Job Description

We have an outstanding Contract position for a Buyer to join a leading Company located in the Glendale, AZ surrounding area.

Responsibilities:

• Managing procurement of materials and services to support quality, delivery, and cost requirements
• Requires application of basic purchasing principles, theories, and concepts
• Ensuring timely acquisitions of products or services from known sources of supply
• Resolving issues in the areas of requisition accuracy and completeness, on-time delivery, and supplier payment
• This position reports directly to the Supply Chain Manager
• Purchases parts, equipment, and materials by preparing requests for quotations and submitting purchase orders with approved suppliers
• Issues purchase orders and agreements that accurately reflect price, schedule, terms, and conditions as negotiated with suppliers
• Plans, schedules, and manages production capacity load to ensure maximum on-time delivery
• Responsible for maintenance and accuracy of open purchase orders, quotes, work orders, and part master data
• Maintains accurate lead times for assigned commodities
• Monitors and evaluates production execution to plan and supplier performance
• Advises appropriate personnel of production issues or impending supplier failure to fulfill contractual agreements that may delay production or delivery
• Resolves shipment quality discrepancies by mediating supplier/manufacturing issues
• Facilitates the resolution of issues by arranging and participating in conferences between suppliers and company personnel
• Negotiates and settles damage claims, rejections, losses, return of materials, over-shipments, cancellations and engineering changes with suppliers
• Provides parts, equipment, and materials information by answering questions and requests
• Prepares reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends
• Maintains a variety of schedules, records, and reports pertaining to the tracking of materials through the production cycle and the availability of production resources
• Assists in executing requisite system transactions needed to support the receipt, storage, and transferringof material
• Responsible for inventory levels
• Generates tracking reports and performs data entry as required
• Participates in continuous improvement activities and provides suggestions for cost reduction and efficiency improvements
• Participates in developing alternate sources of supply by identifying and researching prospective suppliers
• Participates in supplier site visits and evaluates them as to production capability, performance, delivery, and other key business criteria
• May complete supplier certification as part of a technical and/or quality team
• Complies with federal, state, and aerospace industry regulations; ensures adherence to requirements and advises management on needed actions
• Complies with Government/Commercial Practices Manual (GPM/CPM) policies and procedures

Basic Hiring Criteria:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or a related field and has passed the majority (3 or more) of the CPIM national certification exams, OR is CPIM certified
• Demonstrated ability to perform the essential functions of the job typically acquired through six or more years of related experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Thorough knowledge of manufacturing resources planning theories, principles, and industry practices
• Thorough knowledge of manufacturing resource planning systems, business application software, and interface operations
• Ability to effectively assess and implement continuous improvement methods (e.g. pull systems, process mapping, JIT)
• Knowledge of legal, regulatory, and internal policy requirements related to production control
• Ability to work on a variety of problems of diverse scope and complexity where analysis and evaluation of various outcomes require tradeoffs
• Ability to solve a wide range of difficultproblems in imaginative and practical ways and evaluate alternative solutions that may require coordination across multiple teams
• Ability to establish goals and objectives to complete projects
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret policies and recommend changes to procedures
• Ability to effectively communicate and present information to team members, team leaders, and top management
• Ability to respond to significant inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to effectively demonstrate team member competencies and participate in goal setting, performance feedback, and self-development activities

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