Responsibilities

Our Festus, MO Plant is looking for an experienced Purchasing Coordinator to join our manufacturing team.

• Responsible to work with both operations and maintenance to assure production and quality goals are achieved without interruption for lack of materials or services.
• Assure the supply of adequate spare parts inventory, while monitoring spare parts inventory dollar levels.
• Must also require that the storeroom keep adequate records for reordering of supplies for inventory.
• Will prepare and process requisitions and purchase orders for supplies and equipment.
• Will supervise Storeroom Supervisor.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree is preferred
• 3-5 years of experience
• Must be able to plan, organize, manage and evaluate purchasing activities and the budget of an organization
• Must comply with the organization's purchasing policies, procedures, standards and strategies in order to ensure process transparency, fairness, impartiality and confidentiality
• Must possess the following skills in: negotiation, persuasion, supervision, active listening, learning, critical thinking and ethical behavior