Buyer

About the role

Bering-Alakaʻina Holdings, LLC is looking for a Buyer to support Facilities Operations & Maintenance (O&M) for our government customer located in NORCO, California. The candidate will provide purchasing and acquisition support for the facilities maintenance team, focusing on corrective and preventative maintenance work orders for HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and industrial systems supporting real property and equipment in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Research, quote, and purchase parts, materials, equipment, and outside service support to facilitate facilities maintenance team completion of corrective and preventative maintenance work orders.
• Support special projects and efforts with research, quotes, vendor coordination, and facility access to acquire service support for equipment, assets, vehicles, industrial machinery, and building systems.
• Interface with staff to ensure all purchase requisitions for materials are completed and submitted in a timely manner.
• Work with the Program Manager (PM) and Facilities Supervisor/Production Controller (FM/PC) and government stakeholders to create bid packages for special projects.
• Submit Purchase Authorization requests to government stakeholders and/or the Program Manager and track requests through final disposition.
• Ensure parts, materials, and services ordered are received, inventoried, and distributed to technicians for installation/repair in coordination with the Warehouse Specialist.
• Negotiate and acquire best pricing from vendors.
• Work closely with the corporate purchasing department to ensure company purchasing/acquisition policies and procedures are strictly followed.
• Establish and maintain records of supporting vendors, accounts, receipts, and purchase authorization approvals.
• Track purchases made, purchases authorized, and total amount obligated against government funding and report data weekly.
• Reconcile monthly customer invoice against purchases to identify purchases billed versus yet to be billed.
• Coordinate logistics for incoming freight and containers with the warehouse specialist.
• Generate daily, weekly, and monthly inventory data reports.
• Work closely with the PM and FS/PC to reduce aging and time-sensitive inventory for the program.
• Work closely with PM, FS/PC, and trades leads to ensure critical spares inventories are maintained and current.
• Keep the PM and Facilities Supervisor apprised of unique situations and problems encountered.
• Assist in performing monthly safety inspections as required.
• Perform other related duties as assigned by the PM and Facilities Supervisor/Production Controller.

Requirements

• High school diploma and three (3) years of experience performing purchasing and procurement duties.
• Minimum three (3) years of experience in a purchasing/procurement/acquisition role.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and SharePoint.
• Strong communication skills internally with staff and externally with government stakeholders.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to manually track purchase requests through receipt of parts, materials, and services across many concurrent projects, efforts, and taskings.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.

Qualifications

• Experience providing parts and materials acquisition support in a Facilities Maintenance or Industrial/Commercial maintenance environment is a plus.
• Parts, materials, and supply acquisition experience in support of a federal government contract is a plus.

Pay

$65,000 - $80,000. The compensation range provided is a good faith estimate at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined based on qualifications, experience, skills, internal equity, market conditions, and applicable laws.

Benefits

• Eligible employees enjoy a 401(k) plan with company match.
• Medical, dental, disability, and life insurance coverage.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Paid time off and 11 paid holidays.