SSOC 2024 unit
Manufacturing Verified · 21 Mar 202421498
Procurement engineer
Procurement engineer oversees the purchase of technical goods and services to support engineering projects and industrial operations. He/she translates projects’ technical and engineering requirements into specifications for materials, equipment and services to procure. He/she evaluates suppliers and negotiates purchase agreements with them, as well as maintaining vendor contract records and databases, and following up on vendors’ deliverables.
Level
unit
Mapped ISCO
1
Source
SingStat
In this unit group: sibling units
Official data
| Official name | Singapore Standard Industrial Classification (SSOC 2024) |
| Issuing authority | Department of Statistics Singapore (SingStat / DOS) |
| Tax authority | Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) (IRAS) |
| Purpose | Classifies occupations in Singapore for labour statistics, workforce planning, and international reporting. |
| Active version | SSOC 2024 (21 Mar 2024) |
| Hierarchy level | Unit (final leaf, 5-digit) |
| Source | https://www.singstat.gov.sg/standards/standards-and-classifications/ssic |
| Prior versions | SSIC 2020, SSIC 2015 |
Definition & tasks
Procurement engineer oversees the purchase of technical goods and services to support engineering projects and industrial operations. He/she translates projects’ technical and engineering requirements into specifications for materials, equipment and services to procure. He/she evaluates suppliers and negotiates purchase agreements with them, as well as maintaining vendor contract records and databases, and following up on vendors’ deliverables.
Tasks
No tasks listed.
Examples
Under this unit
No examples found.
Elsewhere
• Procurement manager, see 13242 • Technical purchaser, see 33232
Hierarchy context
Major group
2 PROFESSIONALSSub-major
21 SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALSMinor group
214 ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS ICorrespondence tables
SSOC 2020
- 21498 — Procurement engineer
ISCO-08
- 2149 — Engineering professionals not elsewhere classified
Alphabetical index entries
Data source: Department of Statistics Singapore (SingStat / DOS) (https://www.singstat.gov.sg/standards/standards-and-classifications/ssic). Official SSOC 2024 workbooks.
Last refresh: 21 Mar 2024. Version: SSOC 2024.