About this role
Field Project Procurement Manager
This is in the field on an active industrial construction site.
Play an integral role in delivering sustainable infrastructure and industrial construction projects that support the world's evolving energy, chemicals, and resources needs. As a Field Project Procurement Manager, you will provide leadership and oversight for project procurement activities at the construction site, ensuring critical materials, equipment, supplies, and services are delivered safely, efficiently, and in alignment with project schedules, budgets, and business objectives.
Working closely with engineering, construction, suppliers, logistics providers, and project leadership, you will help ensure projects receive the resources required to maintain productivity, manage risk, and achieve successful project outcomes. Your leadership will directly impact project execution, supply chain performance, cost management, schedule achievement, and customer satisfaction.
Purpose of the role
At Worley, we are committed to delivering sustainable change by bridging today’s energy and resource demands with the transition to a more sustainable future. The Field Project Procurement Manager plays a critical role in this journey by leading procurement activities that support the successful delivery of complex industrial and capital projects.
This role is responsible for leading and managing procurement teams, coordinating material procurement activities, expediting engineering deliverables and supplier schedules, monitoring manufacturing progress, and ensuring project procurement activities align with contractual requirements, budget expectations, and construction schedules. Through strong stakeholder engagement and supply chain leadership, you will help drive project success while supporting operational excellence and sustainable project delivery.
You will be responsible for
- Leading and managing project procurement teams to ensure the timely delivery of materials, equipment, supplies, and services required for project execution.
- Developing and implementing project procurement strategies that support construction schedules, project budgets, customer objectives, and project milestones.
- Coordinating procurement activities with engineering, construction, logistics, project controls, suppliers, and project management teams.
- Expediting engineering drawings, technical documentation, procurement deliverables, manufacturing schedules, supplier commitments, and critical material deliveries.
- Monitoring supplier performance and proactively addressing schedule, quality, commercial, or delivery risks that may impact project success.
- Reviewing and interpreting procurement reports, material status updates, supplier schedules, manufacturing progress reports, and project forecasts.
- Supporting sourcing activities, supplier evaluations, commercial assessments, and procurement recommendations.
- Managing procurement schedules, status reporting, material tracking systems, and supplier performance metrics.
- Ensuring procurement activities comply with company procedures, contractual obligations, project requirements, and customer expectations.
- Collaborating with construction and materials management teams to ensure effective receipt, storage, tracking, and deployment of materials at the project site.
- Supporting project planning and forecasting activities by identifying procurement risks, opportunities, and mitigation strategies.
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with suppliers, subcontractors, customers, and project stakeholders.
- Providing technical guidance and mentoring to procurement personnel while supporting workforce development initiatives.
- Supporting audits, compliance reviews, commercial evaluations, claims support, and project reporting activities.
- Driving continuous improvement initiatives focused on procurement efficiency, supply chain performance, cost optimization, and operational excellence.
About us
Worley is a global company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia. We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value across the life of their assets. We specialize in consulting, engineering, procurement and construction across the project lifecycle, with services extending through to operations and decommissioning. Leveraging extensive experience and AI-enabled delivery, we support customers in navigating complexity as they meet today's needs and transition to more sustainable solutions.
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What you’ll bring to the role
You are a highly experienced procurement professional with strong commercial acumen and a proven ability to support complex industrial construction projects. You understand how effective procurement leadership contributes directly to project success and possess the expertise to manage competing priorities while ensuring critical materials and equipment are delivered on time and within budget.
Key qualifications include:
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, Construction Management, Procurement, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Typically 10+ years of relevant procurement, supply chain, sourcing, materials management, project controls, or project execution experience.
- Demonstrated experience supporting industrial construction, EPC, energy, chemicals, mining, manufacturing, infrastructure, power, LNG, or major capital projects.
- Proven ability to lead procurement teams and manage procurement activities across multiple project phases.
- Strong knowledge of procurement processes, supplier management, contract administration, expediting, logistics, materials management, and supplier performance monitoring.
- Experience working directly with suppliers, manufacturers, construction teams, engineering organizations, and project management personnel.
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to develop practical solutions to complex procurement challenges.
- Strong understanding of project execution principles, construction schedules, material management processes, and commercial risk management.
- Demonstrated ability to proactively set priorities and manage issues with multi-project and organizational impact.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
- Experience preparing and presenting procurement reports, forecasts, supplier evaluations, and executive-level project updates.
- Advanced understanding of procurement systems, reporting tools, ERP platforms, supplier management systems, and project execution processes.
- Ability to provide technical guidance, review work for accuracy, and support the development of procurement personnel.
- Commitment to safety, operational excellence, continuous improvement, collaboration, and sustainable project delivery.
Benefits
Feel the energy at Worley with access to a range of benefits including: paid-time off, holiday pay (usually 8 per year in the US), and eligibility to participate in the medical, life, dental, and vision insurance plans, as well as 401K plan.
Apply today
If you are ready to lead procurement activities that support the successful delivery of complex industrial projects and thrive in a dynamic field environment, we encourage you to apply. Join a global organization where your procurement expertise, commercial insight, and leadership capabilities will help deliver sustainable outcomes for customers and communities.
Moving forward together
We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. So, our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection and innovation. We're building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace. Creating a space where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard.
And we're not just talking about it; we're doing it. We're reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology. Whatever your ambition, there's a path for you here.
And there's no barrier to your potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.
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