Senior Indigenous Procurement Advisor

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Trans Mountain Corporation operates Canada’s only pipeline system transporting oil products to the West Coast. We deliver approximately 890,000 barrels of petroleum products each day through a dual pipeline system of more than 1,150 kilometres of pipeline in Alberta, British Columbia and Washington state.

Trans Mountain also operates a state-of-the-art loading facility, Westridge Marine Terminal, with three berths providing tidewater access to global markets. As a federal Crown corporation, Trans Mountain continues to build on more than 70 years of experience delivering operational and safety excellence through our crude oil pipeline system. With our expanded pipeline system now in place, Trans Mountain provides enhanced direct access for Canadian crude oil to world markets. The expansion realizes a world-class system for oil transport, developed to Canada’s high standards within one of the most stringent regulatory regimes in the world, creating long-term economic benefits, enhanced marine protection, enhanced safety and emergency management capabilities, and enhanced skilled-worker capacity building in communities and Indigenous groups.

Our Core Values

Trans Mountain’s core values – Safety, Integrity, Respect and Excellence – guide our every step. Each obstacle we’ve overcome or success we’ve experienced has been the result of a shared commitment to living these values every day. Together, we’re focused on doing the right thing for each other and our communities. If you are looking for an opportunity to apply your strengths in an environment that encourages Safety, Integrity, Respect, and Excellence, we invite you to explore this opportunity with us

Worker Type: Contract

Schedule Type: Full-time

Work Setting: In-office

Trans Mountain is seeking a collaborative, motivated, and values driven individual to join our dynamic team as a Senior Indigenous Procurement Advisor (Contract). In this position, you will play a key role in developing and advancing Indigenous procurement strategies that increase meaningful participation by Indigenous businesses and communities. The successful candidate will work across internal teams, contractors, and Indigenous partners, the role identifies contracting opportunities, supports supplier readiness, and integrates participation commitments into procurement and project delivery. This position offers the opportunity to also provide practical guidance to Indigenous businesses, monitors commitments, and helps address barriers to support strong partnerships and economic reconciliation.

The successful candidate will be assigned to support strategic project-related work, and other business priorities as organizational needs evolve.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement Indigenous procurement strategies, participation plans, and related initiatives aligned with Partnership Programs, Indigenous Relations, Supply Chain Management, and project objectives.
• Identify upcoming procurement opportunities suitable for Indigenous business participation and assess scope, timing, supplier readiness, capacity, qualifications, and potential delivery models.
• Build and maintain respectful, effective relationships with Indigenous communities, businesses, economic development organizations, and affiliated enterprises.
• Serve as a key point of contact for Indigenous businesses seeking information on procurement opportunities, qualification requirements, sourcing processes, proposal expectations, timelines, evaluation criteria, and award decisions.
• Facilitate meetings, workshops, supplier information sessions, and other engagement activities that improve opportunity awareness and procurement readiness.
• Lead or support supplier outreach, prequalification, sourcing strategies, requests for proposals and quotations, bidder clarifications, evaluations, negotiations, contract development, amendments, change orders, and closeout activities.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain Management and project teams to balance Indigenous participation objectives with supplier capability, overall value, commercial requirements, project risk, and execution certainty.
• Support Indigenous businesses in understanding procurement practices and developing approaches that align with project contracting strategies and execution requirements.
• Work with contractors and proponents to communicate Indigenous procurement requirements, assess proposed participation approaches, monitor commitments, and address gaps or emerging concerns.
• Support capacity building and business development with Indigenous communities and businesses to strengthen procurement readiness, expand access to project opportunities, and support long-term economic participation.
• Coordinate Indigenous procurement activities a