Project Procurement Manager

Project Procurement Manager

Location: Project-Based (Wisconsin, Missouri, Wyoming, Texas, and future project locations)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Work Environment: Primarily Site-Based (Long-Term Project Assignments)

Lead Procurement and Supply Chain Strategy for World-Class Mission-Critical Infrastructure

Delivering hyperscale data centers requires far more than purchasing materials and equipment. Successful project execution depends on proactive supply-chain planning, long-lead equipment management, supplier engagement, manufacturing visibility, logistics coordination, and cross-functional alignment between procurement and construction operations.

As a Project Procurement Manager with Michels Infrastructure Solutions, you will lead the procurement and supply-chain strategy supporting major hyperscale data center developments. Your efforts will help ensure materials, equipment, and services are available when needed to support aggressive construction schedules, critical project milestones, and successful field execution.

Working across project teams and the Michels Family of Companies, you will coordinate purchasing activities, manage strategic supplier relationships, mitigate supply-chain risks, and maintain alignment between procurement activities and the overall construction plan.

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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.

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Position Overview

As a Project Procurement Manager, you will lead all procurement and supply-chain activities supporting major hyperscale data center construction projects. You will develop and execute procurement strategies, lead assigned procurement professionals, manage supplier relationships, and ensure purchasing activities remain aligned with project schedules, budgets, quality standards, commercial requirements, and procurement governance.

During the early phases of project delivery, you will play a critical role in procurement planning associated with site development, underground utilities, telecommunications infrastructure, structural concrete, power infrastructure, and long-lead electrical and mechanical systems required to support mission-critical operations.

A key aspect of this role is coordinating procurement activities across the Michels Family of Companies supporting the project. You will maintain visibility into purchasing activities, supplier commitments, manufacturing milestones, inspections, deliveries, long-lead equipment, and supply-chain risks across multiple scopes and business units.

You will help establish procurement strategies that align purchasing activities with evolving project schedules, construction phasing plans, and long-term campus development objectives.

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 maintaining supply continuity, protecting project schedules, and ensuring successful project execution.

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Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute project procurement strategies aligned with construction schedules, budgets, project objectives, and customer requirements.
• Lead and coordinate procurement activities across affiliated Michels companies supporting multidisciplinary construction scopes.
• Develop procurement strategies supporting large-scale site-development and infrastructure construction activities.
• Identify long-lead equipment and material requirements early in the project lifecycle and develop mitigation plans for supply-chain risks.
• Coordinate procurement activities supporting civil construction, utility infrastructure, telecommunications systems, structural concrete operations, power infrastructure, commissioning systems, and mission-critical facilities.
• Manage and develop procurement professionals assigned to the project, including Buyers, Procurement Specialists, Expeditors, and related personnel.
• Establish procurement priorities, responsibilities, resource requirements, performance expectations, and reporting standards.
• Identify, evaluate, and mitigate procurement, supply-chain, commercial, quality, supplier, manufacturing, and schedule risks before they impact project execution.
• Ensure procurement activities comply with project specifications, budgets, delivery requirements, quality standards, and procurement governance requirements.
• Maintain strong supplier relationships and lead commercial interactions supporting project procurement needs.
• Provide procurement visibility to project leadership through milestone tracking, forecasting, reporting, and risk assessments.
• Ensure procurement plans remain aligned with changing construction priorities, project phasing strategies, and schedule requirements.
• Promote a strong health, safety, environment, and quality culture throughout procurement, supplier, and material-management activities.

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What You'll Do

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive procurement schedule integrated with the project master schedule.
• Manage procurement activities supporting mass grading, wet utilities, dry utilities, telecommunications infrastructure, structural concrete, power infrastructure, commissioning systems, and mission-critical construction activities.
• Track critical procurement milestones including requisitions, bid events, evaluations, approvals, purchase orders, manufacturing progress, inspections, shipping milestones, and final delivery.
• Maintain visibility into procurement plans, supplier commitments, purchase orders, material availability, manufacturing progress, and delivery schedules.
• Coordinate purchasing activities across affiliated Michels companies to ensure individual scope requirements remain aligned with the overall project execution plan.
• Lead procurement readiness reviews supporting major construction milestones and execution phases.
• Coordinate closely with Project Management, Engineering, Construction Operations, Project Controls, Scheduling, QA/QC, Logistics, HSE, Finance, Legal, Risk, and other project stakeholders.
• Monitor supplier performance, manufacturing progress, delivery commitments, market conditions, and emerging supply-chain risks.
• Lead supplier-expediting activities and corrective action efforts when procurement delays threaten project milestones.
• Develop recovery plans when supplier performance, manufacturing schedules, logistics constraints, or material availability threaten project objectives.
• Coordinate with Logistics Managers, Construction Managers, Project Controls personnel, and supplier partners to ensure material readiness aligns with field execution requirements.
• 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 commercial issues in partnership with project stakeholders.
• Monitor procurement commitments, forecasts, budgets, and cost performance in coordination with Project Controls and Scheduling.
• Maintain accurate, complete, and audit-ready procurement documentation, approvals, contracts, commercial records, and project files.
• Develop and report procurement KPIs, forecasts, supply-chain risks, supplier scorecards, performance metrics, and corrective actions to project and business leadership.
• Participate in supplier qualification activities, supplier meetings, manufacturing visits, site visits, inspections, and audits as required.
• Provide procurement input to risk assessments, lessons learned, project execution planning, and continuous-improvement initiatives.

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Leadership & Team Development

• Lead, coach, and develop 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, accountability, and timely decision-making.
• Partner with procurement teams across affiliated Michels companies to coordinate resources and align purchasing activities.
• Build strong relationships with strategic suppliers supporting mission-critical infrastructure, power, utility, telecommunications, and hyperscale-construction markets.
• Promote collaboration between procurement, logistics, construction, project controls, engineering, and operations teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve procurement processes, tools, reporting systems, and project delivery practices.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement while developing current and future procurement professionals.

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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 provide opportunities to lead procurement and supply-chain strategies supporting some of North America's largest hyperscale data center developments.
• We provide exposure to every phase of project delivery, from greenfield site development through commissioning and turnover.
• 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.

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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.

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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 enjoy building strong supplier relationships and solving complex procurement challenges.
• You thrive when coordinating multiple teams around a common project objective.
• You enjoy developing strategies that protect schedules and reduce supply-chain risk.
• You excel at balancing cost, schedule, quality, and commercial objectives.
• You like to know your efforts are noticed and appreciated.
• You want to make your own decisions, but know support is always available.
• You want to work to make a difference.

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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 related functions.
• Demonstrated experience leading procurement, supply-chain, materials-management, or commercial activities supporting large-scale EPC, heavy civil, utility, power, industrial, mission-critical, telecommunications, or hyperscale data center projects.
• Experience leading procurement activities against complex construction schedules, budgets, delivery milestones, and project objectives.
• Experience procuring materials and equipment supporting earthwork, underground utilities, structural concrete, power infrastructure, telecommunications systems, industrial facilities, or mission-critical projects preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and mitigate procurement, supply-chain, commercial, supplier, manufacturing, and schedule risks.
• Strong knowledge of purchasing processes, procurement governance, commercial terms, supplier relationship management, and modern supply-chain practices.
• Experience developing and managing project procurement schedules, including long-lead equipment and material-planning programs.
• Experience supporting long-lead equipment procurement, manufacturing oversight, supplier expediting, logistics coordination, and schedule-driven procurement programs.
• Experience with supplier expediting, manufacturing milestone tracking, inspection coordination, logistics planning, and delivery management.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop procurement teams, including Buyers, Procurement Specialists, Expeditors, and related personnel.
• Ability to coordinate across multiple business units and influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.
• Experience working within integrated project teams involving Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Project Controls, Logistics, Quality, Safety, Finance, Legal, and Operations functions.
• Ability to interpret procurement data, evaluate commercial information, analyze supplier performance, and communicate procurement status and risks to executive 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 equivalent supply-chain or contracts certification preferred but not required.
• Experience coordinating procurement across affiliated companies or multiple business units within a complex project-delivery organization preferred.
• Ability to support long-term, site-based assignments at hyperscale data center and mission-critical construction projects throughout North America. This position is primarily project-based and requires regular interaction with field operations, project leadership, suppliers, and procurement teams. Initial project opportunities are expected to be located in Wisconsin, Missouri, Wyoming, and Texas, with future assignments determined by business needs and project awards.