Senior Project Procurement Manager

Senior Procurement Manager

 

Location: Vancouver, Canada

 

Summary:

The Senior Procurement Manager will lead the Owner’s Procurement function for a major mining project, overseeing the strategic procurement of equipment, materials, and services required to successfully execute a multi-billion-dollar capital project. This senior leadership role is responsible for developing and implementing procurement strategy, providing governance and oversight of EPC/EPCM procurement activities, and ensuring that procurement outcomes are commercially competitive, technically compliant, delivered on schedule, and aligned with project execution requirements.

The successful candidate will work closely with Project Management, Engineering, Construction, Project Controls, Contracts, Finance, Operations, HSE, and EPC/EPCM partners to ensure procurement is fully integrated with the overall project execution strategy. This position is ideal for an experienced procurement leader with a strong background in large-scale mining, infrastructure, energy, or heavy industrial capital projects and complex international supply chains.

 

Job Duties:

Procurement Strategy & Leadership

• Develop and implement the overall Owner Procurement Strategy aligned with the project’s capital execution strategy.
• Establish procurement plans, sourcing approaches, governance frameworks, and performance standards suitable for a mega-project environment.
• Develop and implement procurement policies, procedures, systems, standards, and reporting structures.
• Establish procurement organization structures, staffing plans, roles, responsibilities, and interfaces across Owner and EPC/EPCM teams.
• Provide strategic leadership and direction to the project procurement organization.
• Ensure procurement activities support project schedule, budget, technical requirements, construction sequencing, commissioning, and start-up objectives.

EPC/EPCM Procurement Governance

• Provide oversight and governance of EPC/EPCM procurement activities to ensure alignment with approved project strategies and contractual requirements.
• Establish procurement reporting and performance management requirements for EPC/EPCM organizations.
• Monitor key procurement activities including supplier qualification, tendering, bid evaluations, negotiations, purchase order management, manufacturing progress, inspection, expediting, logistics, and delivery.
• Review and challenge procurement recommendations where necessary to protect project interests.
• Ensure appropriate participation in critical and high-value procurement decisions.

Strategic Sourcing & Commercial Management

• Lead sourcing strategies for major equipment, materials, and services.
• Develop market intelligence and supplier strategies for critical commodities and long-lead equipment.
• Implement commercial strategies to manage cost escalation, foreign exchange exposure, inflation, commodity volatility, logistics constraints, supplier capacity, and geopolitical risks.
• Lead or support negotiations with strategic suppliers and international vendors.
• Ensure sourcing decisions consider total installed cost, lifecycle cost, schedule, quality, risk, and operational requirements.

Expediting, Inspection & Logistics

• Establish procurement progress monitoring, supplier expediting, inspection, logistics, and material readiness requirements.
• Integrate procurement activities with material management and construction readiness plans.
• Maintain visibility of critical equipment and materials from purchase order award through site delivery.
• Support construction work-front requirements and commissioning priorities.
• Develop escalation processes for delayed or at-risk deliveries.

Cost & Schedule Management

• Ensure procurement commitments align with approved project budgets and cost baselines.
• Monitor procurement commitments, forecasts, savings opportunities, contingencies, allowances, and commercial exposures.
• Collaborate with Project Controls to identify and mitigate procurement impacts on project cost and schedule.
• Support procurement cash-flow forecasting and financial planning activities.
• Identify opportunities for value engineering, cost optimization, alternative sourcing, and commercial improvement.

Team Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing procurement team.
• Establish clear accountability, performance metrics, and professional development objectives.
• Build procurement capabilities across sourcing, supplier quality, expediting, materials management, and supply chain risk management.
• Promote a collaborative, integrated project culture across Owner, EPC/EPCM, engineering, construction, suppliers, and other stakeholders.
• Develop an organization capable of supporting project development, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness phases.

 

Job Requirements:

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Engineering, Business Administration, Construction Management, or a related discipline.

Required Experience

• Minimum 15 years of progressive procurement and supply chain experience.
• Significant experience supporting major capital projects in mining, minerals processing, metals, energy, infrastructure, or other heavy industrial sectors.
• Demonstrated leadership experience on large-scale capital projects, preferably with project values exceeding US$1 billion.
• Experience working in Owner/client-side procurement organizations and/or managing procurement through EPC/EPCM delivery models.
• Proven expertise working with major international equipment and material suppliers.
• Strong commercial negotiation and purchase order management capabilities.
• Experience managing critical and long-lead equipment procurement.
• Solid understanding of engineering, construction, commissioning, project controls interfaces.
• Experience managing multicultural and geographically dispersed teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting copper or other base-metal mining projects.
• Spanish language proficiency.
• Experience working in Chile and/or Latin America.
• Knowledge of procurement, importation, logistics, and regulatory requirements within Chile.
• Engineering or technical background.
• Experience with EPC, EPCM, and PMC project delivery models.
• Experience supporting mine processing facilities and associated infrastructure projects.

 

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit, walk and stand; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands repetitively to finger, handle, feel or operate standard office equipment. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.

 

About Teal Energi:

TealEnergi is a technical manpower provider with extensive experience supporting the successful execution and operation of major capital project investments. Forged through a desire to provide best-in-class service to clients, candidates, and contractors alike, TealEnergi works through its offices nationwide to provide regional support to a wide range of sectors including both traditional energy and energy transition initiatives (e.g., LNG, hydrogen, wind, solar), as well as manufacturing, mining, and infrastructure.

TealEnergi is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, disability, ethnicity, gender or gender identity, language, national origin, physical or mental ability, political affiliation, religion, sexual orientation, or protected veteran status.