Buyer

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Buyer I

Department: Purchasing

Reports To: Purchasing Supervisor

Supervises: N/A

FLSA Status: Exempt

Summary/Objectives: Support sourcing and procurement efforts for materials and services for the company. Review manufacturing material requirements using the company’s demand plans and strategic goals to determine buying needs. Initiate contact with a wide variety of raw, semi-finished and finished parts suppliers to obtain products that meet company specifications and timelines. Negotiate prices, determine availability, review quality specifications, and place orders with suppliers as required. Follow-up on orders placed to ensure proper handling and on-time delivery and maintain records of all buying transactions in accordance with the company’s standard purchasing procedures.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following (other duties may be assigned):

1. Evaluate usage, order point, and requirements using historical ERP data, sales forecasts, and demands. Place required purchase orders for raw materials, purchased parts and enter purchase orders per company SOP’s. Update purchase orders to ensure dates and pricing are accurate.
2. Meet with suppliers and potential suppliers regularly.
3. Develop, grow, and manage relationships with suppliers and their representatives in such a manner that will strengthen the company’s Supply Chain and minimize risk. Maintain a working knowledge of supplier capabilities and their core capabilities.
4. Regularly notify suppliers of manufacturing requirements and business demands, request, and review quotations for new and existing components, negotiate terms for pricing and delivery, and evaluate supplier performance. Issue change orders as required.
5. Follow-up on orders to ensure proper handling and delivery. Expedite late orders, immediate requirements, and system exceptions by direct contact with suppliers and their agents.
6. Investigate, qualify, and recommend alternative/secondary suppliers and alternative materials as needed.
7. Assists in competitive bidding, cost analysis, and negotiations that results in targeted cost savings for the company and/or achieve strategic goals.
8. Consult with Engineering, Quality Assurance, and other departments regarding specifications and/or deviations and recommend alternative material or methods based on knowledge of market availability. Facilitate first article reviews and testing as needed for all new or changed items.
9. Communicate Non-Conformance Reports to the supplier and manage to a resolution of the issue.
10. Review Engineering Change Orders and drawings covering areas of material and parts responsibility.
11. Partner with Engineering and Sales to develop new products by obtaining quotes from existing and new suppliers, provide supplier recommendations, and oversees all meetings and communication with suppliers as Pelco’s agent.
12. Timely Assist Accounting and Inventory with invoice and packing list discrepancies as needed.
13. Maintain supplier product catalogs, quotations and price lists, blanket order files and correspondence files.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities or limitations related to, affected by, or arising out of pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions to perform the essential functions, unless the accommodation will cause and undue hardship.

Competencies: To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

(List of knowledge, skills and abilities required to perform this job)

1. Knowledge of production processes, quality control, costing and other techniques for maximizing the effective, efficient manufacture of goods.
2. Knowledge of and familiarity with ERP systems.
3. Proficient in Microsoft Office suite.
4. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to include collecting and analyzing data resulting in fiscally responsible decisions.
5. Strong communication skills; written, verbal and in-person, to various audiences and all levels of management.
6. Be able to work with all team members within the organization to achieve positive results.

1. Must be able to multi-task, have great organizational skills and a superior attention to detail.
2. Must be high-performance with a dedicated work ethic in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

Education and/or Experience:

(List both required and preferred education and/or experience that are job-related and consistent with business necessity. Include any required certifications, industry-specific experience, equipment experience)

Required:

High school diploma or equivalent.

Preferred:
Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from a four-year college or university preferred.

1-3 years of purchasing/sourcing or finance experience.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be made to qualified individuals in accordance with applicable state and federal law.

Employee will be sitting for long periods of time in front of a computer screen. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:
The primary environment for this position is in an office setting. Work environment is climate-controlled.

While performing the duties of this job the employee may need to go out on the shop floor which is not climate-controlled and requires use of safety glasses and other appropriate personal protective equipment. While on the shop floor the employee can be exposed to airborne contaminants. In addition, the shop floor noise level may exceed permissible exposure limit and hearing protection may be required.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:
Full-Time. Work Schedule: 9/80 Schedule, Monday through Friday with every other Friday off.

Travel: Travel as required.