Strategic Subcontract Procurement Lead

Aecon Group Inc.; Hamilton; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Reporting to the Senior Procurement Manager, you will work on site four to five days per week, coordinating with Safety, Quality, and Legal teams to deliver compliant, cost-effective outcomes for critical infrastructure in Ontario.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in procurement or related function.
• Strong knowledge of procurement principles, practices, and ethics.
• Clear and effective verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and manage major subcontract procurement planning for packages and RFQs.
• Assist Operations in preparing vendor lists including Indigenous vendors.
• Maintain subcontract filing system per project standard and guide Operations on filing.
• Prepare commercial and collect technical documents for RFQ packages; ensure NDAs are executed.
• Coordinate with Safety, Quality, Environmental, and IDD to gather information for RFQ evaluation.
• Issue and manage RFQ communications and addenda; use approved project software.
• Set up bid clarification meetings with shortlisted proponents.
• Prepare initial commercial evaluation documents for Operations review.
• Conduct due diligence (Dun & Bradstreet) on shortlisted bidders as required.
• Understand contract templates and liaise with Legal on negotiations.
• Form subcontract documents and manage signatures; file in project repository.
• Set up kick-off meetings with proponent and internal disciplines before mobilization.
• Ensure subcontracts are entered in SAP per Procurement Plans and SOPs.
• Hand off completed packages to Contract Administrator with documented handoff.

Skills

Procurement

Negotiation

Communication

Teamwork

Time management

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Outlook

Microsoft Word

Job description

Reporting to the Senior Procurement Manager, you will work on site four to five days per week, coordinating with Safety, Quality, and Legal teams to deliver compliant, cost-effective outcomes for critical infrastructure in Ontario.