HV Electrical Procurement Manager
ARCO Companies•Downers Grove, IL
•$84,000 - $160,000•Onsite
About The Position
ARCO/Murray is seeking a highly motivated Procurement Manager, HV Electrical Equipment to join our Energy & Infrastructure team in Chicago, Illinois. This role will lead category strategy and end-to-end procurement for critical high-voltage equipment supporting complex power, industrial, and data-center projects. The Procurement Manager will partner closely with engineering, project management, estimating, construction, clients, and suppliers to develop practical, availability-based solutions that meet technical, commercial, quality, and schedule requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, engineering, construction management, or a related field.
- Five or more years of procurement, category management, or supplier-management experience, preferably with electrical equipment or power systems.
- Experience managing sourcing, negotiations, purchase orders, expediting, quality, and delivery.
- Working knowledge of HV electrical equipment, transformers, switchgear, breakers, or power distribution systems.
- Strong analytical, communication, negotiation, and project-management skills.
- Proficiency with ERP and reporting tools is a plus.
- Periodic travel is required.
Responsibilities
- Lead category strategy and end-to-end procurement for HV electrical equipment, including breakers, transformers, switchgear, surge arresters, power resistors, e-houses, and related components.
- Partner with estimating, engineering, project management, construction, clients, and suppliers to define requirements and develop cost-effective, availability-based solutions.
- Manage RFQs, bid evaluations, supplier selection, negotiations, purchase orders, contracts, expediting, testing, and project-site delivery.
- Serve as the primary supplier escalation point, resolving issues involving pricing, scope, lead times, quality, technical requirements, and delivery.
- Build and maintain supplier forecasts, pricing data, qualified supplier networks, and alternate-sourcing strategies.
- Lead supplier qualification, audits, quality resolution, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and factory or final assembly testing.
- Support complex power infrastructure and data-center projects while monitoring cost, schedule, quality, and supplier performance.
- Improve procurement tools and processes, communicate risks and recommendations to leadership, and travel periodically for supplier and project meetings.
Benefits
- Industry-leading performance-based bonus program
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- Traditional and Roth 401k
- Tuition reimbursement for associates
- Scholarship for associates’ children up to $28,000 per child
- 1-month paid sabbatical after every five years of employment, plus $5,000 for travel
- 1-week paid volunteer leave each year
- 100% charitable match
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage
- Paid parental leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
