Manager, Procurement

Aecon Group

What is the Opportunity?

The Procurement Manager is responsible for leading procurement and supply chain activities across all phases of US New Nuclear Development (US NND) project delivery, from early development and contracting strategy through to execution and closeout.

This role ensures that procurement is fully integrated into project planning and delivery, enabling early identification of risks, identifying qualified suppliers, supply chain constraints, and qualified sources for both quality and technical capabilities, while ensuring timely, compliant, and cost-effective delivery of materials, equipment, fabricated components, engineered equipment, and subcontracted services.

As a core member of the Project Management Team (PMT), the Procurement Manager drives supplier performance, supports schedule certainty, and ensures alignment with nuclear regulatory, quality, export control, commercial, and contractual requirements for US NND opportunities.

What You'll Do Here:

Development Phase – Strategy & Planning

• Lead development of the project procurement strategy, aligned with the project execution model including modularization, fabrication, field installation, engineered equipment, long-lead materials, and subcontracted services.
• Identify long-lead materials, critical equipment, engineered equipment, fabrication scopes, and key subcontract scopes early in the project lifecycle.
• Define sourcing strategies including competitive bids, strategic partners, sole source where justified, commercial packaging, and supplier risk mitigation approaches.
• Establish supplier qualification and prequalification plans, ensuring alignment to nuclear QA requirements, NQA-1 expectations, ASME requirements where applicable, regulatory commitments, and client requirements.
• Work with Engineering, Quality, Construction, Commercial, and Project Controls to align specifications, scopes, procurement packages, and supplier deliverables with execution schedules and project milestones.
• Support development of contracts, commercial terms, procurement risk allocation, and supplier governance strategies.

Validation Phase – Supplier Qualification & Readiness

• Lead supplier qualification, audits, and pre-award evaluations, ensuring vendors meet nuclear quality, technical, regulatory, commercial, and export control requirements.
• Prepare a comprehensive Procurement Plan that defines procurement execution approach, sourcing strategy, approval workflows, procurement schedule, supplier oversight, expediting, logistics, and reporting requirements.
• Coordinate cross-functional reviews of procurement packages with Engineering, Quality, Construction, Project Controls, Commercial, Legal, and client or partner stakeholders prior to issue.
• Validate readiness of suppliers, fabrication plans, inspection and test plans, quality documentation, and logistics strategies prior to award and execution.
• Ensure procurement documentation, specifications, flow-down clauses, quality requirements, commercial terms, and contracts are complete, compliant, and execution-ready.
• Support readiness reviews to confirm procurement is aligned with US NND project execution planning, construction readiness, fabrication readiness, and schedule requirements.

Execution Phase – Procurement Delivery

• Manage end-to-end procurement activities including bidding, evaluation, negotiation, award, purchase order management, subcontract administration, expediting, and closeout.
• Administer contracts and manage supplier/subcontractor performance against safety, quality, schedule, cost, commercial, regulatory, and documentation objectives.
• Track and report on procurement status, expediting, supplier deliverables, delivery risks, commercial issues, nonconformances, and mitigation actions.
• Lead expediting, logistics coordination, material delivery, engineered equipment delivery, and supplier documentation readiness to support construction, modularization, and fabrication timelines.
• Maintain strong integration with Construction, Engineering, Quality, Project Controls, Commissioning, and Commercial teams to ensure material availability aligns with field execution, turnover, and project milestones.

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