Industrial Procurement & Vendor Coordinator - Remote Contract

Limelight Steel, Inc.; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 83,000; Part time

Job summary

Limelight Steel, Inc. is seeking a contract Procurement & Vendor Coordinator to manage day-to-day buying, expediting, and vendor coordination for a laser steelmaking demonstration plant in Oakland, CA.

The role is 20–30 hours weekly for the next 2–4 months, with flexible scheduling to meet heavy procurement and fabrication loads. You will own purchase and fabrication packages, obtain quotes, raise requests, place orders, and drive vendor delivery to site, while engineering provides cost,

Qualifications

• 5+ years in procurement, expediting or vendor coordination on industrial capital projects.
• Experience with owner’s project team or equipment fabricator.
• Bought and expedited mechanical equipment, fabricated steel, piping and valves, and electrical/instrumentation items.
• Reads P&IDs, BOMs, data sheets and fabrication drawings well enough to buy against them and spot gaps.
• Organized and persistent: keeps an order list current and chases vendors until the material is on site.
• Clear written communicator with vendors and engineers; knows when to decide and when to elevate.

Responsibilities

• Own the procurement package list for laser furnace and sulfur system; keep scope, vendor, quote, PO, promised date, actual date and status current.
• Issue RFQs from engineering specs; gather quotes; prepare short bid summaries; place orders once authorized.
• Raise spend requests in Procurify with proper backup, track through approval and PO release.
• Place and manage orders for custom fabricated weldments, piping, fittings, valves, pumps, insulation, instrumentation, bulk materials.
• Source and set up service and labour contracts with engineering defining the scope.

Skills

Procurement

Expediting

Vendor coordination

Reading P&IDs/BOMs

Documentation & record-keeping

Communication

Tools

Procurify

Job description

Limelight Steel, Inc. is seeking a contract Procurement & Vendor Coordinator to manage day-to-day buying, expediting, and vendor coordination for a laser steelmaking demonstration plant in Oakland, CA.

The role is 20–30 hours weekly for the next 2–4 months, with flexible scheduling to meet heavy procurement and fabrication loads. You will own purchase and fabrication packages, obtain quotes, raise requests, place orders, and drive vendor delivery to site, while engineering provides cost,