HV Electrical Procurement Manager

Do you have experience procuring high-voltage electrical equipment and managing supplier relationships from bid through delivery? Do you enjoy translating complex technical requirements into commercially sound procurement strategies? Are you looking for an opportunity to help deliver complex power infrastructure solutions alongside some of the best and brightest minds in the industry?

If the answer is “Yes!” then we have an opportunity that will excite you.

ARCO/Murray is currently 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.

• Lead category strategy and end-to-end procurement for HV electrical equipment, including breakers, transformers, switch gear, 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.

• 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, switch gear, 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.

We are dedicated to the well-being of our associates and are proud to be consistently recognized as a Best Place to Work. Our compensation and benefits package not only supports our associates and their families but benefits local communities and communities around the world.

• 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
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage
• Paid parental leave
• Typical base compensation for the Project Manager role is between $84,000.00 and $. Candidates with extensive experience may exceed this range. In addition to base salary, the role is eligible to receive discretionary bonus compensation based on individual and company performance.

At ARCO, our first core value is to treat people fairly and do the right thing. We are committed to building and sustaining a culture that supports diversity and inclusion. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. From recruiting, training, and hiring practices to selecting our…