Purchaser

Responsibilities

• Seek reliable vendors and suppliers to provide quality goods and raw materials at reasonable prices, while maintaining successful relationships, and upholding these vendors and suppliers to RESCo's quality standards.
• Manage daily purchasing activities, negotiating prices and contracts, while developing and implementing purchasing strategies.
• Review technical specifications for raw materials, components, tooling, and equipment.
• Maintain the supplier database, purchase records and specifications, and related documentation.
• Cookordination with the inventory and production departments to maintain sufficient raw and finished goods inventory.
• Facilitate the proper processing of purchases by generating and validating purchase orders.
• Cookordinate with the engineering and production departments to examine and validate raw materials demand, validating materials are ordered to correct specifications required by production, engineering, and quality.
• Prepare cost estimates and release schedules to operations on current and future purchases and/or requisitions.
• Receipt of good entry in EPR system
• Assume responsibility of contacting supplier regarding returns and/or replacements
• Cookordinate with Accounting staff and suppliers regarding pricing/quantity discrepancies
• Answering phones - 2nd tier
• Print work orders and part blueprints
• Counting raw materials and proficiency with understanding the materials being ordered and received
• Counting and producing finished good inventory for Fabrication Shop
• Maintain and review Vendor Logistics and Parts to Purchase Boards in Access. Assume responsibility of contacting supplier when items are late or need to be expedited.
• Closing purchase orders when orders are fulfilled

Qualifications

• A high school diploma or equivalent
• At least 5 years of working experience in a manufacturing environment
• At least 3 years of purchasing/requisitioning experience
• Quality assurance experience is a plus
• Strong communication skills
• Attentive to detail
• Strong organizational and planning skills
• Strong critical thinking and negotiation skills
• Deep knowledge of inventory and supply chain management
• Proficient in Office365 and ERP utilization
• Capable of handling multiple projects
• Minimum of 3 years' experience in technical, manufacturing, or logistics field
• Minimum of 2 years' Procurement experience
• Highly proficient in ERP systems
• Analytical and communication skills
• Results driven and self-motivated

Pay

Reliable offers a competitive benefits package which includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription, PTO, 401K with match, STD, LTD, Life Insurance and much more.

Schedule

Normal business hours are 8-4:30pm.