Buyer/Purchaser

Purchase Order Activities

• Prepare purchase orders and send copies to suppliers and departments.
• Determine if inventory quantities are sufficient, ordering more materials when necessary.
• Validate quantities of purchased products.
• Aid in count verification and coverage for other purchasers.

Inventory and Scheduling

• Review requisition orders to verify accuracy, terminology, and specifications.
• Prepare, maintain, and review purchasing files, reports, and price lists.
• Compare prices, specifications, and delivery dates to determine the best supplier.
• Track the status of requisitions, contracts, purchase orders, invoices, and credit memos.
• Calculate costs of orders and charge or forward invoices to appropriate accounts.
• Secure and analyze quotations; negotiate prices and terms with suppliers; recommend suppliers based on cost, quality, and delivery competitiveness.

Supplier and Customer Interaction

• Work with Production Control Manager and Inventory Control Supervisor to support sourcing programs.
• Support Procurement in seeking alternate suppliers.
• Respond to customer and supplier inquiries about order status, changes, or cancellations.
• Contact suppliers to schedule or expedite deliveries and resolve shortages, missed or late deliveries, and other problems.

Organizational and Administrative Skills

• Work on multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Show excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Show good organization and administrative skills.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• Sit, stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear.
• Occasionally climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• Lift a minimum of 25 lbs and 26 to 150 lbs with assistance of equipment.
• Exposure to moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of electrical shock.
• Regular use of safety glasses and steel-toed shoes.
• Limited use of respirator.
• Regular exposure to noise level ranging from minimal to loud.
• Regularly working in a lead-contaminated area and must wear a uniform and safety shoes in that area to prevent the tracking and/or possible lead contamination of other clean areas or outside the regulated areas or the facility.