improve pricing, avoid equipment conflicts, and share surplus inventory.
• Prioritization: ranks competing demands with the Drilling and Projects Manager using rig schedule, critical path, and safety impact, and escalates conflicts early.
• Reporting: issues a weekly status report per project and a combined portfolio view of spend, open orders, and risks.
• Advice to project teams: consults on make-or-buy, vendor strategy, contract structure, and seasonal timing, and passes lessons learned between projects.
• Coverage: names a backup for each project during rotation off and field absences.

Qualifications

Minimum

• High school diploma or GED.
• 5 or more years in the oil and gas industry, with remote Alaska experience strongly preferred.
• Direct experience supporting drill rig operations, including drilling or completion logistics.
• Demonstrated experience managing vendors, contracts, or bid processes.

Preferred

• Procurement or contracts experience, including bid evaluation and negotiation.
• Logistics experience in remote or arctic operations, including multimodal freight.
• Experience managing two or more projects at the same time.
• Prior North Slope experience at Prudhoe Bay, Kuparuk, or similar fields.
• Supervisory experience leading field support crews.

Knowledge, Skills, and Competencies

• Working knowledge of drilling and completion operations and the equipment, consumables, and services they require.
• Strong negotiation, cost analysis, and contract administration skills.
• Planning and scheduling skill across competing projects, with sound judgment under changing priorities.
• Familiarity with North Slope access, seasonal tundra and ice road rules, and Alaska shipping routes.
• Understanding of safety management, DOT hazmat, and ADEC environmental requirements.
• Proficiency with ERP or procurement systems (SAP, Oracle, or similar), Microsoft Excel, and scheduling tools.
• Clear written and verbal communication with crews, executives, regulators, and vendors.
• Leadership of field personnel, with a record of safe and respectful supervision.
• Consultative approach: advises project teams, explains trade-offs, and earns buy-in without direct authority.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT:  The majority of work takes place in an office environment with a diverse group of individuals, each with distinct roles, personalities, and skills. Trips to a remote, field environment on Alaska’s North Slope should be expected on a project-by-project basis.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:  The work is a primarily sedentary and will require sitting for long periods and typing.  During field visits, it will require routine walking, standing, bending, and carrying items weighing up to fifty pounds. Terrain may be uneven, icy, or rocky. 

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION:  It is Fairweather's business philosophy and practice to provide reasonable accommodations, according to applicable state and federal laws, to all qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities.

PREFERENCE STATEMENT:  Fairweather is a Doyon company. As such, it grants preference to qualified Doyon Shareholders first and, second, to qualified shareholders of other Alaska Native corporations that grant a similar preference, in all phases of employment and training, including, but not limited to, hiring, promotion, layoff, transfer, and training.

Fairweather is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

A review of this position has excluded marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills or abilities.

This job description is not an employment agreement or contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship. Management has the exclusive right to alter the scope of work within the framework of this job description at any time without prior notice.