Capital Project Procurement Manager

Good Day!
NES Fircroft is excited to announce that our office has a brand new job opportunity with one of the country’s largest chemical and mining organizations out of their Kings Mountain, NC location for a Capital Project Procurement Manager. This individual would be employed on a contract basis and be responsible for purchasing materials, managing the supply chain, and reviewing supplier contracts for a large CAPEX expansion project. If this sounds like a great opportunity for yourself or someone you know, please reach out to Tom Rebellato at tom.rebellato@nesfircroft.com. Additional job details can be found below.

Job Details
Location: Kings Mountain, NC—Will need to be onsite 3-4 days per week.  
Hours: M-F 40 hours per week—some OT may be required.
Pay Range: $60-$70/hr. Per diem will be considered for non-local candidates.
Duration: 6 months with potential to develop into a longer term role.  

Responsibilities

• Align high-level procurement management strategies, plans to agreed-upon project success factors.
• Perform procurement related activities for capital project execution including sourcing purchasing, contracting management for capital investment projects.
• Develop project specific detailed go-to-market project procurement strategy and procurement plan, organize alignment with project team for any updates on the strategy and plan, ensure strictly follow the aligned strategy and working plan.

• Ensuring that required deviations of the prescribed rules are approved internally and audit-proof documented.
• Control procurement cost, schedule, and quality of equipment for projects execution, collaborate with category management team to ensure the procurement work are fully aligned with global category management strategy.
• Align key procurement activities decisions with project stakeholders and regional procurement management.
• Align sourcing strategy with the internal customers and stakeholders. Collect inputs from stakeholders to develop project bidder list until proper approval.
• Track procurement progress, completeness, and traceability of related documents.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure Sanction Screen Check for suppliers is well performed.
• Leverage existing category agreements, supplier discovery, management, and engagement.
• Manage and perform bidder qualification process, get proper approval following ALB’s bidder qualification procedure.
• Organize single source justification if a single source request is raised from stakeholders, review, challenge and get aligned considering the specific project nature.
• Ensure confidentiality agreement in place before bidding activities.
• Develop project procurement package activities plan, budget/funding management, maintain the dynamic plan and work and drive the stakeholders to work for procurement deliver on the plan.
• Compile technical request of RfQ and commercial request into inquiry package, manage issue to the market to the bidders from the approved bidder list on project schedule plan.
• Facilitate technical, commercial reviews, negotiations, contracting, approval workflows.
• Facilitate execution of capital procure-to-pay processes.
• Assist in change order management.
• Perform project procurement close out, capture lessons learned, provide feedback of performance of suppliers after Project completion, proper handover of the Life Cycle Asset Maintenance Data, from project team over to Operations/Maintenance team.

Job Qualifications

• Must have at least 10+ years of procurement, supply chain, and/or contracts experience.  
• Must have previous experience procuring goods for large greenfield Capital Projects.
• Must have previous industry experience in the chemicals, oil & gas, mining and/or pharmaceuticals industries.  
• Previous experience with SAP and/or Ariba would be a big plus.
• Local candidates to the Greater Charlotte, NC region are strongly preferred.

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.