Buyer

• Own subcontract packages from request to award for civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, fire protection and specialty trades.
• Build requests for proposal with Engineering and Construction and check scopes, drawings and specifications for gaps.
• Build bidder lists, issue packages, run pre-bid meetings, and manage bidder questions and addenda.
• Level bids and write award recommendations covering price, schedule, qualifications and risk.
• Follow competitive bidding and approval policy and aim for three qualified bidders per package.
• Prepare work orders from the standard form under the master services agreement.
• Negotiate commercial terms covering scope, price, schedule and payment milestones.
• Prepare packages for Legal review and signature and track execution.
• Hand executed awards to the Procurement Analyst for budget coding and schedule-of-values setup.
• Evaluate vendor change-order requests for scope and price with Construction and Project Controls.
• Build qualified vendor pools by commodity and region.
• Qualify vendors on NDA, master services agreement, insurance, bonding and safety.
• Run post-award kickoffs and track vendor performance.
• Maintain current vendor records in the vendor database.
• Establish subcontract procurement for new sites and improve templates, playbooks and tools as the portfolio grows.
• Use AI-native procurement tools, Claude, Google Sheets and Google Drive data systems to draft, log, compare and check procurement information.
• Run several live packages simultaneously across multiple projects.

Buyer jobs in Texas

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