[Hiring] Project Procurement Logistics Manager @GE Vernova

Role Description

The PPLM serves as the primary interface for the Project Procurement Team Leader, coordinating all Sourcing, Procurement, and Logistics activities across a portfolio of projects. They are fully responsible for ensuring procurement commitments are met—including on-time delivery, quality, and cost—in alignment with sourcing team negotiations.

• Develop and maintain the project procurement execution plan, ensuring procurement milestones, supplier lead times, and logistics activities are aligned with the project master schedule and project delivery objectives.
• Develop and maintain a consolidated procurement roadmap across the BTM portfolio to ensure resource alignment and sequencing of major procurement activities.
• Own quality, costs (as negotiated by sourcing) and on-time delivery of the material and services for the Project.
• Co-own the Engineering Procurement Plan for the scope, where applicable.
• Work with cross-functional teams like Engineering and Sourcing to ensure the on-time delivery of documents (drawings, quotations, etc.) required to be obtained from suppliers.
• Own the budget related to material and monitor the budget.
• Establish the procurement schedule and periodic progress monitoring.
• Ensure procurement execution activities are performed in accordance with the project procurement execution plan.
• Identify and manage supply chain risks impacting critical project equipment, implementing mitigation strategies to protect project schedule and delivery objectives.
• Follow up timely closure of NCPs related to suppliers.
• Support Sourcing in obtaining technical specifications from engineering on-time.
• Participate in and/or initiate periodic project meetings with the participation of quality, lead engineering, planning, logistics, project engineering manager, etc., and generate notes/actions from these meetings and follow up on the actions.
• Regularly review the fulfilment of suppliers against all contractual requirements in regard to Customs and duties with the support of the required functions.
• Oversee claim management with the suppliers in coordination with Commodity leader/Buyer of the project.
• Report monthly progress, supplier claims, and project cost summary.
• Regularly update suppliers’ cash out & project milestone recognition related to procurement.
• Represent procurement in Project meetings internally and externally, if applicable.
• Support compliance with the Quality and EHS rules as applicable to the sourcing function.
• Support the PPTL in fulfilling the overall project targets and work in alignment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college.
• Minimum of 8-10 years of experience in high voltage electrical construction project environment.
• Ability and willingness to travel domestically 40% of the time. Must comply with all relevant company travel and tax policies.
• Ability to work a flexible work schedule that includes overtime as required.
• Must be able to travel in the USA for business.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Supply Management preferred.
• Experience as Project Manager, Tender Project Manager, Senior Purchasing Manager, Senior Sourcing Manager, or Sales Project Manager.
• Good understanding of legal/contractual aspects of an EPC contract.
• Risk management knowledge. Ability to work efficiently in cross-functional teams.
• Good communicator and teamwork capability.
• Negotiation skills either with supplier base or with customers.
• General knowledge of purchasing standards, policies, procedures, and Sourcing management.
• Ability to coach & develop team members.
• Accountability, resilience, autonomy, and leadership.
• Decision making, problem solving, ability to independently resolve issues with difficult suppliers.
• Basics in scheduling/planning of large and complex projects.
• Technical knowledge of products purchased and power plant familiarity.

Benefits

• Relocation Assistance Provided: No
• #LI-Remote - This is a remote position.