What are the responsibilities and job description for the Buyer position at NVENIA?
nVenia, part of the Duravant family of companies, is a leading manufacturer of automated packaging equipment, integrated packaging systems, and aftermarket solutions. Built on the trusted brands of Arpac, Fischbein, Hamer, and Ohlson, nVenia helps customers across consumer goods, food and beverage, industrial, and other industries improve productivity and operational performance through innovative, customer-focused packaging solutions.
Combining deep industry expertise with Duravant's global resources, nVenia is committed to delivering exceptional customer experiences through innovation, operational excellence, and collaboration.
Why Work at nVenia?
- nVenia offers a competitive benefits package for all full-time employees, including:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) or Health Savings Accounts (HSA), when allowed by tax law
- Paid life insurance and disability insurance, with options to purchase additional coverage
- Paid Maternity/Paternity Leave
- Optional coverages: Long-term Care, Accident Insurance, and Critical Illness Insurance
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Educational Assistance reimbursement
- Accrued Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 10 paid holidays annually
POSITION SUMMARY
The Buyer is responsible for purchasing material, parts, components, assemblies, and MRO utilized in Production and Aftermarket business. Responsibilities include quoting, placing orders, returns to suppliers, confirming orders,
expediting delivery and communicating schedule changes to operations and sales.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
• Process orders including sending PO’s and confirmations.
• Follow up with suppliers.
• Confirm pricing.
• Expedite orders.
• Reconciling invoicing issues.
• Perform timely resolution of past due purchase orders to meet departmental goals.
• Assist with monitoring, tracking, and providing feedback on supplier’s performance, price, delivery, quality, and responsiveness.
• Quickly and efficiently process supplier quality returns.
• Ensure prompt communication of schedule changes throughout Operations, Sales and Lifecycle Services.
• Work with cross functional teams including shipping, stockroom, accounting, production, and planning.
• Communicate Bill of Material discrepancies to Engineering.
• Report inventory discrepancies to Warehouse Manager.
• Projects and other responsibilities as directed by manager.
POSITION REQUIREMENTS
• Associate or bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Minimum 2 years purchasing experience in a manufacturing environment.
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PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS |
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Frequently required to sit, stand, walk, talk or hear; uses hands to finger, handle, or touch objects or controls. On occasion, may be required to climb and work in high places, stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders. The incumbent must occasionally lift, push, or pull up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. |
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WORK ENVIRONMENT |
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The position is an office-based position with visits to the manufacturing area. In the manufacturing area, employees may be exposed to moving mechanical parts and may occasionally be exposed to fumes and/or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but at times loud. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function. |
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION |
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nVenia is a packaging machinery manufacturing and service organization widely known to have the widest selection of packaging technology under one roof and is dedicated to providing our distributors and end-users the highest quality product and support. nVenia brings Duravant packaging leaders Arpac, Hamer-Fischbein and Ohlson Packaging together to create next-level packaging equipment integration and innovation. One name, in one location, with one shared focus: our customers and the problems we need to solve. |
Salary : $60,000 - $70,000