Senior Construction Procurement Manager (On-site) - South Padre Island, TX, or Amarillo, TX

About the Role

Decima International is a professional services company providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East. We are seeking a Senior Procurement Manager to support hyperscale data center construction projects in an owner's representative capacity. This role will support the owner through procurement planning, sourcing oversight, Owner-direct procurement support, long-lead item tracking, procurement reporting, and procurement risk management. This is not a back-office purchasing role or a replacement for the GC/CM's procurement responsibilities. It is a project-facing role focused on procurement visibility, commercial alignment, schedule protection, and early identification of supply chain and vendor risks.

Responsibilities

• Act as the owner's representative for procurement activities on large-scale construction projects.
• Support procurement planning aligned with project scope, budget, schedule, contracting strategy, and required-on-site dates.
• Provide Owner-side review and oversight of GC/CM procurement activities, including procurement status, GC/CM-prepared bid leveling summaries, award recommendations, and key procurement risks.
• Support Owner-direct procurement activities, including OFCI/OFOI equipment, professional services, consultants, commissioning, testing, and other Owner-managed packages.
• Review procurement packages, scopes, drawings, specifications, proposals, exclusions, assumptions, lead times, and commercial terms to support Owner decision-making.
• Evaluate contractor and vendor proposals for alignment with scope, budget, schedule, delivery requirements, and commercial expectations.
• Track long-lead equipment and critical procurement items to support construction sequencing, commissioning, turnover, and schedule commitments.
• Maintain procurement logs for owner-direct packages, GC/CM procurement status, long-lead items, required-on-site dates, delivery status, key milestones, and purchase order or contract values where applicable.
• Analyze vendor availability, lead times, pricing risks, and supply chain constraints to identify potential impacts on cost, schedule, and delivery.
• Identify procurement risks early and escalate issues that may impact project cost, schedule, scope, quality, or delivery.
• Coordinate with project managers, construction managers, cost managers, schedulers, contracts, legal, finance, GC/CM teams, vendors, and client stakeholders on procurement priorities, risks, approvals, and decisions.
• Partner with the Contracts Manager to ensure procurement recommendations, commercial clarifications, contract handoffs, and supporting documentation are complete and aligned with the Owner's interests.
• Monitor vendor, supplier, and GC/CM procurement performance against key commitments, including delivery dates, documentation, quality expectations, and commercial requirements.
• Prepare procurement status reports, risk summaries, lookaheads, decision logs, and recommendations for Owner leadership.
• Support resolution of procurement-related issues and procurement closeout, including open commitments, final documentation, lessons learned, and performance feedback.

Qualifications

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, Project Management, or related fields.
• 10+ years of experience in construction procurement, sourcing, supply chain, project procurement, preconstruction, construction management, or related project delivery roles.
• Experience supporting large construction or capital projects with complex scopes, multiple stakeholders, and strong cost, schedule, procurement, and contract controls.
• Strong understanding of construction procurement, RFP processes, bid leveling, vendor engagement, purchase orders, long-lead equipment, OFCI/OFOI coordination, and delivery tracking.
• Ability to review scopes of work, drawings, specifications, proposal documents, pricing sheets, exclusions, assumptions, alternates, lead times, and commercial terms.
• Experience coordinating procurement activities with owners, project teams, GC/CM teams, contractors, consultants, vendors, suppliers, legal, finance, and client stakeholders.
• Ability to identify procurement risks and explain the impact on project cost, schedule, delivery, and Owner decision-making.
• Strong communication, negotiation, organization, documentation, reporting, and issue-resolution skills.
• Experience with procurement, project management, or reporting systems such as Procore, Unifier, e-Builder, Kahua, Oracle, SAP, Coupa, Smartsheet, Power BI, or similar platforms preferred.

Preferred qualifications:

• Owner-side, owner's representative, developer, program management, construction management, or large capital project experience.
• Experience in data center, mission-critical, industrial, semiconductor, power, infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, or similar technical construction environments.
• Experience supporting or overseeing procurement for electrical, mechanical, design, engineering, commissioning, testing, equipment, and professional service packages.
• Experience with owner-direct procurement, OFCI/OFOI equipment, MEP equipment, electrical gear, generators, switchgear, UPS systems, cooling equipment, or similar critical systems.
• Experience supporting procurement activities under common contract vehicles such as GMP, lump sum, design-build, CM-at-Risk, cost-plus, MSAs, or purchase order-based agreements.
• Familiarity with vendor qualification, logistics coordination, expediting, supplier performance reviews, and delivery risk management.

Position Details

• Location (On-site): South Padre Island, Texas / Amarillo, Texas
• Position Classification: Salary-based full-time hours
• Current work permit required. This position does not offer sponsorship for employment (e.g., H-1B visa sponsorship or transfer not offered)

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