ANDRITZ

Procurement Specialist

ANDRITZ

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Pointe-Claire • 🇨🇦 Canada

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Source and negotiate pricing with suppliers;
  • Manage, issue and revise purchase orders (PO);
  • Notify suppliers of drawing revisions and their impacts on our PO’s;
  • Enforce and negotiate commercial terms & conditions and all contractual requirements;
  • Prepare offer evaluation comparative summaries and make recommendations;
  • Follow up on manufacturing or orders and acceleration requests from projects for deliveries;
  • Respond to or facilitate suppliers questions;
  • Communicate with Project team and engineers for project details (budgets, requisitions, specifications, delivery dates, etc.);
  • Follow procurement procedures and spending approval policy;
  • Work closely with accounts payables to reconcile invoices and provide supporting documentation;
  • Ensure suppliers have the appropriate documentation to proceed with work;
  • Ensure suppliers submit all required contractual and quality documentation;
  • Assist suppliers with validation of packing lists and their creation in LMS;
  • Negotiate vendor claims and change orders, as required;
  • Support the field site teams for urgent purchases;
  • Reporting as required by department or senior management;
  • Cross functional training as required;
  • Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in a similar purchasing role;
  • Experience with shop fabrication, steel purchase, machining, welding, etc;
  • Ability to read shop/mechanical drawings, an asset;
  • Demonstrated / recognized experience in negotiating prices and terms and conditions;
  • Experience with SAP purchasing software, an asset;
  • Experience with purchase of materials, parts (motors-pump-bearings-seals-hardware…) and services in the hydro industry, an asset;
  • Ability to search web for new suppliers or products;
  • Ability to be autonomous and sometimes have to work with a minimum of information;
  • Intermediate to Advanced level of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel;
  • Ability to priorities tasks and work under pressure;
  • Ability to deal with changes in order of priorities;
  • Excellent communication skills;
  • Demonstrated positive relationships with internal/external customers;
  • Knowledge of market trends and purchasing best practices;
  • Employs fair, ethical and transparent procurement practices;
  • Proficiency in English and French (Written-Spoken).
Benefits
  • Life, disability, dental and extended health insurance;
  • Pension plan;
  • Hybrid work mode;
  • Performance share plan;
  • Employee assistance program;
  • Employee individualized training and career plan.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
negotiating pricespurchase ordersreading mechanical drawingsSAP purchasing softwarepurchasing materialsshop fabricationmachiningweldingreportingcross functional training
Soft skills
communication skillsability to prioritize tasksability to work under pressureautonomyrelationship buildingadaptability to changesethical procurement practicestransparencyproblem-solvingteam collaboration