Job Title: Buyer

Department: Base Operations & Maintenance

Job Summary:

The Buyer will be responsible for identifying suppliers, researching goods and services, processing purchase orders, and verifying delivered items. To be successful as a purchasing agent you should be able to critically assess suppliers, products, and services, and negotiate the best possible deals. Ultimately, an outstanding purchasing agent has a keen sense of business and maintains meticulous transaction records.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Purchases a broad, highly mixed and/or technical category of parts, materials, equipment, and supplies, which may involve contract negotiations, material deviation, and other complex considerations

• Maintains procurement records, including bid documents, titles, and maintenance records

• Initiates and coordinates discussions or meetings between suppliers and departments to resolve procurement-related problems

• Analyzes pricing, production, and inventory trends to assure competent supply sources and economical procurement, conducts market surveys to identify new sources of supply

• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with salespersons, vendors, and customers

• Evaluate and negotiate with potential suppliers based on their product quality, cost, delivery times, payment terms and customer service

• Tracks availability and quality of subcontracted work, including material supply, scheduling, and scrap

• Reconciles receiving transactions for correct product and quantity. Communicates discrepancies to vendor, seeks resolution favorable to the company, and mitigates future discrepancy

• Performs disposition of defective material and arranges refund or credit

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Proficient written and oral communication skills according to skill requirements

• Possess strong computer skills, able to read, write, and comprehend written instructional documents

• Ability to function well in a high-paced and at times stressful environment

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals

• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs

• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume

• Ability to apply concepts of introductory algebra and geometry

• Proficient Microsoft Office productivity suite

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent

• At least two years of related experience required

• Certificate of Supply Chain of Procurement from Association for Supply Chain Management preferred

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer

• Occasional periods of prolonged exposure to loud noises

• Ability to lift up to 25 pounds at times

• Ability to stand, walk, and reach with arms and hands as necessary

• Ability to hear and see to position and safety requirement levels

• Occasional exposure to elements such as heat, cold, noise, dust, dirt, and chemicals

Special Qualifications/Requirements:

• Must be able to successfully pass as required a federal, state, or local government's background investigation

• NOTE: Sub-contracts experience is desirable and government contracts knowledge is a plus.

Disclaimer:

The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time; or the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

Job Description last Updated: 07/25/2022