Job Description

About The Job

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a Supply Chain Specialist (Mechanical) to lead end-to-end procurement and supplier management activities for mechanical materials and equipment on major projects. This role focuses on developing and executing RFPs, driving multi-sourcing and risk mitigation strategies, conducting supplier evaluations, and ensuring timely, cost-effective project delivery. The position requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams to manage supplier performance, mitigate supply chain risks, and maintain continuity in alignment with client and organizational objectives. This is a remote role that requires some flexibility to support project needs

Role accountabilities:

• Lead the preparation, review, and issuance of RFPs for mechanical materials and equipment packages, ensuring clarity of technical, commercial, and risk mitigation requirements.
• Embed multi-sourcing, supplier resilience, and business continuity criteria into RFP documents (e.g., alternate supplier qualification, BCP evidence, geographic diversification).
• Coordinate with engineering, project controls, and client teams to finalize and approve RFP scope and deliverables.
• Execute supplier prequalification and evaluation against RFP criteria: technical capability, BCP, delivery history, geographic diversity, and financial health.
• Develop and maintain a criticality matrix for materials/equipment and map out single-source risks.
• Implement and monitor multi-sourcing strategies for Class A/B items, ensuring backup supply options.
• Lead supplier engagement sessions, clarification meetings, and scenario workshops (e.g., disruption simulation, BCP testing).
• Ensure complete buyout of mechanical material & equipment scope as per project schedule and risk assessment.
• Negotiate and finalize purchase orders and contracts, including lead-time guarantees, buffer stock requirements, and escalation clauses.
• Track buyout status, update risk registers, and escalate outstanding issues.
• Define and track core KPIs: defect rate, OTIF (On Time In Full), lead time variance, cost savings, corrective action implementation, and critical supplier risk rating.
• Maintain supplier performance dashboards and report on trends, risks, and improvement actions.
• Drive root-cause analysis and corrective action with suppliers for performance issues or nonconformances.
• Collaborate with engineering, logistics, QA/QC, and construction teams to align procurement activities with project milestones.
• Support audits, compliance reviews, and lessons-learned sessions related to procurement and supplier management.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Supply Chain, Logistics, or related field.
• 5+ years’ supply chain/procurement experience in mechanical materials/equipment or industrial projects.
• Demonstrated experience in RFP development, supplier risk assessment, and buyout execution.
• Familiarity with supplier performance management, KPI dashboards, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Proficient in procurement/ERP tools (SAP, Oracle, etc.) and MS Excel/Power BI for reporting.
• Understanding of supplier business continuity, multi-sourcing, and international supply chains.
• Technical understanding of mechanical materials/equipment and ability to manage multiple priorities and work to tight deadlines.
• Collaborative and able to work cross-functionally in a project environment.
• Ability to provide legal US work authorization documents required. Will consider US domestic travelers and relocation.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. Salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.