Buyer

About the role

At Parker, we play a pivotal role in applications that change our world. We are in almost everything that moves, with a wide range of technologies including in the clean tech space, helping customers solve complex engineering challenges. We seek team players who share our purpose of enabling engineering breakthroughs that lead to a better tomorrow.

Responsibilities

• Apply basic purchasing principles, theories, and concepts to acquire products or services from known sources of supply.
• Ensure timely acquisitions and resolve issues related to requisition accuracy, on-time delivery, or supplier payment in a closely supervised environment.
• Identify and recommend suppliers by investigating potential sources, researching parts, equipment, machinery, services, and materials availability.
• Conduct supplier site visits and evaluate them based on production capability, performance, delivery, and other key business criteria.
• Complete supplier certification as part of a technical and/or quality team when required.
• Purchase parts, equipment, and materials by preparing request for quotations and submitting purchase orders with approved suppliers.
• Issue purchase orders and agreements that accurately reflect negotiated price, schedule, terms, and conditions.
• Maintain accurate lead times for assigned commodities.
• Evaluate bids for standard and non-standard items.
• Select suppliers for lower cost or limited scope items and negotiate price, delivery, quality, and service.
• Develop alternate sources of supply by identifying and researching prospective suppliers.
• Monitor and evaluate supplier performance.
• Advise appropriate personnel of impending supplier failures that may delay production or delivery.
• Resolve shipment quality discrepancies by mediating supplier/manufacturing issues.
• Facilitate issue resolution by arranging and participating in conferences between suppliers and company personnel.
• Negotiate and settle damage claims, rejections, losses, returns, over-shipments, cancellations, and engineering changes with suppliers.
• Provide parts, equipment, and materials information by answering questions and requests.
• Prepare reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
• Participate in continuous improvement activities and suggest cost reduction and efficiency improvements.
• Comply with federal, state, and aerospace industry regulations; ensure adherence to requirements and advise management on needed actions.
• Comply with Government/Commercial Practices Manual (GPM/CPM) policies and procedures.

Requirements

• 4-year college degree in Supply Chain Management or a relevant discipline.
• Experience and/or exposure to supply chain concepts, methodologies, and manufacturing through internships or training programs.
• Intermediate computer skills and ability to understand electronic processing.
• Analytical and technical skills to understand business practices and recommend automation opportunities.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills for effective interface with internal and external contacts.

Benefits

• Solid employer with over 100 years of market presence.
• Career growth and internal hiring opportunities.
• Collaborative and empowered work environment centered on team spirit.
• Company values that encourage trust, respect, collaboration, and professional growth.
• Open environment that values and encourages new ideas.
• Attractive compensation packages designed to hire and retain top industry talent.

Physical Demands/Work Environment

• Frequently required to hear and speak.
• Regularly stand, walk, sit, and use hands to grasp and handle.
• Occasionally lift up to 40 lbs.
• Regularly bend, stoop, and stretch when handling parts/objects.
• Specific vision requirements include close vision, focus ability, and depth perception.
• May be exposed to oils, dirt, fumes, and moving equipment.
• Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.