Director of Procurement – Compressed Gas Division
Company: TerraVest Industries
Location: Crossfield, AB.
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent | In-office
Reports To: President, Compressed Gas & Sr. VP of Procurement
About the Role
TerraVest's Compressed Gas Division is looking for a Director of Procurement to lead our purchasing function across seven manufacturing facilities and five service locations in Canada and the USA. This division spans everything from high-mix, low-volume fabrication of trucks, trailers, and bulk storage tanks to high-volume production lines for domestic storage tanks and refurbishment.
Steel is our largest procurement spend, and this role owns mill-direct and warehouse steel buying end to end — forecasting, supplier relationships, quality, and market strategy — alongside LPG parts, truck/trailer parts, inventory management, and cost savings initiatives across the division.
This is a hands-on, high-visibility role reporting directly to our President and Sr. VP of Procurement, with the opportunity to shape procurement strategy across a diverse set of independently run businesses.
What You'll Do
- Directly manage and approve all mill steel procurement; oversee warehouse steel purchases and ensure ordering processes are followed
- Build and maintain yearly steel purchasing forecasts, adjusting for changes in manufacturing demand
- Track macro steel market trends and coordinate volumes, timing, and terms with mill suppliers accordingly
- Own strategic supplier relationships, master agreement negotiation, and pricing across steel, LPG parts, and truck/trailer parts categories
- Partner with plant buyers and business unit General Managers to keep purchasing decisions and inventory levels consistent across the division (without direct authority over the team)
- Lead inventory reduction and turnover initiatives, working with each business unit to develop strategies suited to their product mix and cycles
- Identify and lead cost-saving initiatives, building business cases and reporting realized savings to executive management
- Build and present procurement dashboards and reporting for executive leadership; be a power user of our inventory database
- Collaborate with sister divisions to find purchasing synergies with shared vendors
What You Bring
- Significant experience in purchasing leadership or strategic procurement, including managing or influencing a team
- Direct experience buying steel from mills is strongly preferred — you know plate grades, mill lead times, and how to read the market
- Proven track record negotiating master agreements and managing strategic supplier relationships
- A genuinely analytical, hands-on approach — comfortable pulling and mining your own data in Excel/ERP systems and turning it into a clear recommendation, not just a report someone else built for you
- Experience operating across multiple business units or a decentralized, multi-plant environment is a strong asset
- Strong understanding of inventory management, working capital, and total cost models
- Excellent communication skills and the political acumen to align stakeholders across independently run business units who don't always see eye to eye
- Low ego, high accountability — someone who treats company money like their own and leads by example
A Note on the Environment
Our operating companies run independently, which gives this role real influence but also real complexity: data isn't always centralized, and getting accurate, real-time numbers across business units takes initiative and problem-solving. We're looking for someone who sees that as a challenge worth digging into, not a blocker.
Why TerraVest
TerraVest is a fast-growing company, expanding largely through acquisition — and procurement synergies are a core part of our acquisition thesis, which means this function is central to how we grow, not an afterthought. That growth creates a steady stream of new challenges and real opportunity for career advancement: our current Director of Procurement for this division is being promoted to lead one of our operating companies, which is the role this posting is back filling.
When you Apply
Please include a cover letter that explains your past steel purchasing experience.
Pay: $100,000.00-$135,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- RRSP match
Application question(s):
- Have you previously been responsible for steel plate or other steel product procurement directly from steel mills?
Experience:
- Purchasing: 5 years (required)
Work Location: In person
