Buyer

What Is In It For You

• Interact and work directly with a multi-disciplinary team
• Professional development – be part of a team that values your contributions and recognizes the impact you make on the business
• In addition to statutory holidays and vacation, receive five paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• Attractive compensation package including:
  • Competitive salary
  • Comprehensive benefits – health, medical, dental, vision, paramedical, HSA
  • Company-match pension

Cool Projects Designed and Built

• Hoists for the world’s second heaviest on-shore lifter at 13,000 tons
• High speed winches and control system for a 2,000-foot artificial surfing pool
• Gate hoists on the largest infrastructure project in Canada
• Mechanical stage device for Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas
• Shaft sinking winches with 110,000 lbs line pull for mining projects in Australia
• Mooring and riser pull-in systems for multiple offshore energy projects world-wide
• Hoists for aqueduct construction which supplies 50% of drinking water to New York City
• A cable tensioning system that sets up the Artemis Emergency Egress System at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

What You Will Do

• Review all requisitions and product or service demands for completeness, description, appropriate approval, delivery date and account numbers
• Solicit quotations and ensure appropriate credit is received
• Direct and procure vendor technical and operating expertise as required to appropriate internal personnel
• Negotiate, place orders and enter into contracts for procurement as necessary for required materials and services to ensure timely delivery
• Negotiate competitive freight rates
• Develop sourcing strategies
• Contact supplier to follow-up on material and components, production progress and shipments
• Coordinate shipments and monitor delivery schedules and shipment
• Review and approve supplier invoices for material deliveries against purchase order requirements
• Review material receiving reports against shipping documents to verify all material has been received per purchase order

Who You Are

• You thrive on challenging yourself to grow and want to work with a team that will push you, trust you, and hold you accountable
• Intellectually curious, passionate about learning and being the best
• Sense of urgency, highly responsive and oriented towards action
• Can-do attitude, and respond in all situations with a positive and energized attitude
• Previous purchasing experience in a manufacturing environment
• Experience with custom order products; steel and outside vendor coordination an asset
• Responsiveness to requests for information, proven sense of urgency
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize, and effectively manage assignments
• Proven ability to establish and maintain business relationships
• Ability to think strategically with excellent quantitative skills