Onsite Procurement Manager- Grey Space

NorthMark Strategies is a leading investment firm, combining capital, innovation, and engineering to drive long-term value. From operating complex businesses to backing breakthrough technologies, our mission is to build enduring businesses. Our team combines intelligent risk-taking, operational excellence, exceptional talent, and world-class computing capacity to create shareholder value.

Our company offers a dynamic environment where individuals have the freedom to lead companies toward bold achievements by embracing innovation, leveraging technology, and fostering differentiated business strategies. Our values are Integrity, Ability, and Energy, and the company aims to hire individuals who possess those qualities.

At NorthMark Strategies, we believe the future isn’t something to hope for, it’s something to build. We don’t just invest, we create. Bringing together strategic insight and technical horsepower to deliver outcomes that endure.

The Position

The Onsite Procurement Manager – Grey Space will be NorthMark’s procurement presence at the project site.

This is a senior individual contributor role, fully onsite in the active construction environment. It combines two modes of work: reactive field buying — ad-hoc requests from boots on the ground for MEP components, tools, expedited replacement parts, and unplanned needs — and strategic, programmatic ownership of the recurring site categories that keep the job running: rental equipment, consumables, small equipment, and site services.

Success looks like a construction team that never loses a shift waiting on procurement, controlled site-level spend, and a local supply base that can turn on demand.

Responsibilities:

Field / ad-hoc buying

• Serve as the onsite procurement point of contact for construction leadership, trade foremen, and site engineering; triage and execute ad-hoc buying requests through same-day or next-day fulfillment.
• Source and expedite MEP components, MRO, replacement parts, and specialty items when planned deliveries slip, equipment fails, or unforeseen needs arise.
• Apply commercial judgment in the field: assess urgency, screen requests, challenge scope where warranted, and route non-urgent items back into planned buying channels.
• Manage the site-level PO book: emergency/expedited POs, small-dollar buys, and blanket order releases with high transaction volume.

Rental equipment program

• Own the site rental equipment program end to end: cranes, aerial lifts, forklifts and telehandlers, generators, temporary power distribution, temporary HVAC, light towers, compressors, and site services.
• Manage rental supplier relationships, rate agreements, on/off-rent tracking, damage/loss claims, and monthly billing accuracy.
• Forecast rental demand with the construction team; drive rate-lock and consolidation opportunities across long-duration rentals.

Consumables and small equipment

• Own the consumables program covering MEP installation materials, fasteners, PPE, safety supplies, and general construction consumables.
• Manage vendor-managed inventory programs, jobsite trailers, and blanket agreements with local distributors.
• Own the small equipment program: hand tools, power tools, testing and measurement equipment, and small MEP components.
• Track site-level consumable spend and identify recurring cost leakage before it compounds in conjunction with supply chain team.[SS1]

Site vendor management

• Build and maintain a local supplier base capable of same-day/next-day response for MEP, industrial, and construction categories.
• Vet local vendors for capacity, credit, insurance, safety, and quality before onboarding.
• Manage delivery coordination and receiving discipline in partnership with the EPC and site logistics.

Interface and coordination

• Coordinate daily with the third-party EPC, trade partners, and site logistics on delivery sequencing, laydown, and receiving.
• Escalate slippage or supply risk to Grey Space category leads and construction leadership early, with fact-based recovery options.
• Support the EPC/Infrastructure Manager on commercial matters where site-level activity intersects EPC scope.

Requirements:

• 10 years of procurement, materials management, or site buying experience, including significant time in field / onsite roles on active construction projects.
• Direct experience buying MEP components, industrial supplies, rentals, and consumables in a construction environment.
• Working knowledge of MEP scope sufficient to evaluate requests from trades and identify miss-buys, spec issues, or scope creep before a PO issues.
• Demonstrated ability to work at pace: multiple concurrent requests, same-day turnaround expectations, and high transaction volume without losing control of the book.
• Rental equipment category experience: rate structures, on/off-rent management, and rental billing.
• Ability to operate independently in an active construction site: comfortable with safety requirements, PPE, and physical site mobility across an active jobsite.
• Working command of ERP-based purchasing.
• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, construction management, engineering, or business — or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Data center, mission-critical facility, semiconductor, or other heavy industrial construction site experience.
• Familiarity with OFCI/CFCI delivery models and working alongside EPC or GC partners on active builds.
• Trade background (electrical, mechanical, pipefitting, MRO) transitioned into procurement.
• Established relationships with national and regional industrial distributors and rental houses.
• Microsoft Dynamics 365, Coupa, Procore, or comparable platforms.
• OSHA 30 (construction).
• APICS/ASCM (CPIM, CSCP) or ISM (CPSM) certification.