Job DescriptionStone Procurement Manager — Quarry & Block Sourcing (Owner's Office)

The Project

We are constructing a large private classical residence designed by a leading UK architectural practice, involving approximately 12,000 cubic feet of carving-grade Gwalior Mint sandstone — domes, Corinthian capitals, entablatures, cornices, balustrades, and solid ashlar facing. All stone is purchased as raw quarry blocks and fabricated in our own captive yard (CNC and hand-carving) under our lead sculptor.

The Role

You will own the stone supply pipeline from quarry face to yard gate: Sourcing & contracting

- Identify, evaluate, and negotiate directly with quarry owners in the Gwalior-Morena belt (no middlemen, no Kishangarh trade)
- Structure quarry-section reservation agreements covering multi-month extraction programmes
- Run the control-block approval process with the stone consultants — establishing the physical reference standard against which all supply is judged

Block selection & quality

- Inspect and select blocks at the quarry: soundness, vents, clay pockets, iron staining, bed height, and extraction sizes adequate for dome voussoirs and long cornice runs
- Enforce bedding-plane orientation requirements per element type as specified by the consultants
- Exercise rejection rights at quarry and again at our yard; maintain the block register with full piece traceability

Programme & logistics

- Schedule extraction against the fabrication programme so the yard is never starved and never overstocked
- Manage transport (600+ km haul to Ahmedabad), breakage-in-transit, and landed-cost control
- Certify inspected deliveries as the basis for staged payments (payment release itself sits with Finance — see below)

Statutory & documentation

- Verify mining lease validity, royalty payment, and transit passes under MP minor minerals rules for every consignment




- Maintain complete procurement documentation to audit standard

Who We Are Looking For

- 10+ years in the Indian stone industry with genuine quarry-side block procurement experience — you can judge a block by eye, chip, and hammer, and you know what a bad bed looks like before it is sawn

- Strongly preferred: procurement/sourcing experience on institutional stone projects (large temple construction programmes, heritage restoration, or monumental public works) or as a sourcing/grading manager at a responsible dimension-stone block exporter :

- Working knowledge of sandstone geology — bedding planes, saturation, seasoning — and willingness to work under a consulting geologist's written specification rather than trade custom

- Deep personal network among quarry owners in MP/Rajasthan; you know who extracts sound block and who dresses up reject

- Hindi essential; English and/or Gujarati desirable

- Comfortable in a structured owner's office with strict separation of duties : you negotiate, select, and receive stone; quality is independently certified; payments are released by Finance against certified deliveries. This structure is non-negotiable and protects you as much as it protects us.

What This Role Is Not

- Not a tile/paving/slab trading role
- Not a site execution or masonry supervision role
- Not a desk procurement role — this job is won or lost at the quarry face

What We Offer

- One of the most ambitious classical stone projects in private hands in India today, with a UK design pedigree and a captive fabrication operation
- Direct access to the promoter; no layers between you and the decision-maker
- Compensation benchmarked to seniority and structured to reward supply quality, not volume

To apply : Send your CV with a note describing the largest block-procurement programme you have personally run — quarries used, volumes, and how you handled rejection and bed selection.

Pay: ₹18,630.26 - ₹69,659.56 per month

Work Location: In person

📌 Stone Procurement Manager Quarry & Block Sourcing (Ahmedabad)
🏢 Rajaswi Group
📍 Ahmedabad