Project Procurement Manager
Location: Project-Based
Employment Type: Full-Time
Travel: Approximately 75% Travel Required
Lead Procurement for World-Class Mission-Critical Infrastructure
Delivering hyperscale data centers at scale requires materials, equipment, and services to arrive at the right place, at the right time, and in alignment with demanding construction schedules. Effective procurement is critical to maintaining supply continuity, protecting project milestones, controlling costs, and positioning field teams for successful execution.
As a Project Procurement Manager with Michels Infrastructure Solutions, you will lead the procurement strategy and team supporting a major data center construction project. You will work across project teams and the Michels Family of Companies to coordinate purchasing activities, manage critical suppliers, mitigate supply chain risk, and ensure procurement remains aligned with the overall construction plan.
About Michels Infrastructure Solutions
Michels Infrastructure Solutions (MIS) brings together the full capabilities of the Michels Family of Companies under a Super General Contractor (Super GC) model, providing mission-critical owners and developers with a single point of accountability for every phase of project execution. By combining self-performed specialty design, construction, and commissioning services, MIS delivers large-scale, multidisciplinary projects with greater control over safety, quality, schedule, and cost.
MIS specializes in the delivery of hyperscale data centers and mission-critical facilities, leveraging expertise across mass grading and site development, wet and dry utilities, fiber and telecommunications infrastructure, ground improvement, deep foundations, structural concrete, power infrastructure, and commissioning. Our integrated delivery approach enables customers to partner with a single-source team capable of executing some of North America's most complex and demanding infrastructure projects.
Position Overview
As a Project Procurement Manager, you will lead all procurement activities supporting a major hyperscale data center construction project. You will develop and execute the project procurement strategy, lead assigned procurement professionals, manage supplier relationships, and ensure purchasing activities remain aligned with project schedules, budgets, quality standards, commercial requirements, and procurement governance.
A key part of this role is coordinating procurement across the Michels Family of Companies supporting the project. You will maintain visibility into purchasing activities, supplier commitments, long-lead materials, manufacturing milestones, inspections, deliveries, and potential supply chain risks across multiple scopes and business units.
Success requires strong procurement and commercial expertise, leadership capabilities, strategic thinking, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams. You will play a critical role in ensuring procurement readiness, maintaining supply continuity, protecting project milestones, and supporting successful construction execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the project procurement strategy in alignment with the construction schedule, budget, project objectives, and customer requirements.
- Lead and coordinate procurement activities across affiliated Michels companies supporting the project's multidisciplinary construction scopes.
- Manage and develop procurement professionals assigned to the project, including buyers, Procurement Specialists, and expeditors.
- Establish procurement priorities, responsibilities, resource requirements, performance expectations, and reporting standards.
- Identify, evaluate, and mitigate procurement, supply chain, commercial, quality, and schedule risks before they impact project execution.
- Ensure procurement activities comply with project specifications, approved budgets, delivery requirements, quality standards, and established procurement governance.
- Maintain strong supplier relationships and lead commercial interactions supporting project procurement requirements.
- Promote a strong health, safety, environment, and quality culture throughout procurement, supplier, and material management activities.
What You'll Do
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive procurement schedule integrated with the project master schedule.
- Track critical procurement milestones including requisitions, bid events, approvals, purchase orders, manufacturing, inspections, shipment, and final delivery.
- Maintain visibility into procurement plans, supplier commitments, purchase orders, material availability, and delivery schedules.
- Coordinate with Project Management, Engineering, Construction, Project Controls, Scheduling, QA/QC, HSE, Finance, Legal, Risk, and other project stakeholders.
- Coordinate purchasing activities across sister companies to ensure individual scope requirements remain aligned with the overall project execution plan.
- Monitor supplier performance, manufacturing progress, delivery commitments, and emerging supply chain constraints.
- Lead expediting activities and corrective action efforts when procurement delays threaten project milestones.
- Identify and escalate cross-company procurement conflicts, schedule impacts, supplier issues, and commercial risks.
- Manage supplier relationships while supporting negotiations, commercial commitments, issue resolution, and performance management.
- Support resolution of supplier disputes, delivery delays, quality concerns, and other commercial issues in partnership with applicable stakeholders.
- Monitor procurement commitments, forecasts, and budget performance in coordination with Project Controls and Scheduling.
- Maintain accurate, complete, and audit-ready procurement documentation, approvals, commercial records, and project files.
- Develop and report procurement KPIs, forecasts, risks, supplier performance metrics, and corrective actions to project and business leadership.
- Participate in supplier qualification activities, supplier meetings, site visits, and audits as required.
- Provide procurement input to project risk assessments, lessons-learned reviews, execution planning, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Leadership & Team Development
- Lead, coach, and develop the procurement professionals assigned to the project.
- Establish clear priorities and accountability across purchasing, expediting, supplier management, and procurement reporting activities.
- Build a collaborative procurement environment that promotes ownership, communication, and timely decision-making.
- Partner with procurement teams across affiliated Michels companies to coordinate resources and align purchasing activities.
- Identify opportunities to improve procurement processes, tools, reporting, and project delivery practices.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement while developing the capabilities of current and future procurement professionals.
Why Michels Infrastructure Solutions, Inc.?
- We deliver some of North America's largest and most complex hyperscale data center and mission-critical infrastructure projects.
- Our Super GC model brings together specialty design, construction, procurement, and commissioning capabilities through a single-source execution approach.
- You'll work across major civil, utility, structural, power, telecommunications, and mission-critical construction scopes.
- We are family owned and operated.
- We invest an average of $5,000 per employee per year in training and career development.
- We perform challenging, meaningful work that supports cloud computing, artificial intelligence, digital connectivity, and economic growth.
- We believe everyone is responsible for promoting safety, regardless of job title.
- We are part of the Michels Family of Companies, one of North America's largest and most diversified energy and infrastructure contractors.
Comprehensive Benefits Package
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Short-Term Disability Insurance
- Long-Term Disability Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Legal Plan
- Identity Theft Protection and Monitoring Plan
Benefits may vary based on position and location.
Why You?
- You like to surround yourself with dedicated, value-driven people.
- You relish new challenges and evolving technology.
- You cringe when you hear: "Because that's the way we've always done it."
- You like to know your efforts are noticed and appreciated.
- You want to make your own decisions, but know support is always available.
- You enjoy building strong supplier relationships and solving complex procurement challenges.
- You thrive when coordinating multiple teams around a common project objective.
- You want to work to make a difference in people's lives.
What It Takes
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field preferred; an equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in procurement, purchasing, supply chain management, commercial management, or a related function.
- Demonstrated experience managing procurement activities for mid- to large-scale construction, industrial, EPC, infrastructure, or data center projects.
- Experience leading procurement activities against complex construction schedules, budgets, delivery milestones, and project objectives.
- Demonstrated ability to identify and mitigate procurement, supply chain, commercial, supplier, and schedule risks.
- Strong knowledge of purchasing processes, procurement governance, commercial terms, supplier relationship management, and supply chain practices.
- Experience developing and managing project procurement schedules, including long-lead equipment and material planning.
- Experience with supplier expediting, manufacturing milestone tracking, inspection coordination, logistics, and delivery management.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and develop procurement teams, including buyers, Procurement Specialists, and expeditors.
- Ability to coordinate across multiple business units and influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.
- Experience working closely with Project Management, Project Controls, Scheduling, Engineering, Construction, Finance, Legal, Quality, and HSE functions.
- Ability to interpret procurement data, evaluate commercial information, analyze supplier performance, and communicate procurement status and risks to leadership.
- Strong negotiation, communication, organizational, analytical, strategic decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency with procurement systems, ERP platforms, Microsoft Office Suite, and project reporting tools.
- CPSM, CSCP, CPCM, or an equivalent supply chain or contracts certification is preferred but not required.
- Experience coordinating procurement across affiliated companies or multiple business units within a complex project delivery organization is preferred.
- Ability to travel approximately 75% and support long-term onsite project assignments as required, including working within active construction-site environments.
Join a company that powers progress. Be a part of Michels Infrastructure Solutions, Inc. where you don't just build projects, you build a career.
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