Senior Buyer (Machining)
About The Position
The Senior Buyer (Machining) will manage sourcing and buying activities for a range of commodities including machined components, outside processes, forgings, castings, and other semi-finished products. This role requires interpreting engineering drawings and technical specifications to align sourcing activities with suppliers possessing optimal capabilities, ensuring manufacturability, quality, and cost efficiency. The position also involves reconciling invoice and payment problems, driving root cause solutions, identifying and implementing cost reduction activities, streamlining processes, ensuring continuity of supplies, and weighing risk factors in buy/supply decisions. Compliance with company standards and support for internal audits are also key responsibilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- 5+ years of experience in a buying and/or purchasing function
- Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
- This position entails access to export-controlled items and employment offers are conditioned upon an applicant's ability to lawfully obtain access to such items.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, economics, supply chain or engineering
- Strong organizational skills, ability to manage multiple large projects and interact with all organization levels
- Ability to read and interpret shop floor routers, technical drawings, and blueprints
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with multiple competing priorities
- Excellent negotiation skills with focus on cost reduction with demonstrated results
- Ability to perform should costing
- Familiar with standard cost/variable cost analysis
- Experience with procuring low volume, high mix, engineered MTO mechanical parts
- Solid understanding of common manufacturing processes and machines including mills, lathes, forgings, castings, heat treatment, coatings, etc.
- Demonstrated ability to manage and reduce inventory, single source risk mitigation, pay terms extension and year over year cost reduction
- Analytically oriented and able to effectively problem solve and deliver on objectives
- Strong proficiency with MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook) and related computer skills
Responsibilities
- Manage sourcing and buying activities across a range of commodities including machined components, outside processes (e.g. heat treat, coatings, etc.), forgings, castings, and other semi-finished products
- Interpret engineering drawings and technical specifications to align sourcing activities with suppliers possessing the optimal capabilities, ensuring manufacturability, quality, and cost efficiency
- Reconcile invoice and payment problems and drive root cause solutions
- Identify and implement cost reduction activities and streamlining processes
- Responsible for ensuring continuity of supplies and services required to maintain continuous operation
- Weighing appropriate risk factors when making buy/supply decisions
- Maintain compliance within company standards and support internal compliance and audits
- Implement corrective actions generated by audits
Benefits
- health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
- excellent 401k matching program
- paid holidays and vacation
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
