Job Description

We are a structural manufacturing company seeking a Buyer that has a solid manufacturing background with steel sourcing knowledge to add to our team.      

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Reviews requests for assigned materials, parts and/or services and verifies specifications.
• Source raw material, components or services and ensures timely preparation and communication of RFQ
• Corresponds with approved suppliers to obtain price, specifications, and delivery information.
• Analyzes and evaluates bids to determine optimum value.
• Negotiates price and delivery; selects supplier and places purchase orders while assuring compliance to Operating Procedures and Ethical Code of Conduct
• Expedites delivery of items by contacting suppliers and ensuring that materials, supplies, and equipment are sent on specified shipping date.
• Ensures that a PO is created correctly (Supplier info, material, quantity, etc.) and follows up with issues related to PO creation.
• Track purchase order status by reviewing daily activity reports and resolve any past due orders, invoicing errors, or interruptions in supply.
• Works with operations and quality to establish product integrity, performance, and delivery measures to be used in evaluating supplier performance in assigned area.
• Identifies cost savings opportunities and assists in developing innovative approaches to purchasing management to achieve yearly cost reduction targets set by executive team.
• Provides resolution on material returns, over-shipments, cancellations, and engineering changes with suppliers.
• Escalation of complex issues to Procurement Leader

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum of 3 year of procurement experience within a manufacturing environment.
• ERP experience required (Peachtree/Sage or Misys experience preferred)
• Experience with Microsoft Office – Excel / Word / Outlook
• Proficient with packet buying.
• Working knowledge of MRP, outside services, and fasteners

·         Read and understand blueprints/drawings.

·         Understand structural steel and hardware.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Solid judgement and strategic thinking, with ability to make good decisions.
• Excellent communication
• Capable of managing multiple priorities and projects at the same time in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong people skills with the ability to negotiate and sustain networking relationships.
• Mathematically inclined.
• Supply chain workflow understanding. (Procurement, inventory, shipping / receiving, A/P and A/R)

Company Description

Engineered Custom Solutions for Railroad, Oilfield, Telecommunication, Solar, Government, and Other Industries Electro-Mechanical Industries, Inc. was founded in 1999 with the vision of providing a reliable solution to clients' problems. Our design team has been working alongside our clients providing new solutions to the challenges facing changing industries. We serve the railroad, oilfield, telecommunication, solar, waste water, government, and other industries. We are a design and fabrication company that provides towers for communications and solar applications, platforms for houses and equipment cabinets, structural skids for oilfield applications, cable management systems, drag chains, cabinets and boxes for multiple applications such as DAS and many other products that we have designed.