Position Summary :

Buyer responsible for vendor selection and procurement functions directly associated with the company's needs for electrical and mechanical production materials and services. These products and services are to be secured with a focus on total cost (price/cost, quality, and delivery levels) consistent with company policy and performance standards. The position is further responsible for but not limited to the timely planning and delivery scheduling of materials, supplier quality, and reporting and tracking of department KPI's.

Essential Job Functions :

- Represent purchasing on various project teams consisting of Drive Systems, Research and Development, Engineering, Sales, and Quality Control

- Ability to read and interpret drawings, and ability to actively participate on project teams

- Provide follow up information to company teams to modify designs of products having components entering obsolescence

- Assist Supply Chain Manager in the establishment and development of relationships with key suppliers and participate in major negotiations to ensure agreements are made which meet the companies- business needs

- Generate and maintain complete and accurate purchasing records to facilitate future purchasing decisions

- Responsible for the purchase and on-time delivery of project and commodity requirements

- Evaluate quotations, negotiate purchase price, elect final supplier and place purchase order of engineering approved electrical components meeting quality and delivery requirements

- Work with suppliers to understand and communicate drawing and BOM interpretations to eliminate receiving non-conforming products

- Manage and evaluate supplier performance to assure that procurement meets cost, quality and 100% on time delivery

- Understand and communicate quality requirements to the supplier to ensure compliance to these requirements

- Review purchase orders for accuracy to specifications, drawings and current revision level

- Assist accounting on invoice discrepancies in order to insure timely payment to the suppliers

- Communicate and work with support organizations to ensure all requirements, such as certifications, test reports and miscellaneous documentation are incorporated into the purchase order

- Identify areas of improvement of purchasing methods, cost effective purchasing, and identify daily PO releases having savings opportunities and economies of order placement

- Monitor Blanket Purchase orders for continuous flow of products

- Develop knowledge of electro-mechanical components to identify and investigate errors in PO releases

- Other duties as assigned

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