{"id":3556935,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ats-corporation-project-procurement-lead","title":"Project Procurement Lead","company":{"id":58307,"name":"ATS Corporation","domain":"atsautomation.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/ats-corporation","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"Operations","role_family":"Operations","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Cambridge, Canada"],"countries":["CA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":96000,"max":132000,"currency":"CAD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":94732},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"Microsoft Excel","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-31T01:20:14Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-30","last_verified_at":"2026-11-03T06:18:47Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":3},"description":"Join our globally growing team at ATS Industrial Automation where we create complex automation solutions at the highest level that sustainably impact lives around the world.\nAt ATS, a publicly traded global company with a proud 40-year history, we help drive the future with our factory-wide automation solutions. At ATS Industrial Automation, what we do matters - both to our customers and to their customers. With 1000 skilled employees around the world, we design, build and service mission-critical automated assembly and test solutions for mobility, nuclear and specialty automation. Our customers are leaders in their industries and rely on us to deliver what we promise - on time and on budget. Combined with our broad product portfolio, financial strength and global presence, we provide our customers with the best automation solutions wherever and whenever they need them.\nTotal Compensation and Benefits\n Pay Rate: $96,000 - $132,000 CAD\nEligible for Annual Incentive Bonus\nStock Purchase Plan\nRRSP Match\n3 Weeks Vacation\nHealth Care Benefits + $600 Health Care Spending Account\nEmployee Engagement Events (Employee BBQ’s and lunches, weekly treat day, etc.)\nEmployee Development Programs\nJob Description\nThe opportunity\nDo you enjoy solving problems where engineering, manufacturing, suppliers and project delivery meet? As a Project Procurement Lead, you will own the material budget and material schedule for assigned projects, translating evolving technical requirements into clear procurement plans, timely decisions and practical risk-mitigation actions.\nThis is a hands-on, cross-functional role for someone who can interpret engineering drawings, understand how machined and fabricated components are made, and bring people together to resolve cost, quality and delivery challenges. You will have meaningful visibility across the business and the opportunity to influence projects from early design through post-project review.\nWhat you will do\nOwn and forecast the project material budget and maintain the project procurement plan throughout execution.\nPartner with project and program managers, engineering, assembly, buyers and suppliers to align material requirements with the production schedule.\nIdentify long-lead materials, delivery risks and cost pressures early, then lead practical mitigation and escalation plans.\nDevelop and execute strategies that support material cost reduction, including a target of reducing material costs by 10% where project conditions allow.\nReview component selections and engineering drawings, contribute supply-market insight during design reviews, and help identify lower-cost compliant solutions.\nLead procurement kick-off meetings, provide weekly forecasts and updates, and support daily visual management and project review meetings.\nNegotiate pricing, lead times, delivery commitments and recovery plans with suppliers while balancing supplier realities with project needs.\nResolve requisition and drawing issues, support technical discussions with suppliers, and engage internal value-engineering expertise when needed.\nUse historical and benchmarking data to assess competitive pricing and monitor purchase price variance and material-cost performance.\nCapture lessons learned through post-project reviews and identify opportunities for continuous improvement. \nQualifications\nWhat you bring\nA post-secondary diploma or degree in materials management, manufacturing, engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. With at least five years of relevant experience in custom manufacturing\nThe ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and blueprints. This is essential for the role.\nPractical knowledge of manufacturing processes, particularly machined or fabricated components. Experience in machining, toolmaking, estimating, welding, quality or technical purchasing is highly relevant.\nExperience developing and maintaining a project material procurement plan, or closely related experience managing material cost and schedule commitments.\nStrong negotiation, communication and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to influence without direct authority.\nA track record of organizing ambiguous information, asking the right questions, taking ownership and moving issues toward resolution.\nAdvanced Microsoft Excel capability, including working confidently with large ERP-derived data sets, pivot tables and lookup functions.\nA self-starter who takes initiative, works effectively across functions and independently drives work forward while knowing when to seek support or escalate risks\nAssets that will help you stand out\nExperience in nuclear, regulated manufacturing or another quality-intensive environment.\nKnowledge of metallurgy, raw steel, large fabrications, pressure-boundary components or related supplier markets.\nExperience purchasing or quoting custom automation, machined components or fabricated assemblies.\nA Supply Chain Canada designation or equivalent credential.\nPMP training or certification.\nExperience with CSA B51, CSA N285.0 or NQA quality requirements. \nAdditional Information\nHow you will make an impact\nEarly success will come from building strong working relationships, learning the project and supplier landscape, asking thoughtful questions and establishing a reliable rhythm for weekly forecasting, risk review and communication. As you grow into the role, you will become a trusted connection between project teams and the supply base, helping the business make informed trade-offs and keep complex work moving.\nWork arrangement and travel\nThis position is based in Cambridge, Ontario and is expected to be on-site four to five days per week, depending on business and project needs. Occasional travel within Ontario is expected, typically one to two days per month, to meet with suppliers and support issue resolution.\nWhy this role\nWork on complex, technically challenging projects where your decisions have a visible impact on cost, schedule and execution.\nCollaborate with experienced professionals across supply chain, project management, engineering, assembly and value engineering.\nUse both your technical understanding and commercial judgment rather than working in a narrowly defined purchasing role.\nJoin a team that values curiosity, clear communication, practical problem solving and ownership. \nWhy should you join ATS Industrial Automation?\nBe a part of an engaged, empowered and innovative global workforce\nWe offer a robust total rewards package- Competitive starting salaries, comprehensive health and dental benefits, overtime pay, employee bonus, RSP matching, Employee Share Purchase Program\nWe provide awesome work perks such as treat days, gourmet coffee and beverages, subsidized breakfast and lunches in our cafeteria, employee referral bonuses and lots more.\nWe are intentional about your professional growth and development through internal career opportunities and our educational reimbursement program.\nThe Compensation offered will be based on the local job market and may vary depending on factors such as the job-related knowledge, skills, experience of the selected candidate, as well as other objective business considerations. Subject to these considerations, the total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, such as an annual cash incentive in addition to a full range of medical, retirement, and/or other benefits. Details of these benefit plans will be provided when the selected job candidate receives an offer of employment.\nThis role represents an existing vacancy within the organization.\nATS is in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA), 2005 and will, upon request, assist those who may require specific accommodations due to personal disability. We would ask those who require assistance to notify our offices as soon as possible if accommodation is necessary.\nThe ATS applicant tracking system may utilize AI software with pre-defined, rule-based filters to organize and manage application materials. Rule-based filters operate solely on fixed criteria and do not perform autonomous evaluation or generate independent recommendations. 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