Head of Project Procurement & Logistics

Voith GmbH Group; York (York County); Vor Ort; USD 150.000 - 210.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Voith US Inc. in York, PA, is seeking a Head of Project Procurement to lead the Project Procurement and Logistics & Transport Management functions for complex hydroelectric and energy projects.

You will align procurement strategies with project schedules, manage supplier performance, oversee make/buy decisions, and drive cost control and risk management across the full project lifecycle. The role requires strategic and operational leadership within a matrix organization, coordinating with

Aufgaben

• Lead the Project Procurement and Logistics & Transport Management organizations, establishing clear objectives, priorities, accountabilities, and performance expectations.
• Provide strategic direction and operational leadership for project procurement and logistics activities across the project portfolio.
• Establish an integrated project procurement and logistics operating model from Sales-to-Project handover through project closeout.
• Ensure procurement, supplier management, logistics, and transportation activities are fully integrated with project execution strategies and master schedules.
• Establish appropriate organizational structures, staffing levels, competencies, processes, and resources to support project execution requirements.
• Develop and maintain standardized processes, procedures, governance, tools, and best practices for project procurement and logistics.
• Ensure effective coordination between Project Procurement Managers, Logistics & Transport Managers, Strategic Sourcing, Commodity Management, Project Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, HSE, and Legal.
• Provide leadership and escalation support for critical supplier, procurement, logistics, commercial, and transportation issues.
• Ensure consistent application of procurement and logistics policies, governance, delegated authorities, and project contractual requirements.
• Establish and approve project-specific procurement strategies aligned with overall project objectives, contractual requirements, schedules, budgets, and commercial targets.
• Ensure procurement strategies address long-lead equipment, critical materials, major subcontractors, engineered components, services, and project-specific supply chain constraints.
• Review and approve Project Procurement Plans and procurement schedules for major projects.
• Establish procurement priorities based on project critical path, engineering maturity, manufacturing capacity, supplier lead times, logistics requirements, and customer commitments.
• Ensure sourcing and procurement strategies consider total landed cost, schedule, quality, technical capability, capacity, financial stability, risk, and logistics requirements.
• Provide strategic direction for make/buy decisions, subcontracting strategies, supplier allocation, localization, and alternative sourcing where appropriate.
• Ensure procurement strategies support project profitability, cash flow, working capital, and overall commercial objectives.
• Establish and oversee project-specific logistics strategies for complex, oversized, overweight, high‑value, and critical‑path equipment.
• Ensure logistics requirements are incorporated into procurement decisions, supplier selection, equipment design, packaging, manufacturing, and project schedules.
• Provide strategic direction for multimodal transportation involving road, rail, ocean, inland waterway, and air transportation.
• Ensure early identification of route restrictions, transportation feasibility requirements, port limitations, site access constraints, heavy‑lift requirements, permits, customs, and specialized transportation needs.
• Establish appropriate strategies for heavy‑haul transportation, SPMTs, hydraulic trailers, cranes, heavy‑lift operations, port handling, warehousing, staging, and specialized cargo movements.
• Ensure logistics strategies are aligned with supplier manufacturing schedules and project installation requirements.
• Provide escalation and executive support for critical transportation disruptions, major logistics risks, and high‑value cargo movements.

Kenntnisse

Procurement leadership

Logistics management

Strategic negotiations

Cross-functional leadership

Vendor management

Jobbeschreibung

Voith US Inc. in York, PA, is seeking a Head of Project Procurement to lead the Project Procurement and Logistics & Transport Management functions for complex hydroelectric and energy projects.

You will align procurement strategies with project schedules, manage supplier performance, oversee make/buy decisions, and drive cost control and risk management across the full project lifecycle. The role requires strategic and operational leadership within a matrix organization, coordinating with