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. 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 Long-Lead Equipment Procurement Manager, HV Electrical, to support hyperscale data center construction projects in a PMC / owner’s representative capacity.
This role will focus on procurement and delivery oversight for critical HV electrical long-lead equipment, including large power transformers, HV switchgear, UPS systems, generators, and related electrical infrastructure.
The successful candidate will actively manage vendors, monitor factory schedules, review production progress, identify delivery risks, and support procurement decisions that protect project cost, schedule, quality, and delivery commitments.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead procurement oversight for HV electrical long-lead equipment packages.
- Track procurement status against project schedule requirements.
- Monitor factory production milestones and delivery commitments.
- Review supplier progress reports for schedule and delivery risks.
- Support transformer manufacturing kick-off meetings and follow-up actions.
- Validate supplier updates against approved production schedules.
- Identify genuine delivery risks and recommend corrective actions.
- Escalate procurement risks affecting cost, schedule, quality, or turnover.
- Review scopes, proposals, exclusions, assumptions, and lead times.
- Support bid evaluations, award recommendations, and procurement decisions.
- Coordinate with owners, project teams, vendors, suppliers, and contractors.
- Maintain procurement logs, delivery trackers, and risk registers.
- Prepare procurement updates, lookaheads, and leadership reports.
- Support Factory Acceptance Testing planning and issue resolution.
- Resolve procurement issues impacting construction, commissioning, or turnover.
- Support procurement closeout and vendor performance feedback.
- Coordinate site delivery sequencing and laydown planning for HV electrical equipment in coordination with the GC - including oversize load requirements and formal custody transfer documentation at delivery.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Supply Chain, or related fields.
- 7+ years of procurement experience on large capital construction programs.
- Experience supporting hyperscale data center or mission-critical construction projects.
- Experience in a PMC, owner’s representative, developer, or client-side delivery environment.
- Direct experience procuring large power transformers.
- Understanding of transformer manufacturing lead times of 52 to 100 weeks.
- Direct experience procuring HV switchgear, including GIS or AIS equipment.
- Direct experience procuring UPS systems.
- Direct experience procuring generators.
- Experience supporting owner-direct procurement or OFCI/OFOI electrical equipment packages.
- Experience managing long-lead electrical equipment vendors.
- Understanding of factory production milestone schedules.
- Experience supporting or participating in transformer manufacturing kick-off meetings.
- Ability to read and interpret factory progress reports.
- Ability to identify when equipment delivery is genuinely at risk.
- Experience communicating procurement risks to project stakeholders.
- Strong documentation, reporting, coordination, and issue-resolution skills.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with utilities, EPC, or large industrial construction programs.
- Experience coordinating Factory Acceptance Testing for electrical equipment.
- Familiarity with expediting, logistics, and supplier performance reviews.
- Experience with GMP, lump sum, design-build, CM-at-Risk, or MSA agreements.
- Experience with Procore, Unifier, e-Builder, Kahua, Oracle, SAP, or Coupa.
- Experience with Smartsheet, Power BI, Microsoft Project, or Microsoft 365.
POSITION DETAILS
- Location (On-site):
- Corsicana, Texas
- Sweetwater, Texas
- Position: Long-Lead Equipment Procurement Manager, HV Electrical
- 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.
