Buyer

Job Title: Buyer

Department: Operations

Reports To: Director of Operations

SUMMARY: Responsible for activities involved with procuring products and services to support manufacturing and product development. You will manage a variety of suppliers and execute purchase orders to meet cost, quality, and delivery goals.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following.

• Maintain Vendor and Purchase Order records while adhering to all purchasing procedures, ISO or AS9100 Quality System requirements, ITAR regulations, and DFARS requirements.
• Manage suppliers to meet delivery, quality, and cost goals.
• Maintain bid requests, analyze quotes, compare prices, and negotiate contracts.
• Communicate effectively verbally and in writing with Suppliers, co-workers and management.
• Use ERP system to determine material requirements, maintain open order report, and manage exception reports.
• Maintain ERP system to retain accurate purchasing data including lead times, pricing, supplier, etc.
• Maintain supplier contact information and correspondence records in SalesForce.
• Manage a wide variety of commodities including machined parts, electronics, and optics to support the build schedule.
• Report status of supplies to internal customers as necessary.
• Assist in evaluation of new and current suppliers.
• Participate in the New Product Development process to support new product projects.
• Discuss defective or unacceptable goods or services with inspection, vendors, manufacturing engineers, and others to determine disposition and corrective action.
• Work with finance and suppliers to resolve invoicing discrepancies.
• Read and interpret drawings/blueprints and related specifications.
• Other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

None

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Associates degree or program certificate; or 3+ years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Lean Manufacturing experience preferred.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to negotiate and write contracts.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts and interest, analyze quotations and quantify requirements using MRP calculations.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

None

COMPUTER SKILLS

Intermediate to Advanced Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel and Outlook.

MRP skills in a Manufacturing environment required.

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 may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This position requires the incumbent to stand, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl occasionally and regularly requires walking, sitting, talking, and using hands to finger, handle or feel. The employee may occasionally lift up to 10 pounds. The employee will be required to use a computer and talk on the phone.

Specific vision abilities required by this job are close, distance, color and peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate in an office environment. (Examples: business office with computers and/or computer printers, light traffic).