Procurement Group Lead

Position: Procurement Group Lead - United States
Location(s):
Katy, Texas Company:
Optimized Process Designs Career Field:
Procurement & Sourcing Job Number: 196511

Apply:  Job Optimized Process Designs (OPD), a Koch Engineered Solutions company, is seeking a Procurement Group Lead to lead procurement execution, capability, people, planning, visibility, and performance across a portfolio of EPC projects. Reporting to the Procurement Manager, this leader develops multiple Project Procurement Leads while balancing staffing, workload, priorities, resources, and risk across the portfolio.

This is a hands-on, execution-driven leadership role responsible for connecting project needs, engineering maturity, suppliers, fabrication, material and equipment readiness, construction priorities, systems, forecasting, and performance to provide portfolio-level visibility and drive better project outcomes.

This role sits at our headquarters in Katy, TX Monday – Friday. This role is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship. Our Team Optimized Process Designs is an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) firm executing complex energy and infrastructure projects across North America, with experience in natural gas, natural gas liquids, petrochemical, power, and industrial markets. OPD is part of the larger Koch organization and is known for integrated execution, disciplined commercial and schedule management, direct-hire construction, and a culture of ownership and long-term value creation.

Procurement partners across Business Development, Estimating, Engineering, Project Management, Project Controls, Construction, and suppliers to improve decision quality, material and equipment readiness, commercial outcomes, and schedule certainty.

What You Will Do Portfolio Procurement Leadership & Ownership Own procurement outcomes across multiple assigned projects. Maintain an integrated portfolio view of demand, priorities, workload, readiness, supplier and fabrication constraints, commercial exposure, and closeout. Establish priorities and allocate resources based on customer commitments, project need, risk, schedule, and total portfolio value. Serve as the senior Procurement partner for assigned accounts, connecting project needs with Procurement Operations, Strategic Sourcing, Fabrication, Engineering, Construction, and Project Management.

Provide experienced guidance and escalation support while preserving ownership with Project Procurement Leads and functional leads.

Portfolio Planning, Forecasting & Risk Forecast procurement demand, workload, major commitments, long-lead requirements, supplier and fabrication capacity, and critical decisions across the portfolio. Connect project schedules, engineering maturity, procurement commitments, fabrication requirements, and construction need dates to identify gaps before they affect execution. Maintain visibility of portfolio risks, assumptions, opportunities, changes, and dependencies affecting cost, schedule, supplier performance, fabrication, material readiness, and customer commitments.

Challenge priorities and coordinate cross-project recovery strategies when resources, suppliers, engineering deliverables, fabrication capacity, or material availability become constrained. Use economic thinking to evaluate alternatives based on total value, including cost, schedule, risk, quality, capacity, and customer impact. Supplier, Fabrication & Material Execution Provide leadership and oversight across RFQs, bid evaluations, negotiations, purchase orders, supplier documentation, inspection, expediting, logistics, delivery, and commercial closeout.

Maintain cross-project visibility of engineered and vendor-manufactured equipment, valves, direct BOM/MTO material, OPD-designed fabricated material, supplier commitments,…