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Get Access To All JobsRequisition ID: 293956
- Relocation Authorized: National/International - Family
- Telework Type: Part-Time Telework
- Work Location: Houston, TX
Extraordinary teams building inspiring projects:
Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.
Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers' objectives to create a lasting positive impact. We serve the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; Mining & Metals, and the Manufacturing and Technology markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations.
Core to Bechtel is our Vision, Values and Commitments. They are what we believe, what customers can expect, and how we deliver. Learn more about our extraordinary teams building inspiring projects in our Impact Report.
Job Summary:
As Program Purchasing Manager, you will oversee purchasing teams in Houston and New Delhi and coordinate priorities across multiple projects. Responsibilities include managing sourcing, bidding, contracts, supplier evaluations, team training, and supplier programs. You will monitor procurement schedules, budgets, and KPIs to ensure cost control and timely delivery, as well as implement procurement strategies aligned with organizational goals and compliance standards. The role also involves leading process improvements, utilizing ERP systems like SAP and Oracle for purchase order management and reporting, supporting audits, maintaining records, and reviewing compliance risks.
"This position is designated as part-time telework per our global telework policy and will require at least three days of in-person attendance per week at the assigned office or project. Weekly in-person schedules will be determined by the individual and their supervisor, in consultation with functional or project leadership.” #LI-CS1
Major Responsibilities:
- Leads and develops a team of purchasing personnel across multiple projects, in Houston and India offices, ensuring capability, consistency, and proficiency in all procurement functions from pre-award through closeout.
- Provides program-level oversight to procurement activities, ensuring alignment, standardization, and best practice sharing across all projects within the program.
- Oversees the formation, issuance, and administration of purchase orders across the program, ensuring alignment with project requirements, policies, and commercial objectives.
- Directs team engagement with suppliers and internal stakeholders to establish clear requirements and ensure compliance with contractual terms and conditions across multiple project interfaces.
- Provides strategic oversight of bidder prequalification, bid list development, solicitation processes, bid evaluations, and award recommendations to drive best-value outcomes across the program.
- Develop Supplier Relationship Management Program for the program.
- Guides and supports complex, high-value supplier negotiations, including development of negotiation strategies, commercial terms, pricing, schedules, and coordination with Project and Legal teams.
- Drives supplier relationship management strategies at a program level to optimize supplier performance, leverage scale, and ensure alignment with overall program objectives.
- Ensures team understanding of project estimate baselines across the portfolio and proactively identifies and manages trends, risks, and cost impacts.
- Maintains accountability for accurate, auditable, and compliant procurement records management and adherence to Supply Chain governance requirements across all projects.
- Oversees supplier performance management program-wide, including issuance of formal notices and direction of backcharge and claims processes.
- Coordinates and manages procurement deliverables in support of Front End Engineering Design (FEED) phases across multiple projects, ensuring alignment with scope, schedule, and cost objectives.
- Provides leadership oversight of procurement planning and execution specific to FEED activities, including early supplier engagement and market input.
- Leverages experience in LNG supply chains (preferred) to guide sourcing strategies, supplier selection, and risk mitigation for specialized equipment and services.
- Proactively identifies and manages procurement-related risks at the program level, including long-lead items, market capacity constraints, supplier financial exposure, and global supply chain volatility for suppliers in the LNG industry.
- Ensures procurement strategies and commercial terms are fully aligned with prime contract requirements, customer expectations, and financing constraints across the portfolio.
- Strengthens integration with Engineering, Construction, Material Management, and Field Procurement to ensure purchasing strategies support constructability, sequencing, and field execution needs.
Education and Experience Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain or equivalent experience.
- 15+ years of experience in procurement for major equipment and bulk materials in the Energy sector.
- Experience in EPC environments.
- Prior experience leading procurement across multiple projects under a program structure is desirable.
Required Knowledge and Skills:
- Defines and develops procurement scope, strategies, execution plans, schedules, forecasts, and budgets covering multiple projects under one program.
- Leads procurement execution across varied project scopes ensuring compliance with project-specific flowdowns.
- Maintains program-level oversight while enabling project-specific execution discipline.
- Coordinates procurement inputs for proposals, changes, and contract modifications.
- Prepares and administers purchasing documents.
- Leads commercial negotiations and supplier engagements.
- Plans and manages procurement work hours, budgets, and forecasts.
- Adapts resources and priorities as project needs shift.
- Delivers procurement status and strategy presentations.
- Ensures alignment with Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, and Operations.
- Monitors procurement metrics, risks, and performance.
- Leads onboarding, mentoring, and performance management of teams.
- Oversees procurement close-out activities and supports claims and lessons learned.
- Strong purchasing and expediting experience across the project lifecycle.
- Working knowledge of Engineering, Construction, and Quality procedures.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams across concurrent projects and adapt execution strategies.
- Proven personnel management and leadership capability.
Total Rewards/Benefits:
For decades, Bechtel has worked to inspire the next generation of employees and beyond! Because our teams face some of the world's toughest challenges, we offer robust benefits to ensure our people thrive. Whether it is advancing careers, delivering programs to enhance our culture, or providing time to recharge, Bechtel has the benefits to build a legacy of sustainable growth. Learn more at Bechtel Total Rewards.
Diverse teams build the extraordinary:
As a global company, Bechtel has long been home to a vibrant multitude of nationalities, cultures, ethnicities, and life experiences. This diversity has made us a more trusted partner, more effective problem solvers and innovators, and a more attractive destination for leading talent.
We are committed to being a company where every colleague feels that they belong - where colleagues feel part of "One Team," respected and rewarded for what they bring, supported in pursuing their goals, invested in our values and purpose, and treated equitably.
Bechtel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, disability, citizenship status (except as authorized by law), protected veteran status, genetic information, and any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Applicants with a disability, who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, may e-mail their request to acesstmt@bechtel.com.
Requisition ID: 293956
- Relocation Authorized: National/International - Family
- Telework Type: Part-Time Telework
- Work Location: Houston, TX
Extraordinary teams building inspiring projects:
Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.
Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers' objectives to create a lasting positive impact. We serve the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; Mining & Metals, and the Manufacturing and Technology markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations.
Core to Bechtel is our Vision, Values and Commitments. They are what we believe, what customers can expect, and how we deliver. Learn more about our extraordinary teams building inspiring projects in our Impact Report.
Job Summary:
As Program Purchasing Manager, you will oversee purchasing teams in Houston and New Delhi and coordinate priorities across multiple projects. Responsibilities include managing sourcing, bidding, contracts, supplier evaluations, team training, and supplier programs. You will monitor procurement schedules, budgets, and KPIs to ensure cost control and timely delivery, as well as implement procurement strategies aligned with organizational goals and compliance standards. The role also involves leading process improvements, utilizing ERP systems like SAP and Oracle for purchase order management and reporting, supporting audits, maintaining records, and reviewing compliance risks.
"This position is designated as part-time telework per our global telework policy and will require at least three days of in-person attendance per week at the assigned office or project. Weekly in-person schedules will be determined by the individual and their supervisor, in consultation with functional or project leadership.” #LI-CS1
Major Responsibilities:
- Leads and develops a team of purchasing personnel across multiple projects, in Houston and India offices, ensuring capability, consistency, and proficiency in all procurement functions from pre-award through closeout.
- Provides program-level oversight to procurement activities, ensuring alignment, standardization, and best practice sharing across all projects within the program.
- Oversees the formation, issuance, and administration of purchase orders across the program, ensuring alignment with project requirements, policies, and commercial objectives.
- Directs team engagement with suppliers and internal stakeholders to establish clear requirements and ensure compliance with contractual terms and conditions across multiple project interfaces.
- Provides strategic oversight of bidder prequalification, bid list development, solicitation processes, bid evaluations, and award recommendations to drive best-value outcomes across the program.
- Develop Supplier Relationship Management Program for the program.
- Guides and supports complex, high-value supplier negotiations, including development of negotiation strategies, commercial terms, pricing, schedules, and coordination with Project and Legal teams.
- Drives supplier relationship management strategies at a program level to optimize supplier performance, leverage scale, and ensure alignment with overall program objectives.
- Ensures team understanding of project estimate baselines across the portfolio and proactively identifies and manages trends, risks, and cost impacts.
- Maintains accountability for accurate, auditable, and compliant procurement records management and adherence to Supply Chain governance requirements across all projects.
- Oversees supplier performance management program-wide, including issuance of formal notices and direction of backcharge and claims processes.
- Coordinates and manages procurement deliverables in support of Front End Engineering Design (FEED) phases across multiple projects, ensuring alignment with scope, schedule, and cost objectives.
- Provides leadership oversight of procurement planning and execution specific to FEED activities, including early supplier engagement and market input.
- Leverages experience in LNG supply chains (preferred) to guide sourcing strategies, supplier selection, and risk mitigation for specialized equipment and services.
- Proactively identifies and manages procurement-related risks at the program level, including long-lead items, market capacity constraints, supplier financial exposure, and global supply chain volatility for suppliers in the LNG industry.
- Ensures procurement strategies and commercial terms are fully aligned with prime contract requirements, customer expectations, and financing constraints across the portfolio.
- Strengthens integration with Engineering, Construction, Material Management, and Field Procurement to ensure purchasing strategies support constructability, sequencing, and field execution needs.
Education and Experience Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain or equivalent experience.
- 15+ years of experience in procurement for major equipment and bulk materials in the Energy sector.
- Experience in EPC environments.
- Prior experience leading procurement across multiple projects under a program structure is desirable.
Required Knowledge and Skills:
- Defines and develops procurement scope, strategies, execution plans, schedules, forecasts, and budgets covering multiple projects under one program.
- Leads procurement execution across varied project scopes ensuring compliance with project-specific flowdowns.
- Maintains program-level oversight while enabling project-specific execution discipline.
- Coordinates procurement inputs for proposals, changes, and contract modifications.
- Prepares and administers purchasing documents.
- Leads commercial negotiations and supplier engagements.
- Plans and manages procurement work hours, budgets, and forecasts.
- Adapts resources and priorities as project needs shift.
- Delivers procurement status and strategy presentations.
- Ensures alignment with Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, and Operations.
- Monitors procurement metrics, risks, and performance.
- Leads onboarding, mentoring, and performance management of teams.
- Oversees procurement close-out activities and supports claims and lessons learned.
- Strong purchasing and expediting experience across the project lifecycle.
- Working knowledge of Engineering, Construction, and Quality procedures.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams across concurrent projects and adapt execution strategies.
- Proven personnel management and leadership capability.
Total Rewards/Benefits:
For decades, Bechtel has worked to inspire the next generation of employees and beyond! Because our teams face some of the world's toughest challenges, we offer robust benefits to ensure our people thrive. Whether it is advancing careers, delivering programs to enhance our culture, or providing time to recharge, Bechtel has the benefits to build a legacy of sustainable growth. Learn more at Bechtel Total Rewards.
Diverse teams build the extraordinary:
As a global company, Bechtel has long been home to a vibrant multitude of nationalities, cultures, ethnicities, and life experiences. This diversity has made us a more trusted partner, more effective problem solvers and innovators, and a more attractive destination for leading talent.
We are committed to being a company where every colleague feels that they belong - where colleagues feel part of "One Team," respected and rewarded for what they bring, supported in pursuing their goals, invested in our values and purpose, and treated equitably.
Bechtel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, disability, citizenship status (except as authorized by law), protected veteran status, genetic information, and any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Applicants with a disability, who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, may e-mail their request to acesstmt@bechtel.com.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Purchasing Manager
Frame your credentials for U.S. specialty occupation
Your Australian three-year bachelor's degree in supply chain, commerce, or business satisfies the E-3 degree requirement. Get a credential evaluation that maps it to a U.S. four-year equivalent before applying to roles.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Search DOL's OFLC disclosure data for companies that have filed Labor Condition Applications for Purchasing Manager or Supply Chain Manager roles. Prior LCA filings confirm the employer understands E-3 sponsorship obligations.
Use Migrate Mate to find verified E-3 roles
Migrate Mate filters Purchasing Manager openings by employers with E-3 sponsorship history, so you're not cold-applying to companies unfamiliar with the process. Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork once you have an offer.
Clarify sponsorship scope during offer negotiations
Some employers agree to sponsor but assume the employee covers filing fees. Confirm in writing that the employer will file and pay for the LCA certification and any associated legal fees before you accept the offer.
Negotiate a start date that clears LCA processing
DOL typically certifies an LCA within seven business days, but employer HR delays can extend the timeline. Build at least three to four weeks between offer acceptance and your intended start date to avoid a last-minute scramble.
Document category management and sourcing scope precisely
Purchasing Manager is a defined specialty occupation, but vague job titles like 'buyer' or 'procurement coordinator' can complicate consular review. Ensure your offer letter specifies degree requirements and strategic sourcing responsibilities that align with the role's specialty occupation classification.
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Find Purchasing Manager JobsPurchasing Manager E-3 Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Purchasing Manager jobs that offer E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is the most direct way to search for Purchasing Manager roles filtered by employers with E-3 sponsorship history. Most general job boards don't separate E-3-capable employers from those that only sponsor H-1B, so you can spend significant time on outreach that leads nowhere. Migrate Mate surfaces roles where the employer has already demonstrated willingness to work with Australian candidates on E-3 visas.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Purchasing Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes. USCIS recognises Purchasing Manager as a specialty occupation because the role typically requires at minimum a bachelor's degree in supply chain management, business administration, or a related field. Your offer letter and the employer's job description should reflect that a specific degree is required, not merely preferred, to support the specialty occupation classification at the consular interview.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Purchasing Manager roles?
The E-3 has no lottery and no annual numerical cap that affects individual applicants in practice, so your application isn't subject to the random selection that blocks most H-1B candidates. The trade-off is exclusivity: you must be an Australian citizen. For Purchasing Managers who qualify, the E-3 is significantly more predictable than H-1B, with two-year renewable status and consulate appointments typically available within weeks.
Can I switch employers while on an E-3 as a Purchasing Manager?
Yes, but each new employer must file a fresh LCA with DOL and you'll need a new visa stamp if your current stamp reflects your previous employer's details. Unlike H-1B portability, the E-3 doesn't allow you to start working for a new employer simply by filing a transfer petition. Plan your transition timing to account for LCA certification and, if required, a new consular appointment in Australia.
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