Purchasing Manager
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Coatesville, Pennsylvania, United States
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Operations
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- • Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Construction Management, or equivalent professional experience.
- • 5+ years of progressive purchasing/procurement experience, ideally spanning both manufacturing/fabrication and construction or industrial environments.
- • Demonstrated experience managing supplier relationships, negotiating pricing/terms, and managing purchase orders against budgets.
- • Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and purchasing/ERP or accounting systems; comfort building and maintaining tracking tools.
- • Ability to travel regularly to Downingtown and Sinking Spring, and occasionally to active field project sites.
Nice to have
- • Experience purchasing structural steel, welding consumables, or other fabrication/construction materials.
- • Familiarity with AISC/AWS quality and certification requirements, or a willingness to learn them quickly.
- • Experience scaling a purchasing function to support company growth (multi-site, increasing project volume, or added shop capacity).
- • Working knowledge of rigging/hauling equipment, heavy equipment rental markets, or industrial construction logistics.
- Core Competencies
- • Cross-functional collaboration — equally effective working with shop floor personnel, field superintendents, estimators, and office staff.
- • Process-builder mindset — comfortable creating structure and documentation where none exists today.
- • Negotiation and vendor management.
- • Organization and follow-through across a high volume of concurrent purchase orders and projects.
- • Clear written and verbal communication.
- Work Environment & Physical Demands
- Primarily an office environment based in Coatesville, with regular time spent on the fabrication shop floor and regular travel to Downingtown and Sinking Spring, which may include exposure to noise, h
- What Success Looks Like
- • Fabrication and field teams consistently have the materials and equipment they need, when they need them, with minimal production or project delays caused by procurement gaps.
- • Purchasing costs are actively managed and benchmarked, with visible savings or cost avoidance over time.
Full description
Company Overview
JGM is a structural steel fabrication and industrial construction company operating AISC-certified fabrication shops in Coatesville and Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania (D1.1 structural and D1.5 bridge welding certifications, including Fracture Critical endorsement), alongside a national Construction Services field team performing traveling erection, rigging, hauling, and industrial construction work. JGM serves clients across infrastructure, power generation, pharmaceutical, mining, and manufacturing markets, and is known for taking on fast-track, high-complexity projects that other fabricators turn away.
Position Summary
The Purchasing Manager leads procurement across all of JGM's operations — fabrication shop materials and consumables, field/construction equipment and supplies, and general office/corporate purchasing — with the goal of ensuring the right materials and services arrive at the right place, at the right time, at the right cost. This is both a strategic and a tactical role: the successful candidate will handle the day-to-day tactical work of issuing POs, expediting orders, and resolving vendor issues, while also building the vendor relationships, systems, and processes that will let purchasing scale smoothly as JGM adds capacity, shops, and project volume. Based in Coatesville with regular travel to Downingtown and Sinking Spring, this is a highly cross-functional role that touches Fabrication, Field Construction, Estimating, Project Management, Safety, and Administration, and requires someone equally comfortable on the shop floor, on a jobsite call, and in a spreadsheet. The role reports to the Controller, reflecting the tight coordination required between purchasing activity and cost/budget control.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Purchasing & Scalability (Future Focus)
- Build for scale, not just today: design and document purchasing processes, approval workflows, and vendor structures that can support JGM's growth in shop capacity, headcount, and project volume without a proportional increase in purchasing headcount.
- Category and vendor strategy: develop sourcing strategies for steel and raw material, welding consumables, PPE/safety equipment, tooling, rigging and hauling equipment, fuel, and office/facility supplies, balancing cost, lead time, and quality.
- Preferred vendor programs: consolidate spend where it makes sense, negotiate volume pricing and payment terms, and establish backup/secondary suppliers to reduce single-source risk on critical materials.
- Forecasting: work with Estimating, Project Management, and Fabrication leadership to anticipate material needs against the project pipeline and backlog, rather than purchasing reactively.
- Cost visibility: track and report material cost trends (e.g., structural steel pricing) and flag exposure on active or upcoming bids.