Purchasing Specialist

Responsible for initiating, administrating, and closing manufacturing jobs. This includes purchasing materials and managing vendor relationships, managing inventory, and the day to day administration for manufacturing.

• Technical or business degree or equivalent combinations of technical and related experience.
• Six years material/equipment purchasing and expediting experience related to the construction industry, including purchasing experience.
• Advanced knowledge of procurement/vendor inspection techniques and requirements, accounting, financial management and business contract law required.
• Experience working in an ERP system

• Experience in a related field preferred.

• Requires excellent organizational, leadership, communication, and analytical skills
• Ability to effectively identify opportunities, develop focus, and provide tactical business solutions, often through the use of negotiation.
• Requires a positive attitude and the ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with management, employees and vendors.
• Advanced knowledge and skills in the use of various Microsoft Office applications including Word and Excel.
• Must maintain confidentiality and contribute to a team-oriented work environment.

• Encourage and maintain profitable relationships with various suppliers to meet facility production plans by coordinating deliveries, shipping schedules and work orders; Negotiates prices and terms with suppliers.
• Creating manufacturing jobs to add to the production schedule
• Purchase materials for both inside and outside jobs
• maintain full accountability for preparing manufacturing inventory, daily expected shipments, and past due items to determine quantities and order dates of materials to meet production schedule.
• Resolve material discrepancies, minimize freight expenditures and reconcile inventory records.
• Enter and maintain job costing for production flow and schedule.
• Enter and maintain shop production hours for job costing and shop payroll
• Maintain purchase order files, production job files and supplier files.
• Prepare and distribute job cost completion file and all pertinent reports and registers.
• Prepare various cost/statistical reports for management as required.
• Work with the Engineering department to ensure completeness and accuracy of BOM's
• Review of monthly WIP reports
• Create, manage and close jobs in the accounting system.
• Collaborate with accounts payable, sales, service department and outside vendors to ensure all purchasing requirements, problems, etc. are met/resolved.
• Ensure compliance of all department procedures, policies, and work rules.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

• competitive salary range
• 401k and matching after one month of employment
• Benefits available on day one of hire
  
  

• Background check, credit check, MVR and drug screen may be required (will vary by position).
• Disabled/Veterans. EEO/AAP