Quality Engineer
Coopers Fire
ERP
Purchasing Manager
Flex
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Henrico • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United States
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SeniorLead
About the role
- Oversee procurement of Direct & Indirect materials, parts, components and equipment
- Direct and coordinate activities of personnel engaged in procurement consistent with delivery requirements and quality specifications
- Prepare instructions regarding purchasing systems and procedures and establish goals for purchasing department
- Follow-up policies and procedures for the operation of procurement activities
- Manage and guide a team of buyers and expeditors to meet procurement and supplier management goals
- Interface with procurement groups in updating and maintaining company procurement strategies
- Implement processes with suppliers to improve on time delivery and Purchase Price Variance
- Help implement Vendor Managed Inventory models
- Supervise the team in the management of the supply chain to achieve continuous timely supply of parts and services
- Approve purchase orders and change notices through subordinates and review purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to company policy
- Ensure continuity of raw material supply to support production schedules while balancing inventory level targets
- Investigate inventory levels and help manage excess and obsolete material
- Conduct supplier performance reviews and help the team maintain consistent on time delivery and quality
- Keep senior management informed of present/future trends in availability and cost of materials, components and equipment
- Monitor on-time supplier deliveries, inventory turns, MRP execution, Purchase Price Variance, processing time reduction, supplier performance and cost investigation
- Act as first point of escalation with suppliers and communicate unresolved issues to the Supply Chain Director
- Ensure purchasing compliance to corporate directives and implement HR strategies to recruit and retain qualified workforce
Requirements
- Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with procurement and purchasing functions
- Minimum 5 years' experience of people management/leading teams
- Demonstrates expert functional, technical and people and/or process management skills
- Supplier (external and internal) relationship skills
- Demonstrates detailed expertise in very complex functional/technical area or broad breadth of knowledge in multiple areas
- Knowledge and understanding with experience in an engineered-to-order (ETO) manufacture facility
- Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures or governmental regulations
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of clients, suppliers, senior management, and the public
- Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry
- Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions
- Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables
Benefits
- Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
- Life Insurance
- Short-term and Long-term Disability
- Matching 401(k) Contributions
- Vacation and Paid Sick Time
- Tuition Reimbursement
ATS Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
procurementpurchasingsupplier managementVendor Managed Inventoryinventory managementPurchase Price VarianceMRP executiondata analysisreport writingmathematical concepts
Soft skills
people managementteam leadershiprelationship managementcommunicationproblem-solvinganalytical skillspresentation skillsorganizational skillsstrategic thinkingdecision making
