Sobre este puesto de Procurement Operations Manager, Procurement/Expediting (On-site) - Corsicana, TX, or Sweetwater, TX en Decima International
Decima International is a professional services company, providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East. Our mission is to become the premier professional services provider across all industry sectors we are engaged in. To accomplish this, Decima International’s founders established a simple yet powerful formula:
Approach each client engagement as a partnership, create an environment that attracts the most talented professionals and allows them to flourish, and regulate growth to maintain excellence in our service standards.
We are seeking a Procurement Operations Manager (Procurement/Expediting) to support hyperscale data center construction projects in a PMC /owner’s representative capacity.
This role focuses on active expediting, vendor engagement, recovery planning, and delivery risk management for critical equipment and procurement packages.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Maintain factory production schedules for all critical long-lead items and monitor vendor progress against those schedules on a regular cadence - not only when a delivery is flagged as at risk.
- Actively expedite at-risk equipment and procurement packages.
- Make direct vendor calls to confirm progress and commitments.
- Conduct factory visits to verify production and delivery status.
- Identify procurement risks before they impact project milestones.
- Develop recovery plans for delayed or at-risk deliveries.
- Escalate delivery risks directly to vendor leadership.
- Present recovery positions and recommendations to the owner.
- Track purchase orders, supplier commitments, and delivery milestones.
- Coordinate with vendors, project teams, GC, and owner stakeholders.
- Maintain expediting logs, recovery trackers, and risk registers.
- Support procurement reporting, lookaheads, and leadership updates.
- Drive closure of open supplier actions and delivery commitments.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or related fields.
- 7+ years of procurement, expediting, or supplier management experience.
- Experience actively expediting equipment or material deliveries.
- Experience making direct vendor calls to confirm schedule commitments.
- Experience conducting factory visits or supplier progress reviews.
- Experience developing recovery plans for at-risk deliveries.
- Experience escalating delivery risks to vendor leadership.
- Ability to present delivery recovery positions to owner stakeholders.
- Experience managing multiple active purchase orders across packages.
- Experience working on large capital construction or infrastructure programs.
- Strong documentation, follow-up, communication, and issue-resolution skills.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience managing 40+ active purchase orders simultaneously.
- Experience supporting hyperscale data center or mission-critical projects.
- Experience in a PMC, owner’s representative, developer, or client-side environment.
- Experience with critical electrical, mechanical, or technology equipment packages.
- Familiarity with factory production schedules and supplier reporting.
- Experience with Procore, Oracle Unifier, SAP, Oracle, Coupa, Smartsheet, or Power BI.
POSITION DETAILS
- Location (On-site):
- Corsicana, Texas
- Sweetwater, Texas
- Position: Procurement Operations Manager, Procurement/Expediting
- 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)
PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
- Microsoft Project
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft 365
Decima International is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to the safety and well-being of all. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, medical condition, marital or domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression and transgender status, mental disability or physical disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, citizenship, low-income status or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law.
