px Group

Head of Supply Chain

px Group  •  Sunderland, GB (Onsite)  •  16 days ago
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Job Description

Head of Supply Chain

Application Deadline: 3 July 2026

Department: Contracts & Procurement

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Sunderland

Our Business

pxFairport (pxF) is a project delivery specialist offering full turnkey EPC and OEM solutions to the bulk material handling and plant processing markets. Our services cover the aggregates, processing, tunnelling, mining, quarrying, alternative fuels, waste-to-energy, ports, and food sectors, globally. With unrivalled industry expertise, pxF manages, specifies, engineers, designs, supplies, installs, operates, and maintains market leading equipment for complex material handling needs, guaranteeing performance excellence, reliability, and optimal operating costs.

The Opportunity
We are now recruiting for a Head of Supply Chain.

Reporting to the Group Projects Director, the Head of Supply Chain provides strategic and operational leadership across Procurement, logistics, inventory, and supplier development. The role ensures all goods and services are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required levels of quality, supporting multi-project delivery in a fast-paced heavy engineering environment.

You’ll be supported with personalised on the job training, coaching, mentoring and twice-yearly development and performance reviews to help maintain & develop your contributions and competence.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and deliver the Group Supply Chain Strategy, aligned to business targets, growth, and project delivery requirements
  • Lead strategic sourcing initiatives, expanding and strengthening the supplier base
  • Negotiate long-term supplier agreements, payment terms
  • Build relationships and develop partnerships / key framework agreements and MPAs with strategic suppliers
  • Implement supplier scorecards, performance criteria, and metrics
  • Monitor global commodity trends, logistics constraints, interpret movements, highlighting risk and/or opportunity to project margins
  • Lead the development of Supply Chain and Procurement systems, processes, organisational structure, and capabilities
  • Lead the Supply Chain & Procurement teams, ensuring delivery of QCD (Quality, Cost, Delivery) across all projects
  • Ensure Procurement processes comply with the company IMS, ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 frameworks
  • Oversee RFQ > PR > PO Procurement processes and governance, ensuring accuracy against specification, FTR performance, and alignment with project schedules
  • Manage high-value, key supplier purchase order/contracts


Minimum Requirements:

  • CIPS qualified to L5 or working towards
  • Extensive Senior Procurement/Supply Chain leadership experience in construction, heavy engineering, or process industries
  • Strong commercial acumen with proven success in high-value negotiations
  • Global sourcing experience of high-value, bespoke equipment
  • Experience sourcing structural steel, OEM equipment, fabricated assemblies, and coated products
  • Experience of managing multi-disciplinary teams across more than one location
  • Strong understanding of ISO frameworks and EN1090 requirements

What you will receive from us:

25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Contribution towards eye test and glasses
Online company discount benefits site including cinema tickets and gym membership discount
Long Service Awards
Employee recognition scheme – ELITE Awards
Employee Assistance Programme
Flexible Benefits Package
Onsite parking

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note this role may close early or be extended depending on the volume of applications.

px Group

About px Group

px Group is a fully integrated infrastructure solutions business which delivers net zero and stakeholder success through elite performance in the safety, availability, reliability and efficiency of energy infrastructure, industrial processes and related commercial activities - unlocking value for our customers as a trusted partner. Part of the Ara Partners portfolio of companies, Ara Partners is a private equity firm specialising in industrial decarbonisation investments.

Operating on a 24/7 basis, providing services at this level requires professionalism and competence coupled with a safety and environmentally conscious mind set to deliver operational excellence.

This capability has been shaped by a 25 year history in managing, operating and maintaining some of Europe’s most significant industrial infrastructure including two of the UK’s largest and most strategic gas processing facilities.

px Group also owns Saltend Chemicals Park at the heart of the UK’s Energy Estuary in the Humber, home to several world-leading manufacturing businesses such as Mitsubishi Chemicals, INEOS, and Vivergo Fuels and the location for Equinor’s hydrogen production plant with carbon capture, the anchor project for Zero Carbon Humber. This introduction of hydrogen at our Saltend Park, and our continuous search with all current and new industrial users for further synergies in energy and resource use will help to transform the park into a future proof Green Energy Park.

We are committed to the Energy Transition, and reducing emissions across all our operations, including the sites we manage and operate on behalf of our clients. We are growing internationally and are involved in some of the newest flagship waste-to-fuels projects including ReNew’s plastic recycling plant in Teesside and GIDARA Energy’s advanced biofuels facility in Amsterdam which will convert non-recyclable waste into bio-methanol.

Industry
Oil, Gas & Mining
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Stockton On Tees, GB
Year Founded
Unknown
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