Purchasing Manager

Drylock Technologies LTD•Eau Claire, WI

16d•Onsite

About The Position

Drylock Technologies in Eau Claire, WI is looking for a Purchasing Manager to support purchasing activity tied to more than $100 million in corporately sourced raw materials, while also leading local purchasing follow-through, MRO inventory performance, parts room organization, and maintenance service levels. This is a true player-coach leadership role—ideal for someone who can partner with corporate sourcing, lead a purchasing team, improve supplier and order follow-through, stabilize the parts room, and stay close enough to the work to remove barriers for maintenance, production, and operations. This role sits at the intersection of purchasing, materials support, and plant execution. The position supports purchasing activity connected to more than $100 million in corporately sourced raw materials through the purchasing team, while also taking on a meaningful MRO and parts room improvement challenge. The successful leader will help bring more structure, accuracy, ownership, and service discipline to a busy parts room environment that directly impacts maintenance readiness, downtime response, and production support.

Requirements

5–10+ years of experience in manufacturing purchasing, materials, supply chain, MRO, maintenance stores, inventory, or plant operations leadership
Experience leading or supporting purchasing teams, supplier follow-up, purchase order execution, expediting, and internal customer service
Ability to work with corporate sourcing, plant operations, maintenance, production, warehouse, and suppliers to resolve material and purchasing issues
Hands-on experience improving a parts room, storeroom, MRO inventory, or plant materials function where processes, layout, ownership, inventory accuracy, and service levels needed to be strengthened
Strong understanding of critical spares, min/max planning, cycle counts, inventory accuracy, replenishment processes, and ERP/MRP transaction discipline
Leadership or supervisory experience in an operational setting
SAP experience is helpful

Nice To Haves

Have led purchasing, materials, supply chain, MRO, storeroom, maintenance inventory, or plant materials functions in manufacturing
Understand how purchasing execution, supplier responsiveness, raw material support, and order follow-through impact production performance
Can partner effectively with corporate sourcing while keeping local plant needs visible and moving forward
Know how to create order in a busy parts room where availability, accuracy, labeling, storage discipline, and responsiveness all need to improve without losing urgency or customer service
Can lead people while staying close enough to the work to remove barriers and improve daily execution
Communicate well with purchasing, maintenance, production, warehouse, suppliers, and corporate sourcing

Responsibilities

Support the purchasing team responsible for corporately sourced raw materials
Partner with corporate sourcing, suppliers, operations, maintenance, and production to keep materials, parts, and services moving
Improve purchasing follow-through, order discipline, delivery visibility, supplier responsiveness, and escalation processes
Stabilize and improve the MRO parts room as a key operational priority, including creating better organization, clearer ownership, stronger inventory discipline, and more reliable support for maintenance and production
Strengthen parts availability, inventory accuracy, storage organization, and service expectations for maintenance and production support
Leadership of the purchasing team supporting corporately sourced raw materials and related purchasing activity
Local purchasing execution, including purchase orders, supplier follow-up, delivery tracking, expediting, issue resolution, and internal customer support
Partnership with corporate sourcing to align plant needs, raw material requirements, supplier communication, and purchasing priorities
MRO parts room leadership, including improving organization, accountability, service expectations, transaction discipline, labeling, storage practices, follow-through, and day-to-day issue resolution
MRO inventory strategy, including addressing excess, obsolete, hard-to-find, duplicated, or poorly classified parts while strengthening critical spares, min/max levels, cycle counts, replenishment discipline, and inventory accuracy
Parts availability and responsiveness to maintenance work orders, urgent repairs, planned shutdowns, and production support needs
Daily leadership of buyers and parts room team members with clear expectations, coaching, communication, and accountability