Description

Job Title: Purchasing Specialist

Department: Purchasing and Inventory

Reports To: Purchasing and Inventory Manager

FLSA Status: Exempt

Hours: M-F, 9:30am to 6pm, NO holidays or weekends

POSITION SUMMARY:

Manages inventories and oversees purchasing for all warehouses and customer orders.

Interacts daily with personnel on-site and at remote shipping locations, as well as the teams at the Customer Care Center, Sales Team and the Corporate Office.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES, AUTHORITIES AND EXPECTATIONS:

• Responsible for entering purchase orders for items needing to be ordered into SAGE100.
• Leverage bulk/quantity purchasing, when applicable, while maintaining targeted inventory turns by location.
• Maintain communication with Vendors re: orders via fax, phone, or email as needed. Follow up and checking on status when required.
• Order all standard stock items, backordered items, and not-in-stock items (except capital equipment, services, and commissions).
• Run re-order reports for all T.E.D. warehouses. Adjust and maintain order points.
• Work with vendors on overages, shortages, and damages to film, chemistry and other nondestructive testing equipment and materials.
• Responsible for contributing to building and maintaining employee, customer, and vendor relationships. Assist Accounting with film invoicing issues.
• Cross-trained with other team members to provide back-up when needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES:

Ability to learn and retain knowledge of TED products. Excellent oral/written communication skills. Knowledge of MS Office 2000/Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel), SAGE100 experience preferred. Excellent phone etiquette. Ability to multi-task. Customer service driven, teamwork-oriented, professional, upbeat, energetic, takes initiative, dependable, takes pride in work. Detail-oriented- performs in a manner that will prevent errors and omissions. Exemplify TED’s Core Values.

QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: Highschool Diploma or G.E.D. Minimum of 2 years’ experience preferred.

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating instructions, purchase orders and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, percent, and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

REASONING ABILITY: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms, and stoop, kneel or crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.

The intent of this position description is to provide a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by individuals assigned to this position. Individuals may be required to perform other tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.

The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job change.

Test Equipment Distributors is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.