Buyer

ASSA ABLOY • Peachtree City, GA

10d • Onsite

About The Position

ASSA ABLOY’s Hangar Large Applications Doors (HLAD), part of the Entrance Systems Division and located in Peachtree City, Georgia, is seeking a detail-oriented Buyer. HLAD designs, manufactures, installs, and services large-opening solutions worldwide, including hangar, shipyard, industrial, vertical lifting fabric, craneway, and dock doors.

The Buyer oversees strategic and tactical procurement of raw materials, parts, components, equipment, and corporate services. The role manages end-to-end purchasing through approved vendors, uses Epicor MRP to plan and track purchases, develops suppliers, and maintains healthy inventory turns throughout the product lifecycle. The Buyer coordinates with manufacturing, engineering, quality, accounting, and sales to align sourcing with production schedules, product requirements, quality metrics, and financial goals.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• 3–5 years of progressive buyer experience managing specialized technical items, custom configurations, and lower-volume, long-lead supplier bases.
• Understanding of extended global supply chains, international trade regulations, logistics networks, and tariff management.
• Functional proficiency with ERP/MRP database software.
• Intermediate-to-advanced Microsoft Office proficiency, particularly Excel data compilation.
• Ability to work across a diverse organization and translate constraints between corporate offices and fabrication floors.
• Strong organizational and self-prioritization skills, with emotional poise in a deadline-driven environment.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to the Epicor platform.
• Direct procurement knowledge or industrial-market experience sourcing raw steel or aluminum components.
• Experience contracting custom complex fabrications, outsourced assemblies, or heavy industrial toll operations.
• Familiarity with purchasing electronic components, hardware assemblies, or integrated control systems.
• Continuing professional education or a degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, or Business.

Responsibilities

• Procure custom components, raw materials, capital equipment, supplies, and operational services needed for manufacturing.
• Interpret production schedules to determine material requirements and generate and track purchase orders through Epicor MRP, balancing safe stock with inventory-turn targets.
• Establish, audit, and optimize planning architecture, supplier records, and inventory replenishment variables in Epicor.
• Work with Production, Engineering, Accounting, Quality, and Sales to correct Bills of Materials, identify production costs, improve incoming material quality, and protect delivery expectations.
• Use Lean methodologies to identify and eliminate stagnant, excess, or obsolete materials.
• Drive inventory-reduction plans to improve free cash flow and capital utilization.
• Prepare RFQ packages, source competitive bids, and audit supplier purchasing agreements to achieve appropriate quality-to-cost outcomes.
• Support planning, validation, and physical audits during annual comprehensive inventory cycles.
• Manage and report sourcing metrics that contribute to departmental KPIs, including inventory velocity, purchase price variance, and supplier quality, logistics, and service performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED