About the Role
Work on exciting projects in a dynamic environment where your success is measured by the impact you make. Cumming Group is a fast-growing project and cost management consultancy with a global presence and diverse project portfolio.
Responsibilities
- Manage owner-side procurement for equipment, construction, subcontract, and professional-service packages.
- Develop and maintain the procurement plan, contracting strategy, package register, and procurement schedule.
- Review EPC and contractor procurement plans against schedule, technical, GMP, and contract requirements.
- Manage bidder prequalification, RFPs, bid clarification, technical evaluation, commercial evaluation, and award recommendations.
- Manage vendor and subcontractor qualification.
- Oversee procurement of process equipment, utility systems, automation, electrical equipment, HVAC, laboratory equipment, and material-handling systems.
- Coordinate procurement requirements with Engineering, Technical, CQV, Quality, Construction, Automation, and Project Controls.
- Track purchase orders, subcontracts, vendor drawings, fabrication, testing, release, shipment, delivery, and installation.
- Maintain the long-lead equipment register.
- Manage expediting, vendor surveillance, inspection, FATs, logistics, preservation, and delivery coordination.
- Confirm vendor documentation supports commissioning, qualification, validation, maintenance, and regulatory requirements.
- Review commercial terms, payment milestones, change orders, claims, warranties, spares, and closeout requirements.
- Monitor supplier performance and recovery actions.
- Manage commitments, procurement forecasts, schedule risks, and procurement reporting.
Requirements
- Procurement and contracting for pharmaceutical capital projects.
- Process equipment, utility systems, automation, construction packages, and specialty services.
- Vendor qualification, subcontractor prequalification, bid evaluation, negotiation, and contract award.
- Long-lead equipment and procurement scheduling.
- GMP documentation, turnover packages, FAT requirements, and CQV deliverables.
- Fabrication, inspection, logistics, preservation, installation, and warranty requirements.
- EPC, EPCM, construction-management, and multi-prime delivery models.
- Purchase orders, subcontracts, change orders, claims, and supplier-performance management.
- ERP and procurement systems.
Skills
- Procurement
- Contracting
- Pharmaceutical Capital Projects
- Process Equipment
- Utility Systems
- Automation
- Construction Packages
- Specialty Services
- Vendor Qualification
- Subcontractor Prequalification
- Bid Evaluation
- Negotiation
- Contract Award
- Long-Lead Equipment
- Procurement Scheduling
- GMP Documentation
- Turnover Packages
- FAT Requirements
- CQV Deliverables
- Fabrication
- Inspection
- Logistics
- Preservation
- Installation
- Warranty Requirements
- EPC
- EPCM
- Construction Management
- Multi-Prime Delivery Models
- Purchase Orders
- Subcontracts
- Change Orders
- Claims
- Supplier Performance Management
- ERP Systems
- Procurement Systems
- SAP
- Ariba
- Oracle
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years of capital-project procurement or contracts experience
- 5+ years supporting pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or chemical manufacturing projects
- Experience procuring long-lead process and utility equipment for greenfield cGMP facilities
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or a related discipline
- CPSM, CPM, or PMP preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $115,700.00-$161,966.69 per year
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- 401(k)
- 401(k) Matching
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Short and long-term disability
- Employee Assistance Program
About the Company
- Cumming Group is one of the fastest-growing project and cost management consultancies in the United States, with over 60 offices globally and an extremely diverse project portfolio.
- We are committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunity in our personnel policies and practices.
Equal Opportunity
- Cumming Group is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunity in its personnel policies and practices. It is Cumming Group’s policy to recruit, hire, train and promote Team Members and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, marital status, registered domestic partner status, genetic information, sexual preference, sexual orientation, gender (including gender expression and gender identity), pregnancy (including childbirth or related medical conditions, including breastfeeding), military service, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical disability, mental disability, veteran status or any other protected classification under federal, state, or local law. All such decisions are based on (1) individual merit, qualifications, and competence as they relate to the particular position, and (2) promotion of the principle of equal employment opportunity.
- All other terms and conditions of employment, such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoff, return from layoff, training, education, and social and recreational programs, are administered without regard to the characteristics described above. To this end, Cumming Group complies with all provisions of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended, all of the rules, regulations and relevant orders of the Secretary of Labor, and all similar state and local laws.
