Buyer II

Coordinates activities involved with procuring goods and services such as aircraft parts, licenses/agreements, hardware, electronics, and raw material for the organization.

• Ensures that the inventory of materials is up to date and sufficient for current and upcoming jobs without building up excessive overstock
• Manages inventory levels, coordinating with buyers and materials forecasting and scheduling responsibilities.
• Runs open purchase order reports daily and revises expediting reports as needed.
• Contacts vendors to ensure that they are meeting their committed delivery dates.
• Communicates with the transportation company to preclude delays in transit.
• Develop metrics for managing delivery need dates.
• Work with program management and manufacturing departments and provide weekly updates.
• Update purchase order information to ensure data accuracy.
• Follow up with buyer/manager to ensure that the required information is clearly shared.
• Reviews and analyzes purchase requisitions to ensure clarity and completeness in description of materials, quantity and quality requirements, delivery requirements, mode of transportation and proper support documentation.
• Investigates and develops sources of supplies, prepares bid specifications, issues bid requests and reviews quotations.
• Analyze bid quotations for responsiveness to RFQ, evaluating factors such as price, delivery, financial status, technical capability, quality control and geographical location of shipping point
• Develop competitive sources of supply in accordance with best practices, company policies, procedures and government regulations.
• Make comparative analysis of price and delivery conditions, availability and quality of material and new sources of supply.
• Ensure selected vendors comply with purchasing standards, schedules and other requirements.
• Prepares and completes purchase orders.
• Resolve purchasing issues, including supplier progress and/or problems.
• Discusses defective or unacceptable goods or services with inspection or quality control personnel, users, vendors and others to determine source of issue and take corrective action.
• Works with accounting regarding invoice payments or questions.
• Knowledge of domestic and international standard procurement practices and procedures.
• Experience in export/import regulations, ITAR and knowledge of current incoterms.
• Some travel may be necessary.

Bachelor's Degree from college or university in a supply chain discipline;

Six years' experience

• Microsoft Windows, Word and Excel.
• Purchasing software, a plus Fluency in English, through both verbal and written communications
• Able to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume
• Able to apply concepts of basic algebra.
• Able to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form
• Able to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus.The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.