Procurement Agent (Construction & AES Procurement Officer)

Date Opened: Friday, November 14, 2025 12:00 AM

Close Date: Sunday, November 30, 2025 12:00 AM

Department: Charlotte Water Department

Salary: $62,091.00 - $77,614.00 Commensurate with Experience

Welcome to the City of Charlotte

Charlotte is America’s Queen City, opening her arms to a diverse and inclusive community of residents, businesses and visitors alike. Here you will find a safe, family-oriented city where people work together to help everyone thrive. The mission of the City of Charlotte is to deliver quality public services and promote the safety, health, and quality of life for all residents.

Our guiding principles include:

• Attracting and retaining a skilled and diverse workforce

• Valuing teamwork, openness, accountability, productivity, and employee development

• Providing all customers with courteous, responsive, accessible, and seamless quality services

• Taking initiative to identify, analyze, and solve problems

• Collaborating with stakeholders to make informed decisions

SUMMARY

This position provides procurement and contracting expertise, consultation, and oversight in support of procurement needs and requirements for Charlotte Water while ensuring application and compliance with state and local guidelines, policies, and statutes to ensure the timely completion of assigned procurements. This position requires in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with all phases of governmental purchasing, contracting, accounting, and reporting. Work also involves partnering with the department’s Business Diversity Team to establish Minority, Women, and Small Business Enterprise (MWSBE) goals for projects, assisting customers with Requests for Council Action, and communicating regularly with customers, vendors, project managers, and other city departments.

The salary for this position is $69,852.60/yr. - $77,613.99/ yr. Commensurate with experience

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:        

• Develops construction and architectural, engineering, and surveying solicitations, conducts bid phase services including, but not limited to, conducting pre-bid meetings and bid openings, facilitating selection meetings issuing addenda, developing bid tabulations and bid analyses, and developing recommendations of award.

• Ensures all procurement activities are coordinated with Charlotte Business INClusion requirements to ensure inclusion of MWSBE vendors and supports compliance initiatives, strategic forecasting, and effective communication of opportunities.

• Responsible for reporting assistance and data analysis including, but not limited to, procurement needs projections, and transaction reviews.

• Drafts contracts, amendments, change orders and renewals and all related negotiating.

• Provides strategic consultation and procurement support to all levels of the organization to facilitate procurement and contracting activities, provide project planning services, facilitation of scope development, spend analysis, and market research.

• Develops and maintains professional relationships with all customers from leadership to end users, and other departments including Charlotte Business INClusion, the City Attorney’s Office, and Risk Management.

• Provides senior level procurement and contracting expertise and consultation in support of all procurement needs and requirements for all divisions.

• Performs all procurement efforts in compliance with state statutes, city policies, and best practices.

• Performs procurement functions within enterprise-wide resource management and departmental systems.

• Performs contract administration, monitoring, and compliance-related activities for contracts assigned.

• Represents the City in dispute resolutions and works to ensure a strong contractually-guided professional business relationship with all vendors and subconsultants.

• Assists with procurement initiatives, special projects, and other tasks as needed.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS TO PERFORM WORK:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited school

• Three (3) years of directly related work experience.

Licenses, Certifications or Registrations:

• Requires a valid driver’s license.

Preferred Certifications:

CLGPO, C.P.M., CPPO, CPPB certifications preferred.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Knowledge of all phases of governmental purchasing, contracting, accounting, and reporting

• Skill in organization

• Skill in written and verbal communicati